Kodi Domain Seized by ICE – Homeland Security Investigations
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#2April Fools'
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#3April Fools'
Heh, got me good.
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#4and so it begins, the April fools jokes I mean (and also the further crack down on pirated consumption)
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#5I don't want to be this guy, but it doesn't look like an April fool joke to me.
ICE does seize domains for counterfeit merchandiss. [1] Also Kodi has done a lot of job to distance itself from things like that by being a non-profit foundation, being open-source, not furnishing any pirated content directly on their site, etc. [2] It will be very odd way to communicate like this for a project that seems to aim maintaining a low profile a top priority.
[1] https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-international-law-enfo... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodi_(software)
Re: Kodi Domain Seized by ICE – Homeland Security Investigations
#6I don't want to be this guy, but it doesn't look like an April fool joke to me. ICE does seize domains for counterfeit merchandiss. [1] Also Kodi has done a lot of job to distance itself from things like that by being a non-profit foundation, being open-source, not furnishing any pirated content directly on their site, etc. [2] It will be very odd way to communicate like this for a project that seems to aim maintaini…
Looking at the page source code you see a google analytics tracker of `UA-3066672-1`. Quick google search shows that that ID has been associated with Kodi for some time. Probably unlikely that ICE would retain the original analytics code.
Re: Kodi Domain Seized by ICE – Homeland Security Investigations
#7I don't want to be this guy, but it doesn't look like an April fool joke to me. ICE does seize domains for counterfeit merchandiss. [1] Also Kodi has done a lot of job to distance itself from things like that by being a non-profit foundation, being open-source, not furnishing any pirated content directly on their site, etc. [2] It will be very odd way to communicate like this for a project that seems to aim maintaini…
Looking at the page source code you see a google analytics tracker of `UA-3066672-1`. Quick google search shows that that ID has been associated with Kodi for some time. Probably unlikely that ICE would retain the original analytics code.
Looks like it might be injected by CloudFlare though, judging by the rest of the ``. Does ICE change DNS for seizures?
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Looking at the page source code you see a google analytics tracker of `UA-3066672-1`. Quick google search shows that that ID has been associated with Kodi for some time. Probably unlikely that ICE would retain the original analytics code.
Looks like it might be injected by CloudFlare though, judging by the rest of the ` `. Does ICE change DNS for seizures?
fwiw http://ninjavideo.net/ & http://rockdizfile.com/ are examples of previous ICE takedowns
Re: Kodi Domain Seized by ICE – Homeland Security Investigations
#9and so it begins, the April fools jokes I mean (and also the further crack down on pirated consumption)
I hope that this is an April fools joke... I'm not sure that it's even funny in any light.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Looks like it might be injected by CloudFlare though, judging by the rest of the ` `. Does ICE change DNS for seizures?
fwiw http://ninjavideo.net/ & http://rockdizfile.com/ are examples of previous ICE takedowns
Lol, it's interesting that fake takedown pages are better engineered than real ones.