Yep the scripts are just a bunch of analytics - piwik and google - why would they use both, or any for that matter? Very good question! j On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Claude Almansi <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > Apart from the oddities noted by Marc Rontenberg in: > > On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Marc Rotenberg <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > According to the New York York Times, it was the Dept of > > Homeland Security (the same agency that brought us > > airport body scanners) that seized the BitTorrent site and others. > > This seems odd since it is the US Dept of Justice that would > > typically investigate copyright matters. > > > > Note also that this action took place prior to Senate action > > on COICA. > >(... > > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/27/technology/27torrent.html > > > > U.S. Shuts Down Web Sites in Piracy Crackdown > > By BEN SISARIO > > Published: November 26, 2010 > >(...) > > The seizure notice in <http://torrent-finder.com/> looks a bit > strange, and if you check the source, the page content boils down to: > > <div align="center"><img src="IPRC_Seized_2010_11.jpg" width="1024" > height="768" border="0"></div> > > and a bunch of scripts. > > Now - however immoral the US policy may be copyright-wise, one thing > US gov. agencies do is respect web accessibility guidelines. Banging > an image of text like said > <http://torrent-finder.com/IPRC_Seized_2010_11.jpg> on a page without > alternative description does not comply with these guidelines as > screen readers used by the blind and print-disabled cannot make head > or tail of such an image. The only thing a screen reader would read on > that page would be "This domain name has been seized by ICE dash > Homeland Security Investigations dash Internet Explorer", according to > the Fangs extension of Firefox. > > Could this not rather be a demo by torrent-finder.com and other > torrent search services against what new copyright enforcement might > do, rather than an actual copyright enforcement measure? > > Just wondering > > Claude > -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com Secretary - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org ---------------------------------------------------------------