U.S. Resume Controversial File-Sharing Domain Seizures (Updated)

Ernesto
February 1, 2011
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US authorities have seized the domain of the hugely popular sports streaming and P2P download site Rojadirecta. The site, which is one of the most visited sites on the Internet, lost its .org domain which now redirects to a notice from DOJ/ICE. Rojadirecta is an unusual target because two courts in Spain have ruled that the site operates legally, and other than the .org domain the site has no links to the US.

roja Rojadirecta is known as one of the world’s major Internet sports broadcast indexes. The site links to broadcasts of many popular soccer matches plus other sporting events including NBA, MLB, NFL, NPB, IPL.

The site has well over a million visitors a day, and is listed among the 100 most popular sites in Spain in terms of traffic. This morning, however, visitors were surprised by a warning from US authorities. Continuing the previous “Operation in Our Sites” actions, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had seized Rojadirecta’s .org domain.

Rojadirecta is an unusual target for several reasons, not least because the site has been declared legal twice by Spanish courts. The site’s owners have previously fought a three year legal battle in Spain, which they won, but a single seizure warrant from US authorities has made this victory pointless.

Without receiving a notification or the option to defend themselves, the site’s domain was seized this morning.

“We have not been notified,” Rojadirecta’s Igor Seoane told TorrentFreak. As with the previous seizures the domain registrar was bypassed in the seizure. “According to Go Daddy they have not touched anything,” Seoane said.

Similar to BitTorrent sites, Rojadirecta doesn’t host any copyrighted material. Instead, it indexes HTTP links to sports streams that can already be found on the Internet, and also carries links to .torrent files which are hosted on other sites.

The site is owned by a Spanish company that pays its taxes and has been declared to operate legally in Spain. In addition, the site is not hosted in the US either. The only connection to the US is that the .org domain is maintained by a US company.

This indirect connection to the US makes the seizure a dubious action, according to Rojadirecta’s owner. “In our opinion the US authorities are completely despising the Spanish justice system and sovereignty,” Seoane told TorrentFreak.

At the moment Rojadirecta displays the same message from DOJ and ICE as the sites seized last year, including Torrent-Finder. It is expected that Rojadirecta is one of the first of a new list of seized domains.

The message below is posted on Rojadirecta.org

Seized Servers

The sports streaming and P2P link site is currently looking for legal advice, both in Spain and the US, and its owners are determined to fight the seizure with all means they have.

Despite losing the .org domain, Rojadirecta can still be accessed via rojadirecta.com, rojadirecta.es, rojadirecta.me, rojadirecta.in. The latter two domains are interestingly enough maintained by the same company as the .org domain, but Rojadirecta ensures us that they have many other domains that are not controlled by US authorities or companies.

The seizure of Rojadirecta shows that commercial interests are high on the agenda of the US Government. Seizing a domain that has been specifically declared to operate legally in other countries does not appear to be an obstacle. In this light, one has to wonder if generic domain names should be controlled exclusively by US companies.

Update: The owner of Channelsurfing.net informed us that his site was seized as well. Channelsurfing embedded videos from other sites and never hosted any copyrighted material on its servers.

Update: We published a follow up article here.

Update: Atdhe.net has been seized as well, another sports related site.

Update: firstrow.net has been seized, yet another sports related site.

Update: ilemi.com has been seized, yet another sports related site.

Update: kingdom-kvcd.net was initially reported to be seized as well (image), but the site’s owner told us that this is due to a “huffy ex-staff member” who decided to point the DNS to the server where the other seized domains are hosted.

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BJ Hanssen

Let’s hope the Spanish government hands in an official protest. This is an unsanctioned action across national borders, disrupting an explicitly legal operation in Spain. It is outside US jurisdiction, and Spain should point that out in the harshest terms possible.
- Anonymous
  
  Spain is controlled by the US Government too. You remember the Wikileaks cable featuring American ideas for the new Spanish copyright law?
  - Anonymous
    
    It is controlled as much as almost any other country in the world… But it is nice to hear it is not controlled enough for the public to be dismissed.
- Gobes
  
  Gee, do think you comcast/nbc/universal had anything to do with this? :|
  - http://pulse.yahoo.com/_I3HN3B5TIJMZW6OTYQZTDWED7Y Mama_Mia
    
    Amen….that just cleared yesterday and a saign of the times ahead. Fuck Comcast NBC and Eric Holder too.
    - http://www.facebook.com/people/Justin-Cummings/1054492287 Justin Cummings
      
      what the hell is a saign?
  - Owyn999
    
    My guess is its probably the NFL, since you know the “Big Game” is about to air on sunday they had to get the illegal streams of free broadcast tv off the intarwebs
- Fixedfire1
  
  The timing probably has as much to do with the up-coming “Super Bowl” as anything else.
  I for one will not watch the “Sucker Bowl”
- Anonymous
  
  With the bill called in Spain “Biden-Sinde”, due to the proof that wikileaks revealed pointing the harsh lobbying done by the US embassy in Madrid. Things might be changing soon here. We are fighting the bill as strong than we can, but a temporal coalition between Partido Popular(rightwing) and PSOE(leftwing) is going to pass the bill soon. I don’t think Spanish Gov will issue any protest again that action as they slavely serve the US industry.
- Anonymous
  
  With the bill called in Spain “Biden-Sinde”, due to the proof that wikileaks revealed pointing the harsh lobbying done by the US embassy in Madrid. Things might be changing soon here. We are fighting the bill as strong than we can, but a temporal coalition between Partido Popular(rightwing) and PSOE(leftwing) is going to pass the bill soon. I don’t think Spanish Gov will issue any protest again that action as they slavely serve the US industry.
Anonymous

this is just getting ridiculous.
- 5318008
  
  What’s weird is they’re leaving the bigger .com and .org sites alone, like btjunkie, tpb, isohunt, bitsnoop, etc and just taking down these oddball sites I’ve never heard of. Testing the waters I guess, making news? Cowards I suppose, picking on the little guys.
  - A_perfect_circle_01
    
    isohunt has also been on “the hunted” lately, forcing them to make a lite version… lots of torrents are restricted by US Courts…
  - Anonymous
    
    Just because you’ve never heard of a site doesn’t make it an “oddball”, and just because you *have* heard of a site doesn’t mean it is “bigger”.
  - Anonymous
    
    Just because you’ve never heard of a site doesn’t make it an “oddball”, and just because you *have* heard of a site doesn’t mean it is “bigger”.
- RepublicansAreFunny
  
  agree , it’s getting really silly.
  
  Where did all the intolerant right wing Americans come from ?
  Seriously.. A couple of days ago , there where none commenting here.
  
  I know for a fact , people in America are paid by the right wing to post their “”anti -everything”" on blogs. But what are they doing trolling here ?
  
  Maybe I am just ignorant, and Sports Streaming sites evoke a really strong , right wing , emotional response.
- RepublicansAreFunny
  
  agree , it’s getting really silly.
  
  Where did all the intolerant right wing Americans come from ?
  Seriously.. A couple of days ago , there where none commenting here.
  
  I know for a fact , people in America are paid by the right wing to post their “”anti -everything”" on blogs. But what are they doing trolling here ?
  
  Maybe I am just ignorant, and Sports Streaming sites evoke a really strong , right wing , emotional response.
ZaraX

This doesn’t surprise me at all. U.S. is actually a totalitarian regime hidden under the cloak of democracy. There are no human rights, no freedom, everything is controlled by the government. Run away if you can, while you can. It’s increasingly difficult for them to keep the appearances and when the truth comes up, there’ll be nothing to differentiate U.S.A. from Nazi Germany. Unfortunately, unlike the WW2, I don’t think America can be stopped anymore… Disregarding a court sentence with Spain obeying quietly is proof to that…
- Gh
  
  0/10
  
  Learn how to troll.
  - Bob
    
    0/10
    
    Get your head out of your ass.
  - http://www.facebook.com/people/Justin-Cummings/1054492287 Justin Cummings
    
    @Gh I think I hear your mom calling you…dinner is ready, run upstairs and stuff your fat fucking face and shut the fuck up.
- Unknown
  
  I live in america and I agree. This place is a corporate $$$ dictatorship run like a prison with a thin vaneer of rights that are taken away at whim.
  - Eloh
    
    Yes, every fucking year, more rights are taken away from us. I remember at the beginning of 2011 and also 2010 the MAINSTREAM local news reported more laws for citizens to follow. This is Bullshit.
    - Coachgeorge
      
      And yet, you have freedom of speech, as vulgar as it is.
    - Anonymous
      
      If talking could change anything important anymore, it would be illegal too.
    - Anonymous
      
      Maybe that explains why immigration applications to the US are off the chart. Dumb ass.
    - Dooms
      
      Who doesn’t want Twitter, US roads, lifestyle? Its the crack that keeps us all jumping to the mans call.
      
