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Old 02-16-2011, 09:19 AM  
Agent 488
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Domain seizures gone horribly wrong

was anyones affected by this?

http://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/2/16/us-...ld-porn-gaffe/

The Department of Justice and Homeland Security?s ICE office announced last week that it had shut down ten sites dealing in kiddie porn and and counterfeit goods but it turns out that the organisation had actually killed off 84,000 entirely innocent web sites by mistake.
The sites, which are mainly owned by small businesses and hosted by free FreeDNS, were all listed under the domain mooo.com, and were seized after a district court judge was convinced to issue a warrant. Each site was subsequently plastered with a rather scary notice saying "Advertisement, distribution, transportation, receipt, and possession of child pornography constitute federal crimes that carry penalties for first time offenders of up to 30 years in federal prison, a $250,000 fine, forfeiture and restitution."
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