U.S. Homeland Security Shuts Down BitTorrent P2P Site
Ten people suspected of involvement with the EliteTorrents webserver were served warrants by homeland security agents. According to the U.S. government agency, this is the first criminal enforcement action taken against violators of copyright law who use the BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) file swapping software. The operation, codenamed D-elite, targeted administrators and content providers working through the EliteTorrents website.
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U.S. Homeland Security Shuts Down BitTorrent P2P Site
Posted by geeknews at 10:44 PM on May 25, 2005
Tags: Bit Torrent, bittorrent, Department of Justice, Downloading, downloads, Elite Torrent, elitetzorrents.org, movies, p2p, peer to peer, star wars
Posted in Commerce, Crime, Dave's Muse, Fair Use, Information, Politics, Services, Software, Technical