      Theres a price to pay for everything, but we’ve been convinced that we can just charge it!
      
      Hold on, i’ve got to grab the latest cell phone. If they cut off free speech on the net before I get back, well, it’ll be ok. I have all the new pop cd’s anyway. And if I need anything else, i’ll snitch on my neighbor, that guy just refuses to keep his grass under 6″!!! I wish he’d keep up with me, or even just match the Jones’s.
    - Anonymous
      
      Just because the US has problems doesn’t mean other places aren’t worse; they are.
    - No
      
      No… they are not…
      Come live in Scandinavia for a few years :) here the government serve the people, NOT the corperate machine
    - Guest
      
      The US likes to make people think that everywhere else is garbage. There are some really nice countries out there that actually listen to the people instead of pretending to be democratics while slowly acting like communists. What else will they block from the internet?
    - Libsarescum
      
      No, we do NOT have freedom of speech anymore. Say a thing about a gay or liberal, mention God and morals, and you are what they call a hatemonger or Nazi !!!!!!!!! The normalphobes and moralphobes are destroying our country letting everything from blatantly openly illegals stay here to continuing to slaughter over 50+ million babies for the last 38 years. The revolution is coming and will make Egypt look like it is having a giant block party!
    - Metronrg
      
      right on my friend; remember we win at the end!
    - Sgc Tidy
      
      Uh, this rant was inspired by the government taking away your free sports programming?
      Really, the object of your scorn ought to be big business. Sure our U.S. government bends over backwards to help this along but blaming a bunch of liberals is really not too thoughtful.The conservatives are more than willing to do the same. You can exercise free speech any time you choose buddy – if you need to bash some homos, libs or darky immigrants (I’ve got two out of three from that list – a .667 OBP ain’t too bad!) knock yourself out. Revelation or revolution, God bless ya!
      
      I’m heading over to that block party, tall boy in hand.
      
      -scummy lib
    - Meh
      
      Uhm isn’t sports broadcasting a part of big business? I’d imagine it has a pretty high turnover and it’s actually something people can RELATE to unlike far off business men who are just faceless ideas to them. No one can get that angry about something that far awayfrom their own lives. Revolutions are always started over the smallest things when you look at it, big principles are behind them, but the small things get ppls imaginations you dumb ass. More ppl will riot over not being able to see sport than alot of other reasons, so why don’t you use the brain you were born with and think things thru you retard.
      
      hoping you are well, etc..
    - Meh
      
      Uhm isn’t sports broadcasting a part of big business? I’d imagine it has a pretty high turnover and it’s actually something people can RELATE to unlike far off business men who are just faceless ideas to them. No one can get that angry about something that far awayfrom their own lives. Revolutions are always started over the smallest things when you look at it, big principles are behind them, but the small things get ppls imaginations you dumb ass. More ppl will riot over not being able to see sport than alot of other reasons, so why don’t you use the brain you were born with and think things thru you retard.
      
      hoping you are well, etc..
    - http://www.facebook.com/people/Freeda-Weed/100001728244194 Freeda Weed
      
      Governments are the heads of big business!
    - http://www.facebook.com/people/Freeda-Weed/100001728244194 Freeda Weed
      
      Governments are the heads of big business!
    - Frank
      
      Dumbass….. Freedom of Speech has never allowed you to say what you want and not have anybody call you out on being a racist or hatemonger. It just means you won’t go to jail for what you say.
      
      Otherwise I wouldn’t have the freedom to call you a dumbass.
    - http://www.facebook.com/people/Justin-Cummings/1054492287 Justin Cummings
      
      Yeah, if we can get everybody to quit watching Jersey Shore and all that other “reality” tv bullshit and get them to get up off their fat asses and go outside, oh, and care about someone but themselves, then maybe “we the people” could mean something again.
- A_perfect_circle_01
  
  do you play evercrack?
- A_perfect_circle_01
  
  do you play Everquest? I knew a guy named Zarax on there!
- Redwhiteblue
  
  What an idiot. Do you even know what totalitarian means. We do what we want and when we want. We are free to leave the country and return without issue. We vote, we own property, and (if you live in California) you can smoke a joint after dinner. Go ahead and run Zarax, we’ll be just fine without you.
  
  Oh and on the original subject. I love websites that illegally post links for sporting events, but if they get caught it’s because they were breaking the law moron.
  
  “Nazi Germany” lol, what a jack ass
  - Aticodeanon
    
    Roja directa has been declared legal by the Spanish judicial system, under which jurisdiction it falls. So, who was caught because they were breaking the law?
    And so, who’s the moron here?
    lol, what a jackass
    - keats81
      
      Roja directa falls under US jurisdiction because they chose to register their domain under a US controlled domain, .org. Now they have done what they should have done all along and moved to a new domain. I believe that the US laws are stupid, but they didn’t overstep their authority in controlling their own countries domains. Every country has the right to pass laws governing their own section of the internet, and if a company from spain decides to use a US domain, they must be prepared to follow US laws. Do the smart thing and register your site some where else like every one else is doing now.
    - Redwhiteblue
      
      I beleive keats81 said it all. The Spanish have jurisdiction over the website. However, the U.S. has jurisdiction over the .org domain. Which controles what information is allowed to flow throught the website. So, in a nut shell, the U.S. has indirect control over the website. And in fact, this is all Roja directas fault. They chose to operate in a U.S. controlled domain.
      
      I believe that make you the moron…still.
      
      lol Jackass
  - Derp
    
    The jackass seems to be you. Have you tried re-entering this country? You can’t do it without being harassed and even threatened by Homeland Security. What a moron…^
    - Redwhitblue
      
      I reentered the country on January 10th, If you think that being asked, “what do you have to declare?” is harassment, then sir,you are the jackass. Customs and Home Security are just trying to prevent the wrong people and things from getting past our borders. I have traveled abroad on 3 different occassions without one incident.
      If they are overly protective then I thank them for it. I don’t bitch and moan about having to be frisked and asked what my business is here. Thats normal customs behavior.
      Your just a bunch of pussies that are using the whole Roja Directa problem as an outlet for your pathetic and paranoid rantings.
      
      Well its Roja Directas ownn fault like keats81 said,” Every country has the right to pass laws governing their own section of the internet, and if a company from spain decides to use a US domain, they must be prepared to follow US laws. Do the smart thing and register your site some where else like every one else is doing now.
      
      MORONS AND JACKASS UNITE there is complaining to do.
    - Guest
      
      Go back to sleep America. It’s alright. It’s OK. Here’s American Gladiators. Go back to sleep.
    - Guest
      
      Go back to sleep America. It’s alright. It’s OK. Here’s American Gladiators. Go back to sleep.
- RedMage
  
  Godwin’s Law, you lose, discussion over. Come back when you can make arguments without having to resort the the sensationalist “NAZIS!!!!!111one” BS.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Justin-Cummings/1054492287 Justin Cummings
  
  Agreed, I fucking hate it here…”Ohhhh, but you have more freedom in the US!!!!!!!!!!! Why would you want to leave!???” This country is fucking bullshit, I’d rather move to mexico and run the risk of getting killed by the drug cartels.
Siprnetcypher

fuck the USG
http://www.facebook.com/deejayisea Daniel Wilkinson Sword

lol they are still there use there ip http://209.44.113.146/ aslo http://www.rojadirecta.com http://www.rojadirecta.me http://www.rojadirecta.es http://www.rojadirecta.in
- Mmm
  
  All of them have been seized an hour ago.
  - Emily
    
    All lies (MMM), I visited the sites DWS listed and they all work. Also sites say
    “Do not send e-mails to our dot com account, the new one ends on .in ¡SPREAD our new address not controlled by US authorities! ”
    Why troll and spread lies?
- Mitenpat
  
  This does work http://109.235.53.189/
- Mitenpat
  
  This does work http://109.235.53.189/
Politux

The corporations run our government. It doesn’t matter which party is in power. In order to get elected politicians have to take huge amounts of corporate money. As a result they are beholden to the copyright industry. This is a simple case of quid-pro-quo.

Where will it end? When the only websites left are run by Disney, NBC/Universal, Viacom, and the sports leagues?

