<story><title>Homeland Security seizes music blog domains</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/14/business/media/14music.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Groxx</author><text>&amp;#62;&lt;i&gt;For now the seized domains are in legal limbo. David Snead, a lawyer specializing in Internet cases who is representing the owner of torrent-finder.com, speculated that it might be 30 to 60 days before he would be able to see a seizure order. “The government is providing zero information to help us determine what he is being charged with,” he said. “It’s a black hole.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That&apos;s just plain &lt;i&gt;wrong&lt;/i&gt;.  Under what rational reason have they seized these without notice, and without declaration of wrongdoing?  Is it part of a sting operation, or are they being labeled as terrorists?&lt;p&gt;If not, it&apos;s simply impeding justice, and seems to &lt;i&gt;me&lt;/i&gt; to  probably be motivated by the desire to have this go through smoothly; if they can wait out the initial surge of internet-interest, and &lt;i&gt;then&lt;/i&gt; make weak claims, there won&apos;t be as many people scrutinizing them.  Plus, this sort of event might just drive a few of the sites out of existence anyway, so their goals are served regardless, just by keeping their mouths shut.</text></comment>
<story><title>Homeland Security seizes music blog domains</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/14/business/media/14music.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tptacek</author><text>Just a reminder: this isn&apos;t a crazy overreach by &quot;Homeland Security&quot;. DHS is a very new cabinet department formed, like a beaurocratic Voltron, from a smorgasbord of peripherally-related agencies. One of those agencies was Customs/ICE, which for logical and historical reasons hosts federal anti-counterfeiting enforcement. DHS &quot;acquires&quot; Customs and bam, finds itself in the IP enforcement business.</text></comment>