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Kodi Domain Seized by ICE – Homeland Security Investigations

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28 pointsnaglis12 comments

I 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)

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 `<head>`. 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.

There was originally a rickroll link in the text

Wow, for an april fools joke they really went all in. None of their content is reachable - all that's left is the seizure notice. Now that's what I call dedication!

and 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.

april fools

domain: kodi.tv reg_created: 2014-05-29 19:59:29 expires: 2019-05-29 19:59:29 created: 2014-05-29 21:59:29 changed: 2016-02-17 17:16:34 transfer-prohibited: yes ns0: jo.ns.cloudflare.com ns1: toby.ns.cloudflare.com owner-c: nic-hdl: CF3454-GANDI owner-name: XBMC Foundation organisation: XBMC Foundation person: Team XBMC address: '340 S LEMON AVE #7222' zipcode: 91789 city: WALNUT state: California country: United States of America phone: +1.6784943762 fax: ~ email: email@contact.gandi.net lastupdated: 2015-08-07 16:02:15

April Fools'

Heh, got me good.

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