I am writing to my Senators and Representative today to request that they oppose the censorship of the Internet. I encourage all rational Americans to do the same.

This action is beyond absurd. I hope the Spanish are as appalled as I am. It seems the US has no respect for their judicial system.
- Dingo_RG
  
  I assume a better solution will be that you, the americans, organize a revolution (as now in Tunez and Egypt) and putting out of business to all the rotten Obama administration, the bankers and Wall Street, who are really the responsibles of all this madness that is happening in the world.
  
  But, you guess something… you (the americans) are too much lazy and stupid as for doing the correct thing.
  - XxNWOxX
    
    I’m american and i agree.
    
    They’re starting to protest in california after the egypt protests started. Hopefully we can start changing things in our government.
  - jack
    
    why obama what did he do wasnt it GW who helped big banks and wall street and to top it off these are iIlegal sites
Guest

Kingdom-kvcd.net got seized too?

Thx for the new rojadirecta links, bookmarked :)

Oh.. and F U stupid USG.
You are NOT the world’s police. You are Kings Assclowns though.
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Dooja

What a great way to destroy internet-related industries in the US. If this continues, people will start to flock away from US domains/hosts/registrars faster than they can sell their dollar reserves. Only those US companies will suffer in the long term. Maybe it’s time they began to fight back against the ‘entertainment industry’ and their unfair business practises.
- Bob
  
  Thats why all my sites are .ie, even if they are intended for an international audience. Its a very small price to pay.
embrace change

You can certainly see the U.S. Government is feeling the pressure from big media. This can only mean one thing, they are losing vast amounts of money and the tides are changing in our favor, just as we all expected would happen. We stand to lose next to nothing and have everything to gain, they stand to lose everything and have next to nothing to gain. What more can you do to help? Keep your money away from the U.S. economy! This doesn’t end at just big media purchases, it means such things as making your next automobile purchase a foreign car, and staying away from purchasing any product tagged “Made in the USA”. If enough people follow this way of thinking, we will see the change we truly hope to see in this country. As it stands right now, clearly the U.S. seems to think they’re entitled to do as they please – remember, we CAN change this, but change doesn’t come over night, keep up the fight! Continue to do anything you can to re-route all your money away from the U.S. economy, this is a fundamental key to our victory and to helping to disarm those who support actions such as these.

With news like this, I would be so ashamed to live in the USA. Who gave them the right?
Especially after Spanish courts already deemed the actions legitimate. Absolutely despicable. I truly believe we will see a future with less global control from the U.S., as long as everyone does their part!
- Pablo
  
  Sorry dude, but what you advise will GUARANTEE the death of what’s left of the american economy. While I agree that corporatocracy is endangering all of us, what you propose is just stupid.
  - embrace change
    
    Sometimes you have to break a few eggs to make an Omelet.
    
    One step backwards for two steps forwards.
  - http://www.facebook.com/people/Freeda-Weed/100001728244194 Freeda Weed
    
    Sorry dude but sometimes the slate has to be wiped clean!
    
    Cancer can only be eradicated by ripping the root out!
    
    Sometimes things just have to be………..
  - http://www.facebook.com/people/Freeda-Weed/100001728244194 Freeda Weed
    
    Sorry dude but sometimes the slate has to be wiped clean!
    
    Cancer can only be eradicated by ripping the root out!
    
    Sometimes things just have to be………..
- http://www.facebook.com/orfetheo Orfeas Theofanis
  
  I agree with you but I want an apple laptop, so what do you do when there’s nothing non-american of the thing you want?
  - Anonymous
    
    Buy a real computer without training wheels?
    
    http://www.1000topics.com/images/mac-shaving-with-bowling-pin.jpg
    - Coachgeorge
      
      That’s Great!!
  - Scary Devil Monastery
    
    Get yourself an ASUS or Toshiba and install MacOS? If the design is all you’re after, then sorry, you’ll have to suck it up and dial the boycott back a notch.
    
    Which is sort of the point, really. You can get an “equivalent” to almost anything within the open source/other brand sector but if all you want is an Apple, then you’ve already decided your convenience overrides your personal moral imperatives in this particular case.
  - Scary Devil Monastery
    
    Get yourself an ASUS or Toshiba and install MacOS? If the design is all you’re after, then sorry, you’ll have to suck it up and dial the boycott back a notch.
    
    Which is sort of the point, really. You can get an “equivalent” to almost anything within the open source/other brand sector but if all you want is an Apple, then you’ve already decided your convenience overrides your personal moral imperatives in this particular case.
- Dingo_RG
  
  Great idea. From a long time; I am encouraging to all my colleagues, family and friends to not supporting the USA economy… and many agree with me.
  
  Don’t support the fascist and evil economy from USA is the correct thing to do.
  - rickards
    
    no it’s not a good idea.
    
    first, this passive-aggressive agenda has never proven itself effective. while 1 person in thousands decides to take a stand — nothing happens!
    
    second, from trends, purchasing foreign will only increase foreign currency, while devaluing the american dollar. foreign products will sky rocket. will you pay a 200% markup on a volkswagon, or buy a ford for half the price?
    
    third, corporate mentality will not abide by your activist mentality — no, instead they will head toward the cheapest cost to maximize revenue.
    
    you will not win this way. back to the drawing board.
    - Anonymous
      
      rickards, that would take decades & America would be in a depression by then, by which would cause either a swift change out of elected officials OR Revolution/Civil War (as seen in Egypt & soon Iran)
    - Dingo_RG
      
      rickards… You urgently need to study history.
      
      Gandhi defeated the british textile industry in India for encouraging to the people to not buying british clothes… period. And it worked perfectly.
      
      Also, you take in consideration something… it’s the internet, and millions of people read my opinions and the opinions of others, and MILLIONS of people could consider the ideas in these forums as solutions to follow, you see…
      
      At the end, the fascist USA industry only benefits to a MINORITY of rich people, in detrimental of all population, that’s a fact.
      
      I decide in that I spend my money, period. And I decided a long time ago not spending my money in a fascist industry which fights all the time against my basic civil liberties… whether you like it or not, that’s your problem; and I simply don’t care, you see…
    - can and mouse
      
      funny…. the American dollar has plummeted by approximately 50% in the last decade alone, and STILL everything I buy online, continues to be cheaper than any domestic product, same label or not.
      
      While I agree that boycotting America will no doubt present less than desirable results for the remainder of our lifetime, the fall of the American economy can only be the rebirth of a better world to live in for future generations. speaking of cracking eggs………….
      
      If the motives of business particularly in America do not make a huge swing, and quick… America’s future looks bleak.
    - cat and mouse
      
      my bad .. the last two decades**
    - Scary Devil Monastery
      
      Not that i agree with the fervent US-bashing going on here…but if you really want to watch the US fail, just grab a bag of popcorn and watch out for the next bailout package or the next few years of wars funded by steep loans from China?
      
      I don’t recall how just how long it’s been since the last time the US was racking up this amount of foreign debt in comparison to it’s GNP.
    - Scary Devil Monastery
      
      Not that i agree with the fervent US-bashing going on here…but if you really want to watch the US fail, just grab a bag of popcorn and watch out for the next bailout package or the next few years of wars funded by steep loans from China?
      
      I don’t recall how just how long it’s been since the last time the US was racking up this amount of foreign debt in comparison to it’s GNP.
  - Anonymous
    
    As though any other country was actually any better. They all suck.
    - Dingo_RG
      
      Exist a lot of countries better than USA, with better social medical care; you see…
      
      BTW, you are an IMBECILE, racist and xenophobic.
    - TheMetalChick
      
      What are they? List them please.
    - Ignorance_must_be_bliss
      
      why bother? nobody else has the american flag and bible bashing fanatics like the US… you’d miss them too much.
      
      On a more serious note… look at the countries which western Europe is made up of, since they all pretty much fall into the category of “Being better than the US” hell even France is preferable to the US and I am not a big fan of anything french.
      
      It has been QUITE a few decades since the US was better than anyone else… the crime rates, the homeless, the lack of a functional social security system and the obscene legal system speaks volumes about the poor state in which the US is in.
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TTQRXBVIYVQAEXPBNGBXV5VAOQ Sean
  
  I’m gonna go to Wally World and buy $500 worth of goods with Made in USA tags, k?
  Actually wait, I hate Wally World. =[
- Guest
  
  If you want to reroute your money my bank account is ready and waiting…
- Guest
  
  If you want to reroute your money my bank account is ready and waiting…
dlj

This is outrageous, if the USG want to screw with the domains owned by USA citizens and companies, go ahead, they *elected* it (or at the very least have the power to change it), but to get into the legal business of other countries is just wrong. The government of other countries should start getting a clue and demand the control of the Internet domain system to be handled in a way where the us government does not have this sort of control over the assets of foreign companies.

