Last week while everyone was waiting for the COICA bill to move through Congress, the US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency one upped the Attorney General and seized domain names from a group of over 70 copyright infringing websites. A visit to the blacklisted domains now results in the ominous looking message from Homeland Security below.

While the graphic is pretty scary, Market Ticker&'sa4s��Karl Denninger points out the websites themselves and the servers they run on have not actually been seized, just the domains.

&''That&'s a lot of staff attorney time and trouble to get a big fat nothing out of it, which is exactly what they get going down this road.a4s�� Whya4s�� Because all they can do is redirect the domain pointers which will do exactly nothing when the sites re-register under a top-level domain not under the US Government&'s jurisdiction &8211' and there are lots of them.&''

Domains under US jurisdiction currently include anything controlled by Verisign which puts .com site owners in a legal relationship with the United States. According to Denninger, all afflicted site owners need to do is move to a non-US controlled top level domain in order to avoid further ICE seizures.

Some have already started to migrate to other domains, though it&'s likely choices like .net won&'t be any safer. Torrent-Finder owner Waleed Gad El Kareem said he switched his site over to Torrent-Finder.info the moment he saw the ICE message on Torrent-Finder.com, posting the new site&'s address on Twitter.

@RapGodFathersRapGodFathers.info ARTISTS: If you oppose the seizure of @OnSMASH pls send an email to gmail.com&''>freeonsmash@gmail.com &' express why. Your participation is appreciated!

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