when did homeland security have this new power? and a big wtf they did just rip

the constitution?

http://mashable.com/2010/11/27/homeland-security-website-seized/

The U.S. government’s crackdown on file sharing and counterfeiting has taken a new and disturbing turn.

Yesterday, we reported that the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement office had seized Torrent-Finder.com, a site that linked to other sites that hosted and shared torrent files of copyrighted material. The news itself was not too unusual; what struck us as out of order was that the site had been shut down without the owner being notified and without a court conviction or, to our knowledge, any other legal proceedings.

They executed a warrant for search and seizure. Hardly strikes me as acting above the law.

Only a fool would use torrents to grab copyrighted material anyway. There's no easier way to be set up -- any one seeding could be an agent for the copyright owners.

Wait, homeland security hunts down illegal file sharers?

i hear the vice president is a riaa stooge and his friends from the riaa works in the justice department.

Iarmchair_warrior wrote:

i hear the vice president is a riaa stooge and his friends from the riaa works in the justice department.

I can only surmise that this is as insightful as it is true.

Obama Taps 5th RIAA Lawyer to Justice Dept.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/04/obama-taps-fift/