* Michael Painter: > BURBANK, Calif. (AP) -- U.S. officials on Wednesday announced a major > crackdown on movie piracy that involved disabling nine websites that > were offering downloads of pirated movies in some cases hours after > they appeared in theaters.
Note that some of the domain names in the ICE press release appear to be wrong (or they have already lost control of them). Targeting THEPIRATECITY.ORG and not THEPIRATEBAY.ORG is slightly ridiculous, and it seems that TVSHACK.NET has already reappeared as TVSHACK.CC. ZML.NAME is still controlled by the ZML.COM folks, but seems to have problems right now. This takedown approach might work for controllers of non-too-advanced malware, but you need something better for content which people actually want to access, and which is indexed by helpful search engines. 8-/ -- Florian Weimer <fwei...@bfk.de> BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99
