Today, Dept of Homeland Security Releases the list of 150 sites recently seized.

to use a tired and worn out phrase, "little steps".

"see how we are protecting people from the evil counterfitters". as if buying a counterfit jersy will cause anyone other than big business problems. just shows further proof on just who the government protects. but hey if companies would charge a FAIR price to begin with then there would not be such a big market for cheaper merchandise. lets see i want a team jersy do i pay $25 or $100 (or more) for practicaly the same item. the main differance being that the team it's self dosn't get to rake in megga bucks for nothing. which would you choose when liveing on a budget? they don't need to police it, the companies themselves can solve the problem by not finantualy rapeing their custumers at every turn.

but we will see people saying how great and wonderfull it is that the crooks (counterfitters) are being nailed. next they will likely move on to stuff like porn, yet again people will congradulate them for the protection. this will happen over and over till people wake up one day to find out that all we have on the net is government supported (dis)information. but when looking back won't be able to figure out how it happened, after all everything they did was to protect us. all they did was remove harmfull material from the net after all.

interesting i was half watching the news in detroit tonight, when my attention was caught by someone going off on how deadly it is for people not to have propper imunization, and how people will die because of it. how it was the internet's fault for giveing people the wrong information and how it needs to be stopped, as it is dangerous for society at large. that right there was a blatant call for censoring the net ,for our own protection of course. how many would cheer for that? i bet useing that reasoning most would agree that censoring that would be a good thing as it would help "save lives". see how easy it is to manipulate people into thinking that censorship is good.

as for the counterfitting it's self. let them be, if people want cheap stuff let them have it, if that bothers big business then let them compeate with them. i gurentee you that a good product for the right price will out sell a cheap nockoff any day. as far as i'm concerned copy rights should only last a couple years, not FOREVER. seriously why do we pay a company to be alowed to cut 2 slots in the top of a screw (thus forming a philips head). and why have we been doing it since it was patented? yes for every philips head scew and screw driver made money goes to a company just because it is pattented. why does this company deserve this? heck the inventer is long dead, but people still get rich off of his little idea. why? how much would the average consumer save if we didn't have to pay blackmail to make things?

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interesting i was half watching the news in detroit tonight, when my attention was caught by someone going off on how deadly it is for people not to have propper imunization, and how people will die because of it. how it was the internet's fault for giveing people the wrong information and how it needs to be stopped, as it is dangerous for society at large. that right there was a blatant call for censoring the net ,for our own protection of course. how many would cheer for that? i bet useing that reasoning most would agree that censoring that would be a good thing as it would help "save lives". see how easy it is to manipulate people into thinking that censorship is good.

I agree that it is impossible to save lives when nobody is immortal to start with so the argument TPTB use is a moot point!

Personal Disclosure: Because if they were 100% serious about protecting me ...say from aliens they'd allow me to have my own patriot missle battery in my backyards and give me the keys for it!.

Jesus, I hate how the government protects me.

Be more useful if they quit nation-building and warmongering (in our names and with our taxes) for our protection. That I could get behind.

But counterfeits? Are you kidding me? Still, they did what I'd do if I were defender of the Homeland (still makes me think of the Nazi "Fatherland"): First they do the high-profile stuff and get a lot of applause and approval. Then, when everyone's fat, dumb, and happy, and not watching so closely, they start taking down the more and more marginally "bad" sites. To hell with 'em....

Dosnt matter, I bet those sites have hundreds of other domain names pointing to them. Just because you seize a domain does not mean the server shuts down, it just means that www.blah.com dosnt work, you could still have www.blah1.com and www.blah2.com pointing to the same IP address. Its kinda pointless for the government to be wasting resources on something that is ridiculously easy to work around. I wonder how many hundreds of thousands of dollars were wasted on this BS. Just more proof that the government is clueless.

It is Immigration and Customs-- which is under DHS.

But while I have your attention, I would I just like to say...

GREETING!

MY MOST ESTEEMABLE FATHER, THE LATE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE FOR OUR AFRICAN NATION HAS AN ESTATE WORTH SLIGHTLY OVER TWENTY MILLION US DOLLARS AND I WAS GIVEN YOUR NAME....

Ha! I haven't seen those in a while, so my thanks to whatever government agency made those go away.

I have been guilty of purchasing counterfeit goods. Ill admit, its my guilty pleasure. I am broke and there is no way I can afford $5000 for a Chanel bag. If I can buy one for $30, I save money, I am happy and I look hot with my cute bag.. honestly, what is the harm in that? I know I will never be able to afford a fashion bag.. so let me live that fantasy and let me buy these fake bags from these websites so I can save some money for college and food.

They have no right to do this, they have seized sites that are 100% legal.

What right do the Americans have to seize a site thats 100% legal in Spain and is in Spain and run from Spain?

More evidence that the internet control needs to be taken out of the hands of the US.

This is money protecting money.. America is now sadly owned by corporatism.. Which is only answerable to the banking elite...

My tax dollars at work shutting down those sites. Silly. Had I known there were so many fake jerseys out there, I would have been buying them for years.