[IP] more on U.S. shuts down network that leaked 'Star Wars'
Begin forwarded message:
From: Bob Frankston <Bob2-19-0501@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: May 28, 2005 11:22:08 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx, 'Ip ip' <ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: 'Dewayne Hendricks' <dewayne@xxxxxxxxxx>
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.
-----Original Message-----
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Behalf Of
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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: May 27, 2005 11:20:22 AM EDT
To: David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: carl@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Fwd: [IP] more on U.S. shuts down network that leaked 'Star
Wars'
Begin forwarded message:
From: Carl Malamud <carl@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: May 26, 2005 11:00:13 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Ip ip <ip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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