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more on U.S. shuts down network that leaked 'Star Wars'
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 17:11:28 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Bob Frankston <Bob2-19-0501 () bobf frankston com> Date: May 28, 2005 11:22:08 AM EDT To: dave () farber net, 'Ip ip' <ip () v2 listbox com> Cc: 'Dewayne Hendricks' <dewayne () dandin com>Subject: RE: [IP] more on U.S. shuts down network that leaked 'Star Wars'
Rereading this I realize that the headline is wrong -- EliteTorrents is not a network. The site itself didn't leak anything. All it did was advertise
the availability.This plays into basic misunderstandings of what the Internet is -- it's a misunderstanding encouraged by those who do want to see the Internet as just another television channel and who see networks as brands not technologies.
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David Farber Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 10:42 To: Ip ip Subject: [IP] more on U.S. shuts down network that leaked 'Star Wars' 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 ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as BobIP () Bobf Frankston com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ipArchives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting- people/
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