A crack team of San Diego based cyber-investigators called CATCH has busted up a BitTorrent tracker site called elitetorrents.org.
The San Diego Union Tribune has the story, and in keeping with their high journalistic standards, it's full of technical inaccuracies: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20050526-9999-1b26crackdow.html (Remember that file sharing network called MP3.com?) Visitors to the tracker site were logged by the crime fighters, and the Justice Department is still deciding what to do with the names. (Probably just want to scare them.) The site itself has been replaced by a j00 b3n 0wN3d page from the FBI and the Deparment of Homeland Security. The page seems a little unprofessional to me. http://elitetorrents.org/ Interestingly, the (federal, criminal) law only applies if the stuff you've "stolen" amounts to more than $1000. You could download all of Britney Spears' complete albums, including the early years, and not reach that, I would think. I'm sure they do the numbering differently. IANAL, TG. http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/ts_search.pl?title=18&sec=2319 >From the UT article: Jim Sevel, San Diego superintendent of cybercrime investigations for the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, said that as part of the investigation, he viewed some of "Revenge of the Sith," but not enough to spoil the plot. "I went out and paid $9.50 to see it in a theater," he said. -todd -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