I am already in a seemingly eternal boycott against the entertainment industry, supporting only independent artists and projects, this makes me want to start a boycott against the whole of the USA, and I do spend quite a bit of the money that I made in us products and services. I’ll see how this plays out, but the moment they do any such thing against a domain in my country, or if they keep doing this, I am done spending any of my money there.
- Anonymous
  
  .com, .net, & .org will all become obsolete in 10 years or less if they keep this up. I mean WTF, 2 LEGAL sites domains seized? Hell yours could be next because someone claims you printed 7 lines from their book or some crazy shit. I’m waiting for the government to try & cut off American Internet Access (IT WILL HAPPEN SOONER OR LATER) & see how the people react… They will revolt or run to Canada.
  - Lamberfest
    
    Sigh, you wish man, Canada is not fairing much better with our equivalent government organizations doing the bidding of corporations. They are already cutting internet, Effective March 1st there’s a legislation to be enforced that mandates all Internet Service Providers (including the small companies) to cap all household internet usage at 25 GB per month. Anything over that will be charged 2 dollars/GB. And imagine a regular family…or a large family of 5-8…this can easily be exceeded. Especially if any family member goes to school…or is trying to start a small business…work from home…etc.
    
    The government organization (CRTC) here in Canada has been asked by the big companies like Bell and Rogers to put this into effect…this way the little companies that are currently providing unlimited usage a month will be crushed by this move! Motivation ——-> as always, money.
    - Cujo
      
      I don’t think all isp’s will bow
    - Lamberfest
      
      The biggest of the smaller isp’s have tried to fight it…this UBB has been going on for a while now..and they have finally put this legislation as a a go ahead in march…most people don’t believe it..but since my friend works for an isp, it is a go ahead and the companies will have to take penalties if they don’t bow to the legislation!
    - Jada Model
      
      netflix, youtube, and many other streaming sites should take up for this. It will affect their business. also they are saying that you can only watch 2 maybe 3 high definition movies per month. What utter rubbish. I don’t see this planning well
it doesnt matter

I don’t see what’s controversial here. You have big money dictating the government. The corporation and corrupt politician will always win.

Lesson is that you should NOT have your site hosted in the USA. Vote with your wallet, and don’t support what you don’t agree with.
- Bob
  
  Vote with your wallet indeed. It is the true voting scheme.
  - Coachgeorge
    
    How about JUST VOTE!!!!!
    - ignoreland
      
      Because there’s too many people who don’t educate themselves about these things and will believe whatever the media or their political party tells them. A million people voting for needed change will never overpower 3 million ambivalent voters.
      
      You have to make people care before they will pay attention to what you have to say, and money is a pretty big deal in America. If you don’t feed the corporate pigs, they’ll either claim they’re losing out because of piracy and spend more of their dwindling money on draconian internet censorship (which backfires when they continue to lose favor with the buying public), or eventually fall to their knees in front of the bargaining table.
http://www.facebook.com/wiredcivicex Clayton Johnson

I hate to tell them. Their assurance that their other domains can’t be touched is a false sense of security. At any time the US Government can abuse ICANN to destroy or take any domain they see fit.
- Scary Devil Monastery
  
  Which is why ICANN needs to go from the equation. Numerous other root domains do exist, and actions like these will only hasten the emigration to more neutral DNS root systems.
  
  It’s been said here on torrentfreak before – the USA wasted their one wish on a lollipop with these domain seizures. Ten years from now, alternative DNS roots will be an established standard, just as has been the case with every other standard which got hijacked by partial and vested interests.
  - Anonymous
    
    The US is proving that they can not handle the responsibility of operating the global DNS system and respect other countries laws. We need a decentralized DNS system. For now i have found the following to be the best temporary solution:
    
    The Telecomix group is offering a free anti censorship DNS. Takes 2 minutes to set it up. Your DNS requests go through them instead of your ISP. Than to ICANN and if ICANN returns a blocked domain back to telecomix, than they give you the correct info from the blocked domain list they collect. So it goes through them but you only use them when a domain is blocked. That is how they can do this on very little power.
    
    dns.telecomix.org
    In your router, replace the DNS addresses from your ISP with theirs:
    91.191.136.152
    85.229.85.109
    
    Their website is http://www.telecomix.org if you want to know more. You can also find an IRC chat there. Go say hey, atm they are busy trying to restore some communication with Egypt. And lots of wikileaks stuff comes through there.
    - Anonymous
      
      Had that site bookmarked for some time now. Can’t implement it yet because I’m pirating wifi (heh heh, try & catch me downloading copyrighted works) but good to keep around for when I do get my own Internet Access which may be soon if this idiot doesn’t learn how to setup his router without 500kb/s downloads choking it out…
    - anonymous
      
      WOW, bitching about the speed of wifi that your stealing, WTG and WTF?
    - anon
      
      You’re not very bright are you?
    - DocGerbil100
      
      This seems like a good idea, I’ll try it. Ta. :)
      … but am I the only one who finds it ironic that Telecomix is another .org? :P
Really?

Kingdom is up from here at the moment
DJDANKVT

Wow, typical scumbag US government tactics……..whats next?
- Anonymous
  
  Your children.
Fnord

The company you link to (Afilias) is an Irish company. However, the registrar for .org (pir.org) is in Reston VA – that’s probably who the USG went after.

The internet treats censorship as damage, and routes around it. .com/.org/.net are going to become a lot less popular as international companies and organisations realize just how much control the USG has over them…
Omg

are WE (the world) will let the U.S.A dictate our life ? cmon spain show us some back bone !!
Suckmy9indick

never used them but now that the stupid government shut down the .org…I’ve got one of the working one’s bookmarked and will using them now. Way to go US government….you are fucking idiots.
http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/NOZNKTI6HAEMMIGFGPGHPRYSLI DaleF

Homeland Security is massive bureaucracy created in the wake of 911 ostensibly to protect the US from terrorists. The Washington Post recently reported on how monstrously large it is. I think a lot of US citizens are probably more threatened and afraid of Homeland Security than terrorists. I guess the world is a little safer now from the terror of Spanish file sharing sites.
- Anonymous
  
  American military budget is more than all of the countries of the world combined. And I wonder why America is 14 Trillion dollars in debt…
Guest

Our government is totally controlled by and handful of corporations of parasites.

And Obama Joe bit-me really believe that we are going to vote for them again in 2012!

hehehehehehehehehehehe!
- Bob
  
  That, unfortunately, is what people where saying when Bush ran the second time, and look what happened there.
  - jack
    
    it amazes me that people think a pres can fix in 2 years what GW fucked up in 8 years MORONS lol
- Anonymous
  
  Obama has made some amazing strides considering that the Republican party now owns the House of Representatives.
  
  It’s like 1 teacher trying stop 1,000 young children from doing bad things. Some of them are gonna pull out their winkys & not get punished.
- Scary Devil Monastery
  
  Obama isn’t worse than most of them – and compared to GWB he does look like the Second Coming. I’m just sayin’.
  
  Then again, compared to GWB even Pee-Wee Herman would look like a promising presidential candidate…
- Scary Devil Monastery
  
  Obama isn’t worse than most of them – and compared to GWB he does look like the Second Coming. I’m just sayin’.
  
  Then again, compared to GWB even Pee-Wee Herman would look like a promising presidential candidate…
Anonymous

The US government is 99% full of complete idiots that literally have to be told what to think. This procedure is called “lobbying”.
The problem in this case is that the lobbyists work for a group that is 100% full of complete idiots; big media. Some Doug Morris-alike somewhere is positively convinced that these sites are stealing precious, precious pennies from him. Naturally, the obvious course of action was to spend a few hundred thousand to convince Homeland Security to take them out. And of course, that worked flawlessly.

I’m fairly certain that everyone involved in these seizures doesn’t know how to SPELL “Spain”, much less that it’s a different country. (Now taking bets on whether they think it’s “Spane” or “Spayn”.)
- Anonymous
  
  Sadly this is probably true. Fuck Sarah Palin said she could do foreign relations with Russia because she could see it from her house. AND SHE WAS ALMOST VICE PRESIDENT TO A MAN WHO IS 74 YEARS OLD.
  
