Hi All, These take downs (the seven listed below) were a few months ago -- and all were taken down by their registries pursuant to court order. The current take downs are a different batch. Best, Kathy/PIR Thanks for the link Rafik. The ICE website (http://www.ice.gov/news/releases/1006/100630losangeles.htm) lists seven sites of which warrants were issued to seize their domain names: > "TVSHACK.NET, MOVIES-LINKS.TV, FILESPUMP.COM, NOW-MOVIES.COM, PLANETMOVIEZ.COM, THEPIRATECITY.ORG, and ZML.COM". > > The source code of these pages is not the same as that of torrent-finder.com. > > Amr Elsadr M.D. > Chief Operating Officer > Tele-Med International > http://www.telemedint.net > Tel: +2(023)534-6098 > Fax: +2(023)534-6029 > > -----Original Message----- > From: NCSG-NCUC [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Claude Almansi > Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 11:43 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: U.S. Government Seizes BitTorrent Search Engine Domain and More > > Thanks for the further info about a possible hoax, Rafik and Joly. > > I had not seen<http://grandgood.com/2010/11/27/domain-name-seizures-of-popular-rap-file-sharing-sites-potentially-an-elaborate-hoax/>. > However, re the slashdot comment it quotes about the registration of > torrent-finder.com, I am not sure it is pertinent: torrent-finder.com > has been about at least since Jan. 3, 2006, according to > <http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://torrent-finder.com>. > > Best > > Claude > > 2010/11/28 Rafik Dammak<[log in to unmask]>: >> Well that is getting more fuzzy, http://j.mp/f8EClO people pretending that >> is. Elaborated hoax >> >> Rafik >> >> BlackBerry from DOCOMO >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Joly MacFie<[log in to unmask]> >> Sender: NCSG-NCUC<[log in to unmask]> >> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 03:47:37 -0500 >> To:<[log in to unmask]> >> ReplyTo: Joly MacFie<[log in to unmask]> >> Subject: Re: U.S. Government Seizes BitTorrent Search Engine Domain and More >> 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 >>