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FBI and U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement raiding BitTorrent Sites

It looks like today, the Gestapo err FBI and ICE have started to crack down on BitTorrent sites through out America. It Looks like EliteTorrents is gone, at first many people thought this was a DNS hack that brought down the site, now however more information has been released confirming this was done by the Government.

Building on the success of Operation Gridlock, a similar takedown announced by federal law enforcement last August that has already led to the felony convictions of three P2P copyright thieves, Operation D-Elite targeted the administrators and “first providers” or suppliers of copyrighted content to the Elite Torrents network. By utilizing BitTorrent, the newest generation of P2P technology, Elite Torrents members could download even the largest files-such as those associated with movies and software-far faster than was possible using more traditional P2P technology.

The content selection available on the Elite Torrents network was virtually unlimited and often included illegal copies of copyrighted works before they were available in retail stores or movie theatres. For example, the final entry in the Star Wars series, “Episode III: Revenge of the Sith,” was available for downloading on the network more than six hours before it was first shown in theatres. In the next 24 hours, it was downloaded more than 10,000 times.

On top of EliteTorrents going down, it looks like alot of other sites are closing their doors and trashing what they can, take BitAnce for example.

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