more on U.S. shuts down network that leaked 'Star Wars'

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
Date: May 27, 2005 11:20:22 AM EDT
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Cc: carl () media org
Subject: Fwd: [IP] more on U.S. shuts down network that leaked 'Star  
Wars'





> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Carl Malamud <carl () media org>
> Date: May 26, 2005 11:00:13 PM EDT
> To: dave () farber net
> Cc: Ip ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] U.S. shuts down network that leaked 'Star Wars'
>
>
>
>
> > [...go to the former EliteTorrents site, just to see the page that  
> > the
> > FBI and Homeland Security has put up in place of the regular
> > EliteTorrents homepage: <http://elitetorrents.org/>.  DLH]
>
> Dave -
>
> I went there and was intrigued.  http://elitetorrents.org/ goes
> to a frameset which includes:
>
> http://192.31.21.68/Shut%20Down%20By%20FBI%20AND%20ICE_files/
>
> That, in turn, yields this traceroute:
>
> 15  unknown.level3.net (64.156.191.10)  62.733 ms  44.501 ms   
> 45.521 ms
> 16  inet-sdsc-sdsc2--lax-isp-ge.cenic.net (137.164.24.206)  68.372  
> ms  47.105 ms  53.644 ms
> 17  medusa.sdsc.edu (132.249.30.10)  49.865 ms  48.938 ms  48.747 ms
> 18  www.dhs.gov (192.31.21.68)  52.224 ms  49.003 ms  47.183 ms
>
> So, unless dhs is tunelling inside of sdsc, this looks like
> it might be somewhat suspect.  :)
>
> Carl

    I also did what Carl did and it was one of the reasons that I  
suggest that folks take a look at the page in my original posting.   
Also, I found in a number of other forums that others also noted this  
curious fact.  Its hard to hide things from savvy folks on the Net.   
I also saw it reported the the  EliteTorrents BT tracker continued to  
work after the takedown, which would imply that some of their servers  
were continuing to function.  It would appear that all the 'raid' did  
was take down the website where folks would go to search for and pick  
up torrents.
    I suspect that it will be a time until we all hear the true  
story of what took place on this takedown of the EliteTorrents site,  
from any of the parties, including the MPAA.

-- Dewayne



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