  I’ll leave you with more of her quotes to brighten your day in knowing that you are smarter than a US Governor & Vice Presidential candidate:
  
  ”Nuclear weaponry, of course, would be the be-all, end-all of just too many people in too many parts of our planet.”
  —Sarah Palin, CBS interview with Katie Couric, Sept. 25, 2008
  
  ”’I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can’t.”
  —Sarah Palin, as quoted by former City Council Member Nick Carney, after he raised objections about the $50,000 she spent renovating the mayor’s office without approval of the city council
  
  ”I didn’t really had a good answer, as so often — is me.”
  —Sarah Palin, on writing notes on her hand during her Tea Party convention speech
  
  ”The perversion over these last years of what the media has done to conservatives, I think it’s appalling and it violates our freedom of the press.”
  —Sarah Palin, promoting the congressional candidate Vaughan Ward, Boise, Idaho, May 21, 2010
  
  ”If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?”
  —Sarah Palin, in ”Going Rogue”
  
  ”So we discussed what was going on in Africa. And never, ever did I talk about… Well, gee, is it a country or is it a continent? I just don’t know about this issue…”
  —Sarah Palin, asked about the post-election revelation by McCain staffers that Palin thought Africa was a country, not a continent, Fox interview with Greta Van Susteren, Nov. 11, 2008
  - http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TTQRXBVIYVQAEXPBNGBXV5VAOQ Sean
    
    ”If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?”
    
    Best. Quote. Ever.
    And anyways, Animals are made out of meat(and bones and blood and etc.)
    So are Humans >_>
Guest

What is amazing in there is the total absence of due process.

Joe bit me say I want this domain name down: That it it is gone and fuck the constitution!

Oh guess what Joe bit me will be held responsible for this violation of the law just like Bush/ Sheney will for the kidnapping, torture and assassination. The Obama administration will follow. All these criminals always thing that they can get away with all the shit they do but they are wrong. Nobody go away with anything.
Mrman

Strangely, the domain rojadirecta.org seems to be ‘un-seized’ and back up?
- Down For Me
  
  It’s down from here (Europe)
  
  >nslookup rojadirecta.org
  Non-authoritative answer:
  Name: rojadirecta.org
  Address: 74.81.170.110
  
  >nslookup 74.81.170.110
  Name: unknown.carohosting.net
  Address: 74.81.170.110
- Annomouscoward
  
  It’s down from the US
myp2p

http://www.myp2p.eu/competition.php?competitionid=&part=sports&discipline=football
Shadow

I guess they assume if Spain won’t implement the copyright laws the US wrote for them, they will handle Spain’s issues themselves by taking out all their legal websites.

I feel shamed to be an American.
- Scary Devil Monastery
  
  Why?
  
  Being able to criticize one’s own country is, imho, the highest standard of patriotism.
- Scary Devil Monastery
  
  Why?
  
  Being able to criticize one’s own country is, imho, the highest standard of patriotism.
WB3

This one really perplexes me. What does ICE have to do with it. Not to mention this is one area that sharing could bring in millions for the sports associations, especially for Soccer and the NFL. The control the stadiums, have the resources to broadcast themselves and sell their own advertising. They could stream their sports to everyone embed their own commercially sold advertising that they sold within the stream and broadcast to the world. They could keep all the profits rather than share with the stations. Any content provider could do the same via youtube. If you make a high quality show embed your own commercials, you will reap all the profits and not have to share with the stations, you get to keep it all. And, you could track exactly how many people are watching the show and how many times it is played. Yea there will be some fool wasting time to recode something that is given out freely but the “vast” majority will just watch what they want, when they want. Death of the Networks sort of speak. With redirecting players for advertisements, you will continually be able to sell ads for programs as they get older but people still watch. The fact that these options are not explored or tested makes me believe that “in fact” strong corporations are controlling the government. The Government should let it work itself out as it would normally do and concentrate on protecting physical threats to security. If everyones credit cards were stolen, doesn’t the Government think that the people and banks could work it out themselves. If they can’t, well it wasn’t an acceptable system. And ICE, shouldn’t you be in Arizona. Get out of Spain.
mh420

Thanks a lot TF nearly shat myself but kingdom-kvcd.isup
- http://TorrentFreak.com Enigmax (Andy)
  
  We have reason to believe that will change soon. The site is still up for most people but the DNS records are changing. We’ll try to get some updates as soon as we can.
  - More Info On The Way
    
    You should have some new information very soon
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WB3

On another thought and since politics is involved. How about this headline:

Obama administration starts to shut down internet like Mubarak in Egypt has done to its citizens.
- mh420
  
  +1 +2 and +3
  1. Don’t give me healthcare….too bad
  2. Don’t give me a job…….I’m broke
  3. Don’t give me my constitutional rights…..damn you
  4. Take away my internet……REDACTED due to not wanting MIB to show up at my door.
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Anonymous

Just one domain?

Image being used is slightly different to the one used in Operation In Our Sites 2 (OIOS2).

http://rojadirecta.org/IPRC_Seized_2011_02_NY.gif
vs.
http://seizedservers.com/IPRC_Seized_2010_11.gif
Gae

I think the US has a lot to answer for if they think it is acceptable to take sites offline which are legal, operate and are based outside of the US.
Nobody ever appointed them world internet police but that is what they seem to think they are.

It is now most definately time to start looking at taking away control of domains from the US government.
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sooty

Hey TF, you got part of this wrong, just been to Kingdom-kvcd.net & they are all still there as usual, spoke to KingBen & he is 99% sure you got given the wrong info lol, & they already have Kingdom-kvcd.me all ready for if you yanks do try to have a go, lol.
anon

you sir, are an idiot
- Anon
  
  No, Foff is just fat, ugly, white virgin.
http://www.facebook.com/eric.boehm Jack Murdock

The “we aren’t hosting any copyright material” excuse has long since outgrown it’s usefulness. The fact that the site gets more vistors everyday than a small country shows that links can be a very effective means of distributing copyrighted material.

The fact that spain gave them the go ahead means nothing as spain has made it clear that they have zero regard for copyright law.
- mh420
  
  Jack its really this simple, If I tell you you can watch a tv show by going to X web-site it’s kosher/legal/AOK. But jump to I post a link to X site on my site and suddenly I am liable under legal grounds that only apply to physical counterfeit goods?
  Its simply B$. There are plenty of laws that do apply to copyrighted goods on the internet ie. DMCA etc. that place the burden on the copyright holder to request a takedown from THE HOSTING SITE. At which point I believe it is the FBI who his tasked with taking action to investigate and shutdown the HOST OF THE CONTENT if they are not abiding by the law.
  This hot-linking madness the US is embarking on is only destructive, inflammatory, and highly illicit. It is rapidly fracturing the internet and removing ICANN’s ability to regulate in a time of increasing uncertainty about the future structure of the net.
  IMO Spain has only shown that they understand the basic structure of networking while the US has shown that my old bosses 2yr old is much more competent regarding computers and the Internet. FYI that’s not an exaggeration, he knows what hot-linking is wheras ICE doesn’t seem to know
  a) links are meta-data not content
  b) digital movies, tv, music, etc. are not physical objects and therfore do not fall under the statutes listed inthe seizure notices.
  c) the internet is a constantly updating/changing structure of meta-data which points to locations.
  d) they can simply read the link or check the link address to see where to content is hosted and take appropriate action
- Colin
  
  Spain, a sovereign independent nation, has actually made it clear that they have their own laws regarding copyright, which happen to be different to American laws. The USA has tried by underhand means to impose American style laws on Spain. So far, they have failed, but they are in the process of trying again.
  
  How would Americans feel if Venezuela were to impose its laws in the USA I wonder?…
- Scary Devil Monastery
  
  Are you, in fact, retarded?
  
  By that standard you, sir, would be liable for prosecution if you sold someone a screwdriver without ensuring in some way that the item would not be used for criminal purposes.
  
  Crawl back under the bridge, troll.
  - Whatever
    
    Didn’t DELL have a form to fill where you had to promise not to use their computers to commit acts of terrorism.
  - Whatever
    
    Didn’t DELL have a form to fill where you had to promise not to use their computers to commit acts of terrorism.
- Scary Devil Monastery
  
  Are you, in fact, retarded?
  
  By that standard you, sir, would be liable for prosecution if you sold someone a screwdriver without ensuring in some way that the item would not be used for criminal purposes.
  
  Crawl back under the bridge, troll.
- Gae
  
  I am sorry, but do you propose that Spain should live by US law?
  
  Also, not hosting any copyrighted material is not an excuse, it is a fact.
G.

