FBI Torrent Bust Operation D-Elite

[Dave L]

Has anyone caught this? If you havn't, Wednesday the ICE, the largest investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security, and newly formed "task force" launced an investigative attack on a popular torrent site based on purported detailed information provided by the Motion Picture Association of America.

This attack came the same day that BitTorrent inventor Bram Cohen and company released a search engine (http://search.bittorrent.com/) for locating and cataloging files available for p2p transfer.

The government is is calling this the first criminal law enforcement action against BitTorrent users.

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BroadBandReports comments (http://text.broadbandreports.com/forum/news,63922%7Emode=full%7Edays=2000)

[Rob]

Uhm, I hope they don't shut down my favorite torrent site. :|

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[sparky2dope]

At least etree is legal and so is dreaming tree. It would be a huge bummer to lose the others like torrentspy/reactor/box

[Rob]

Ya, apparently Brad Cohen (the creator of bit torrent) launched his own torrent search page to coincide with the bust: http://search.bittorrent.com/

He's said that he didn't design the tool for piracy, and thinks people who use it for that type of thing are crazy. I'm a bit surprised he decided to throw his weight behind a search engine that returns results for Revenge of the Sith.

r