The shields on the notice seem a bit beyond the aesthetic that one customarily (sic) associates with ICE. Especially the red border! But to follow up on Milton and Marc "ICE is a relatively recent creation, gathering powers that traditionally resided with Customs and the INS." and " Interesting that this can go on without COICA." At the very least this is a wake up call about the fragility of global infrastructure with these "gathering powers" To compare the notice with the aesthetic of ICE check out http://www.ice.gov/index.htm ICE seems to prefer images of drug caches and handcuffed brown arms and under this administration the prevailing color is blue. BTW "We seize" is what a few of us called WSIS a few years ago in Geneva. DeeDee On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Jorge Amodio <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Something like this happened before and reported by the same people ... > > > http://torrentfreak.com/fansubbing-site-fakes-ice-bust-to-protest-media-reporting-100719/ > > The article specifically said: > > “So we faked that we got taken down to show people that the media > publishes everything without knowledge and with wrong and assymetric > information, and if one day they try to catch us, people shouldn’t > believe in what they will say.” > > Can't say, but may be they are trying to be more noisy this time ? How > much can you trust what these guys report ? > > Regards > Jorge > > > On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Milton L Mueller <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> ICANN has no operational knobs it can tweak at the 2nd+ level. Verisign > >> does. > > > > Precisely. I suspect that claim in the article that ICANN was involved > was simply false. > > > >> I'd really like if some of the numerous reports citing a Court order > >> provide more information about it or a link, so far I'm still trying > >> to find a concrete reference or the actual order. > > > > But that's the disturbing thing about this case, Jorge. It appears that > no court order was ever served on toerrent-finder. > > > > > >> Both the .com (supposedly seized) and the .info (still working) are > >> registered by the same person with address in Egypt. > > > > If - as appears to be the case - this action depended on the cooperation > of the registry, it may be that VeriSign was more "cooperative" than > Afilias. > > > -- http://www.deepdishwavesofchange.blogspot.com http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid=109520517858965396132.00048838d78b7d003adb8 [image: Picture]