Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
BitTorrent Based DNS To Counter US Domain Seizures — The domain seizures by the United States authorities in recent days and upcoming legislation that could make similar takeovers even easier in the future, have inspired a group of enthusiasts to come up with a new, decentralized and BitTorrent-powered DNS system.
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Researcher Warns of iPhone Phishing Dangers — Malicious Web developers can take advantage of the iPhone’s ability to push the Safari’s address bar out of view, says independent security researcher Nitesh Dhanjani via a post on his personal blog. After a Web page loads …
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement:
ICE seizes 82 website domains involved in selling counterfeit goods as part of Cyber Monday crackdown — WASHINGTON – Seizure orders have been executed against 82 domain names of commercial websites engaged in the illegal sale and distribution of counterfeit goods and copyrighted works as part …
Larry Downes / Technology Liberation Front:
Domain Name Seizures and the “Limits” of Civil Forfeiture — I was quoted this morning in Sara Jerome’s story for The Hill on the weekend seizures of domain names the government believes are selling black market, counterfeit, or copyright infringing goods. — The seizures take place …
Sara Jerome / Hillicon Valley:
Government’s Internet crackdown was timed to thwart ‘Cyber Monday’ crimes — Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday the government crackdown on websites facilitating copyright infringement was timed to coincide with the holiday shopping season. — The government has shut down 82 websites …
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Sites With Government Seized Domains Are Moving On, On Twitter — Last week while everyone was waiting for the COICA bill to move through Congress, The US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency one upped the Attorney General and seized domain names from a group of over 70 copyright infringing websites.
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
U.S. Government Seizes BitTorrent Search Engine Domain and More — Following on the heels of this week’s domain seizure of a large hiphop file-sharing links forum, it’s clear today that the U.S. Government has been very busy. Without any need for COICA, ICE has just seized the domain …
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Music Linking Site Raided By Dept. of Homeland Security / ICE — A large file-sharing link site dedicated to rap and hiphop music and news has been raided by the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The servers of RapGodFathers, a site with close to 150,000 members …
Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
Google Apps: The Future or Yesterday’s War? — One must be at least a little skeptical of product reviews, and, even more so, product reviewers. They usually don’t spend their own money on the product and they’re under constant pressure to produce more newspaper columns, or blog post after blog post.
Rob Pegoraro / Faster Forward:
Congress’s latest awful tech-policy idea: the Net-censorship bill — No idea is too bad not to get a second chance in Congress — especially when it comes to tech policy. — This week’s demonstration of that principle is a bill called the “Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act …