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Homeland Security Wants Mozilla to Pull “Domain Seizure” Add-On

Thursday, May 5th, 2011

Homeland Security’s ICE unit is not happy with a Firefox add-on that allows the public to circumvent the domains seizures carried out during the past several months. In an attempt to correct this ‘vulnerability’ in their anti-piracy strategy, ICE have asked Mozilla to pull the add-on from their site. Unfortunately for them Mozilla denied the request, arguing that this type of censorship may threaten the open Internet.

Source: Homeland Security Wants Mozilla to Pull “Domain Seizure” Add-On

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Firefox Add-on ‘Undoes’ U.S. Government Domain Seizures

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

The seizure of file-sharing related domain names by the US Government hasn’t been as effective as the entertainment industries had hoped since many of them simply continued their operations under new domains. To make these type of domain transitions go more smoothly, an anonymous group has coded a simple Firefox add-on that automatically redirects users to these new homes.

Source: Firefox Add-on ‘Undoes’ U.S. Government Domain Seizures

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Firefox Add-on ‘Undoes’ U.S. Government Domain Seizures

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

The seizure of file-sharing related domain names by the US Government hasn’t been as effective as the entertainment industries had hoped since many of them simply continued their operations under new domains. To make these type of domain transitions go more smoothly, an anonymous group has coded a simple Firefox add-on that automatically redirects users to these new homes.

Source: Firefox Add-on ‘Undoes’ U.S. Government Domain Seizures

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