Megaupload is next: http://www.rfcexpress.com/lawsuit.asp?id=70471
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http://twitter.com/hannahbailey2 Hannah Bailey

FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU Firstrow taken down as well.
Watchthenfl

So if people do not post hyperlinks but plain text URL , is that legal?

What if instead of http://www.rojadirecta.com i write http://www.rojadirecta.c0m with a zero. that would take person to a site that doesn’t exist.

how far does it go?
Random

Thanks guys! I hadn’t even heard of rojadirecta until today. What a subversive viral marketing ploy!

Also, anyone have any other options to atdhe?
- 112359
  
  http://atdhe.fm/
  - TrustAvidity
    
    That one’s a fake. The real one is atdhenet.tv. You can tell because the real atdhe is all links where as the fake ones have a big white tabbed section depending on what sport you want to see.
    
    “ATDHE.NET was shut down today. We will try anything we can to bring the site back. If you want to continue accessing site please bookmark http://www.atdhenet.tv. You can also follow us on twitter. Any website using the atdhe alias (other than one mentioned above) in their domain is not operated by us. Use them at your own risk.”
  - TrustAvidity
    
    That one’s a fake. The real one is atdhenet.tv. You can tell because the real atdhe is all links where as the fake ones have a big white tabbed section depending on what sport you want to see.
    
    “ATDHE.NET was shut down today. We will try anything we can to bring the site back. If you want to continue accessing site please bookmark http://www.atdhenet.tv. You can also follow us on twitter. Any website using the atdhe alias (other than one mentioned above) in their domain is not operated by us. Use them at your own risk.”
Jim

I hope you are enjoying your new totalitarian government.
- Obama
  
  You wouldn’t know what a totalitarian government was if it smacked you square in the face. Insulting everyone who has ever sufferred under the oppression of one including those died at the hands of the nazis is par for the course for the current generation of adult children who cry like infants the moment they don’t get what they want.
Jonny

Ilemi was seized tooo!!!!!!!!!!! damnnnn
John

The USA never has and never will respect sovereignty. Nice to know America elected a corporatist. Change we can believe in..
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Keeganh93

Shit, I always used atdhe.net during football season
Fixedfire1

Why Sports Sites? It has todo with the up-coming Sucker Bowl this sunday Duhh.
Predator

@WB3 [Moderator] 5 hours ago

This one really perplexes me. What does ICE have to do with it.

Heuuu, let me think. Oh! I know! it give us a cool target to Ddos!
Chris TMC

You disgust me.
Guest

atdhe.net back up as atdhe.me
Random

Yay! I’ve learned of so many new sites.
Anonymous

the govt did the same thing last year to movie streaming sites. Yeah i have over the air TV so i can still watch the game but what sucks is how can they stop this anyways? Whats the diffrence if i watch the game at your house or if you youlive say in new york and you stream it and I can watch it in california….stupid control freaks.
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Robert74

Can you guys please tell me where I can download spanish la liga games?
billyboy

more back ups ilemi.com is ilemi.tv :D
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Maroan

Antonima, USA is NOT responsible in this case, their governement AND greedy corporations are… The american people is not worse than any other. I dont hate USA, but i DO hate their governement for working for the bigs companies, and not for the people of the USA…
- Lamberfest
  
  Well that may be true…but when you look at the middle East, there’s tonnes of us Americans that hate on people who look like they are from the Middle East regardless of the fact that they weren’t responsible for their government and other crazy people’s behaviors. Many times when countries do things that are terrible the people are blamed and even though Americans kinda have the crappy end of the deal since the government has tried to keep things out of public knowledge and robbing us of the freedom and rights slowly, if we don’t wake and do something, it’s the same as being responsible…at least to a degree.
- http://anoxona.myopenid.com/ ANoXoNA
  
  true
Predator

@ Anonymous [Moderator] 6 hours ago
“The US government is 99% full of complete idiots that literally have to be told what to think. This procedure is called “lobbying”.”

You partly understand the problem.

To propel their business and survive the competing corporations need to constantly buy members of the government and this phenomena is so large that we the people no longer count while the corporation basically owe the government who protect the interests of corporations instead of the people’s.

It does not matter if they are republicans, democrats or independent. Only the kind of benefiting industry changes. If you vote republicans you are voting for the energy producing and wepons company plus some foreign countries such as Israel and China.

if you vote democrats you will vote for the pharmaceuticals and the entertainment companies plus others foreign country. (that will still include Israel and China again by the way. Joe Bit me for example is sold to the Israelis and to Hollywood)

To get out of this we have to dismiss all the branches of the government at once, Organize new elections where incumbent can not apply and have the new congress vote a first law making lobbying illegal under any forms or shapes.

The constitution provide a mechanism for doing just that.

Let use it!
Maroan

Its funny to see how the States are fighting for the democratics rights in Egypt and Tunesia right now, and still act like the worse dictatur does in theses countries…. Well in fact its not that funny at all….
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Bogus

This comment is unnecessary
johnny rotten

who`s rights are being violated here… another example of the us gov. pushing their weight around and too many american people are scared to step up an speak.. this is tranny….
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http://Facebook.com/BroncosZone Jon

This stinks so much =/ atdhe.net was how I watched the Brocnos last season
Mail

atdhenet.tv
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Thomas Jefferson

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Sadly.
Mandyloveme

http://www.channelsurf.eu
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JonInOakland

How can they do this? The Spanish courts declared aided and abetting a criminal enterprise legal? Fight it, the Germans will pay for it afterall aren’t they paying for all of Europe these days anyway?
- Colin
  
  Jon, you need to grasp the concept that the USA for all its military might etc, represents only about 5% of the world’s population. Spain is NOT part of the USA, it is a sovereign state with its own laws. They did NOT declare aiding and abetting a criminal enterprise legal. They declared that what in the USA may be a criminal enterprise is not so in Spain.
  
  Consider, in Saudi Arabia, possession of a bottle of whisky could get you a public whipping and 5 years in jail. By your logic, that law should be applied in the USA, and presumably Spain as well…
  - JonInOakland
    
    Only 5% of the world’s population and yet 70% of world commerce is conducted in dollars go figure.
    
    It is aiding and abetting illegal distribution whether some kangaroo court in some liberal socialist tax hellhole says so or not and despite your inane rationalizations and protestations to the contrary.
    - Anonymous
      
      China and Russia just dropped the $US for bilateral trade.
      
      India and Brazil are in negotiations to do the same thing.
      
      Try calling those four countries insignificant. Hahaha, the US is fucked.
    - JonInOakland
      
      No doubt it is so fukked that when the shit hits the fan, the world pays the US via negative bond rates including costs to hold their money.
      
      Same song and dance different era. Oil embargo in the early 70′s all kinds of crap was suppose to change.
      World commerce in $$$ 72% in 1970
      70% today done an awesome job coming up with an alternative world standard bearer.
      
      so very sorry that the truth is such a fukking bitch.
Gres

Obama has sold out to the corporations. he is turning into a Nazi
- Anonymous
  
  You Godwin, you lose.
Obama

This sucks so much!!!!!!!

Rights being taken away left and right,
funny how copyright of Us entertainment is one of them.

No doubt to continue grossly violating international copyright law the US government should be overthrown.

Parasites, somehow the US gets to pay for this while Europe can watch for free,
sounds like the Olympics.
GOTOHELL

apparently all the porn and bing and cellphone advertisements were not enough revenue to pay off the usg. GOOD AND I TOLD YOU SHEEPLES THAT DEPENDING ON THESE ADVERTISEMENTS WILL BE THE END OF THE INTERNET
Fuck The US Gov

goddamn these motherfuckers. for every site they shut down at least 10 more pop right back up, but it’s still annoying as shit that they have to transfer everything over to a new domain and then spread the word all over again about where it’s now located. fuckers.
manchuu

ilemi.com now is here —> http://ilemi.tv
red card

red card to USA
- ANoXoNA
  
  aww.. I wanted a green card.
- ANoXoNA
  
  aww.. I wanted a green card.
Trelew

Ah yes! The American government, hard at work for the corporate elite. The public can suffer with rising crime but we just can’t get in the way of the corporate powers-that-be lust of greed and power
Samothemoron

Everyone should stop using US dollars, US products and completely divorce themselves from the USA entirely. Oh right you cannot possibly do that.
the typical American has done that with Europe 30yrs ago and seems to be getting along fine.
- Anonymous
  
  Been boycotting the US for ages, it’s not hard to do.
  
