UK Law Enforcement Starts Seizing Music Blogs 310
Grumbleduke writes "From Dajaz1 (a site that is no stranger to unjustified copyright takedowns) we learn that the popular R&B website rnbxclusive.com (warning: threatening message on site) has allegedly been seized by the Serious Organized Crime Agency, a UK law enforcement agency, and its operators arrested on fraud charges. Not only does the replacement message contain a number of factually dubious claims, it also shows the visitor's IP address, browser and operating system, and threatens to track and monitor them. At a time when copyright lobby groups are strongly pushing for even greater powers through laws such as SOPA and ACTA, one is left wondering why they think they need them, when police can shut down websites such as this at will."
Tee-hee (Score:5, Funny)
Does anyone else giggle when they read "Serious Organized Crime Agency" with a deep voice?
Re:Tee-hee (Score:4, Funny)
Does anyone else giggle when they read "Serious Organized Crime Agency" with a deep voice?
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Re:Tee-hee (Score:5, Funny)
Sounds like something a 10 year old came up with. "I'm the head of the Very Important Government Stuff!!"
Re:Darknets (Score:1, Funny)
I bet 7 proxies would be enough to keep from being tracked.
Archive.org to the rescue (Score:5, Funny)
So, I wanted to see what was so bad about this site, so I checked out the latest cached version of it from archive.org [archive.org]. It looks like the site wasn't hosting anything that was copyrighted, but provided links to copyrighted content (their downloads from June 2011 seem to use HulkShare.com, but those links are dead).
It's hard to say if he was just providing linking to illegal content or if he was uploading the files to the file sharing sites himself and then providing a link.
Re:Tee-hee (Score:3, Funny)
They would be arrested and tried for copying the ideas of Monty Python.
Re:Darknets (Score:3, Funny)
Not if the government finishes its work on the Trace-Buster-Buster-Buster-Buster-Buster-Buster-Buster-Buster.
Re:Darknets (Score:2, Funny)
while true; do wget -O /dev/null http://rnbxclusive.com/England_Can_Suck_My_Cock; done
Re:Darknets (Score:4, Funny)
have i gone insane or am i totally lame?
the answers to these questions are also filled with song
no need to sing along, sit right back and smoke that bong
that sounds a lot better than 99.9% of the top 40 garbage out here, man.