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.
>



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