  Soon as America’s creditors realise they’re never getting their cash back, they’ll start boycotting as well, and then it’s game over.
  - Samothemoron
    
    really? so you’re not using any US borne computer chips? Righto-sure you’re not.
    
    nothing in any Americans life indispensable comes from Europe, not a single solitary thing but of course Europe cannot possibly function without US computer chips, other technology or drugs and it seems US entertainment programming but keep pretending otherwise.
    - Maroan
      
      How funny you should mention that… Then you should ask your governement why, among other things, they need help from europeans companies for building the Joint Strike Fighter? Would the NASA have been able to put a man on the Moon without German help? Take the Doby techonolgy.. Did you know it is in fact a british invention? An I could keep on… So I dont think it could be THAT difficult to boycott USA if needed… US computer chips? Well I guess the Europeans could find out how to produce such as well.. Heck Te British did it allready in the ´90´s
    - Maroan
      
      Oh, a little mistake: Doby, I ment Dolby of course..
Samothemoron

Shame on those evil greedy corporations!
Without whom there would be no content to steal.

How much money is 100million visitors a day worth? How much did they pay from that to the content providers? Oh zero but they paid taxes in Spain, well that makes it alright then.
Pablo

you are way too transparent to be Obama, so fess up, who are you REALLY? Is that you GWB?
Inspectorqueer

homeland security is controlled by a bunch of corrupt cawk sukn faggots that have no right to do the shit they do !! to hell with them
Kuma

USA is the new China..
Akron

ilemi.tv does not work for me. Anyone have an alternate backup? Are others getting ilemi.tv?
Blank1

Shocked it-leaked.com is still going god wish they would die
even domopod.me
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balllllz

good to know the government is spending their time/our money on important issues
patriot

“LAND OF THE FREE, HOME OF THE BRAVE”
(sarcasm)
Nnik

Atdhe.me is a Viral Site! Dont use!
Wb3

The United States of America, I knew would tell these big industries; “Deal with your own problems”, we have important things to do. Don’t come crying to us that someone is watching the “Super Bowl” that isn’t authorized. Correct me if I am wrong, but isn’t the Super Bowl being played on a “Broadcast” channel for free for anyone with an antenna. If shows are being broad cast for Free over the Airwaves, as most popular sports are, don’t come crying to the Government. Deal with it. Here is a no brainer, you lump heads, why don’t you track all the streams and charge more for advertising. Heck why don’t you stream it yourselves and control your content.

Take head US Government, get back to protecting the public not controlling them. Did you ever think that letting these problems work themselves out you would be creating jobs. Let the vary models and business’ hash it out. You will at least employ more lawyers. But more likely, many more people will get employed by NetFlix type services. But you have to let the Big Companies that employ thousands deal with it themselves will the Thousands of small companies that employe tens of people grow.

It is better to collect a $1 from a 100 people than to collect $100 dollars from 1. Let the Big Boys go, and start protecting the individuals. You will get a lot more money in revenue that way.
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Anonymous

Awesome. The more these tards squeese, the more Egyptian style revolutions they’ll create.

The US is done.
Anonymous

I am a US citizen, but by no means do I agree with the US actions. Their actions seem to go against what the USA, at least should, stand for.

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and Warrants shall not be issued, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

A few of the domains I saw in the last batch, maybe this batch too might have a case to come back and sue. Beyond that I simply wonder what they hope to accomplish in the end. Sites are very quickly moving to .me and various other domains which they have no direct authority over. Then what is their move?

It is fucked up that the MPAA and organizations of that nature can end up with enough power to use law enforcement as they see fit circumventing what should be basic expected laws.

If they want to file an injunction and go through the process that seems fair enough but this is some bullshit.
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Straw Bear

When i was 13 a girl i liked copied me a cassette tape.

I taped songs off the bbc radio 1 chart show for over TWO years.

I watched a copy of Indiana Jones & The Raiders of the Lost Ark over 8 times on VHS recorded off the TV one xmas (and every time got confused by the January sales ads)

Many times in Dr’s and Dentist waiting rooms I have read magazines and papers I DID NOT PAY FOR.

Often I have watched Sporting Events and Feature Films on Subscription Services at friends’ houses.

My mother in law gives me her copy of National Geographic when she has read it.

I buy second hand books for pennies in charity shops.

I buy CDs and DVDs for people as gifts and they consume said media THEY DID NOT PAY FOR.

I regularly record shows off the TV if I am out or otherwise engaged. Some I do not delete afterwards but leave on the box.

I DEMAND MY DAY IN COURT!

I would demand extradition to a US court, but they’d probably do it, the dumb fuckers.
Straw Bear

When i was 13 a girl i liked copied me a cassette tape.

I taped songs off the bbc radio 1 chart show for over TWO years.

I watched a copy of Indiana Jones & The Raiders of the Lost Ark over 8 times on VHS recorded off the TV one xmas (and every time got confused by the January sales ads)

Many times in Dr’s and Dentist waiting rooms I have read magazines and papers I DID NOT PAY FOR.

Often I have watched Sporting Events and Feature Films on Subscription Services at friends’ houses.

My mother in law gives me her copy of National Geographic when she has read it.

I buy second hand books for pennies in charity shops.

I buy CDs and DVDs for people as gifts and they consume said media THEY DID NOT PAY FOR.

I regularly record shows off the TV if I am out or otherwise engaged. Some I do not delete afterwards but leave on the box.

I DEMAND MY DAY IN COURT!

I would demand extradition to a US court, but they’d probably do it, the dumb fuckers.
- ANoXoNA
  
  best mini-rant in a long time.. Quite poetic.
  A few tweaks and it could be a ledgend.
- ANoXoNA
  
  best mini-rant in a long time.. Quite poetic.
  A few tweaks and it could be a ledgend.
Suckmy

this is so pointless, all these sites are already back up on different domains. another fail by our government, devoting time and rescources to pointless endevours
Suckmy

this is so pointless, all these sites are already back up on different domains. another fail by our government, devoting time and rescources to pointless endevours
Nicolas

Something interesting to notice IMO:

The first domains on the article comes from US registrar, but the latest:

Domain Name: ILEMI.COM
Registrar: DIRECTI INTERNET SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD. D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM
Whois Server: whois.PublicDomainRegistry.com
Referral URL: http://www.PublicDomainRegistry.com

Directi is an indian company:

http://www.internic.net/registrars/registrar-303.html

That means that even a domain name registred with a registrar outside of the US can be sized…

WTF?!

But they seem to seize only whois protected domains (else TPB would have been sized, don’t you think so?)

There is something I don’t understand…
Nicolas

Something interesting to notice IMO:

The first domains on the article comes from US registrar, but the latest:

Domain Name: ILEMI.COM
Registrar: DIRECTI INTERNET SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD. D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM
Whois Server: whois.PublicDomainRegistry.com
Referral URL: http://www.PublicDomainRegistry.com

Directi is an indian company:

http://www.internic.net/registrars/registrar-303.html

That means that even a domain name registred with a registrar outside of the US can be sized…

WTF?!

But they seem to seize only whois protected domains (else TPB would have been sized, don’t you think so?)

There is something I don’t understand…
Crazyshit

For ATDHE they didn’t even change the DNS, meaning that this is done from higher than the registrar / ICANN level…

Crazy!

Domain name: ATDHE.net

Registrant Contact:
WhoisGuard
WhoisGuard Protected ()

Fax:
8939 S. Sepulveda Blvd. #110 – 732
Westchester, CA 90045
US

Administrative Contact:
WhoisGuard
WhoisGuard Protected (7db9d9bcd2b74b6dba99c2a1818b2631.protect@whoisguard.com)
+1.6613102107
Fax: +1.6613102107
8939 S. Sepulveda Blvd. #110 – 732
Westchester, CA 90045
US

Technical Contact:
WhoisGuard
WhoisGuard Protected (7db9d9bcd2b74b6dba99c2a1818b2631.protect@whoisguard.com)
+1.6613102107
Fax: +1.6613102107
8939 S. Sepulveda Blvd. #110 – 732
Westchester, CA 90045
US

Status: Locked

Name Servers:
ns.prq.se
ns2.prq.se
Crazyshit

For ATDHE they didn’t even change the DNS, meaning that this is done from higher than the registrar / ICANN level…

Crazy!

Domain name: ATDHE.net

Registrant Contact:
WhoisGuard
WhoisGuard Protected ()

Fax:
8939 S. Sepulveda Blvd. #110 – 732
Westchester, CA 90045
US

Administrative Contact:
WhoisGuard
WhoisGuard Protected (7db9d9bcd2b74b6dba99c2a1818b2631.protect@whoisguard.com)
+1.6613102107
Fax: +1.6613102107
8939 S. Sepulveda Blvd. #110 – 732
Westchester, CA 90045
US

Technical Contact:
WhoisGuard
WhoisGuard Protected (7db9d9bcd2b74b6dba99c2a1818b2631.protect@whoisguard.com)
+1.6613102107
Fax: +1.6613102107
8939 S. Sepulveda Blvd. #110 – 732
Westchester, CA 90045
US

Status: Locked

Name Servers:
ns.prq.se
ns2.prq.se
http://infonetplusplus.blogspot.com/ Mihai

These guys are really creating a new way to make money with no work…
http://infonetplusplus.blogspot.com/ Mihai

These guys are really creating a new way to make money with no work…
Mike V.

yea….dark times are coming
Mike V.

yea….dark times are coming
Ninja

This should not come as a surprise. Ppl should be running from US registrars. The indian company case is worrying though.

Shame on you US. When are you Americans gonna go Egypt-like and fight for the freedom they’ve been taking away from you for years now under the pretext of terrorism, piracy and so on?
Ninja

This should not come as a surprise. Ppl should be running from US registrars. The indian company case is worrying though.

Shame on you US. When are you Americans gonna go Egypt-like and fight for the freedom they’ve been taking away from you for years now under the pretext of terrorism, piracy and so on?
- No
  
  Yeah, it’s pretty strange – i thought you’d be protected being with a non-us registrar, but it sounds like not…
- No
  
  Yeah, it’s pretty strange – i thought you’d be protected being with a non-us registrar, but it sounds like not…
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http://truth-and-opinion.dyndns.org/ mavigozler

This action of the U.S. government has severe implications that will spell the end of the Internet. The Internet works because a nation like the United States does and can not or cannot interfere with someone in Kirgizstan trying to make TCP connection to a host/server in Denmark. If and when a nation–the U.S. or anyone–arrogates to itself the ability to stop a connection that really does not involve it, then some nation will set up a name server that isolates itself from U.S.-based hosts (out of spite) and will serve as an alternative top-level domain name server.

At work, I must point my DNS to workplace servers since my employer blocks port 53 calls trying to get outside the firewall from unauthorized hosts (only hosts running their DNS servers are obviously allowed to make port 53 requests). But when I get home, I will learn if OpenDNS or Google servers (which I use…not the ISPs) are blocking.

I am waiting for someone to set up an alternate DNS server that gets around these illegal actions of the US Dept of Justice or Homeland Security, or whatever Nazis are behind this.
http://truth-and-opinion.dyndns.org/ mavigozler

This action of the U.S. government has severe implications that will spell the end of the Internet. The Internet works because a nation like the United States does and can not or cannot interfere with someone in Kirgizstan trying to make TCP connection to a host/server in Denmark. If and when a nation–the U.S. or anyone–arrogates to itself the ability to stop a connection that really does not involve it, then some nation will set up a name server that isolates itself from U.S.-based hosts (out of spite) and will serve as an alternative top-level domain name server.

At work, I must point my DNS to workplace servers since my employer blocks port 53 calls trying to get outside the firewall from unauthorized hosts (only hosts running their DNS servers are obviously allowed to make port 53 requests). But when I get home, I will learn if OpenDNS or Google servers (which I use…not the ISPs) are blocking.

I am waiting for someone to set up an alternate DNS server that gets around these illegal actions of the US Dept of Justice or Homeland Security, or whatever Nazis are behind this.
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Canadian eh?

From an economic stand point this is suicide, think about all the business they’re going to push away. The American based domain companies will simply move off shore costing the American people in the long run. A prime example of how public police can have unseen effects.
Canadian eh?

From an economic stand point this is suicide, think about all the business they’re going to push away. The American based domain companies will simply move off shore costing the American people in the long run. A prime example of how public police can have unseen effects.
Anonymous

UPDATE rojadirecta.com has been seized too! There seems to be problems too with rojadirecta.me as it has been registered through a US Registrar. To ALL europeans avoid urgently to register domain names through US registrars.
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Anonymous

Rojadirecta.com seems to be back – I can still go to it using the .com without the seizure thingy.
Except if I use http://www.rojadirecta.com – only rojadirecta.com works.
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http://209.44.113.146/
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GuestItron

@ everyone , watch zeitgeist 3 moving forward , that deals with the root of the problems.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z9WVZddH9w
happy with new sources!

Thanks so much homeland security! I didn’t even know about half of these sites. Thanks for bringing them all to my attention. :P
Duhh

Don’t do shit that is illegal, in any country, or be prepared to pay the consequences. ‘Nuff said.
- Anonymous
  
  Fair comment.
  
  But acting in a manner that isn’t illegal in your own country should not lead to interference from another country, even if those acts happen to be illegal there.
  
  That’s the real issue here, but you seem to have totally missed the point.
- Precurse
  
  So you’re saying we (in Canada) should be forced to obey Saudi Arabia laws?
  
  What if I have a website up that goes against one of their laws (and their punishment is stoning).. Should I be stoned if I’ve never stepped food in Saudi?
  - Pioe
    
    being stoned may help you to obey stupid laws and sit down while they beat you (not me, i’d be spitin the blood n their faces, preferably in the mouth and eyes)……………………. as far as the original post i call BS… I am a citizen of the USA, but I denounce this nation, I spit on what it has become, fuck my home country of USA, go ahead homeland security… take your eyes off your conspiratory terrorist plot and attack something as trivial as VHS double taping in the 80′s and 90′s and let your self created terrorist organization of terrorists blow you all to hell and gone, seems like everyone around me’s smokin crack anyway… I’m suprised that these so-called terrorist groups havent nuked the US capital, but i feel it comin on as things heat up, and the government enslaves us the people, and the government pisses on all the other countries of the world (while grinning happily, and F***ing your grandma in the A** and pouring sugar in your gas tank)… USA= Under Suppressive Agencies, also Un-constitutional Sh*tty A*s-laws
    one nation FAR under God, divisable, with liberty and justice for none…………
Fer

http://ilemi.tv/
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Nathan

The messiah, Obama, will save us from all illegally streamed sporting events! I thank you from the bottom of my heart my little black yoda.
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oz

I’m so glad that the US Homeland security has, stopped terrorism, closed the borders, deported all the illegals, found Bin Laden, Found all the missing plutonium, secured the airports, stopped the stupid pat down searches of children and old ladies and allowed US citizens to live free in a land founded on freedom and freedom of speech.
OH Wait, none of that shit happened!!
Instead they shut down Internet streaming sites, Oh now there is a good use of US tax dollars
NFL paid them off. This just floors me, the stupidity of it all, the corruption of corporations and government.
Big government and Obama with their heads up their butts.
You’d think they would actually care about stuff that matters.
.
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Sebastian

With all those domain-seizures continuing in the US, I wonder how long it will be before “US owned” TLD’s will stop being used. It would be ironic if the DOJ/ICE’s actions actually started causing more damage to the US economy rather than preventing it.

If the generic top-level domains are ‘compromised’ in this sense, then it’s about time that the current US companies who hold control over them are reassigned or given special ‘international’ status.

We denounce countries like Iran, China, Egypt, etc., for taking control of the internet and actively blocking content they don’t like, yet we somehow accept the exact same thing when our government do it to protect the commercial interests of major corporations.

P.S. Can we rename the USA to the UCA (United Corporations of America) already?
- Anonymous
  
  How prehistoric of the US to promulgate laws intended to protect intellectual property. The examples of China, Egypt, Iran, that you cited are countries that are regulating the internet to suffocate independent ideas and thoughts. Don’t ever try to win an argument by reliance on nonsensical comparisons.
- Anonymous
  
  How prehistoric of the US to promulgate laws intended to protect intellectual property. The examples of China, Egypt, Iran, that you cited are countries that are regulating the internet to suffocate independent ideas and thoughts. Don’t ever try to win an argument by reliance on nonsensical comparisons.
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Phil

Hey if any does want to reach this website, it’s still possible via these links:

http://www.rojadirecta.me
http://www.rojadirecta.es
http://www.rojadirecta.in

They took down the .org domain but they have others in it’s place.
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Nehalsz26

american’s are after thier old job of policing the world, after they dont have anything better to think about – the arses of the world slog it out and make these people thier money, so what else would they do, except policing the world!!
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USA is killing .com .org .net
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