It may not be public pressure per se
[QUOTE=Tampa Bum;1097199]I'm sure BP is getting legal advice to try an avoid the public pressure that was applied to CL. It's not going to work.[/QUOTE]Homeland Security is taking over websites of those who allow the pirating of software, who's to say they won't threaten to take over other sites as well?
An WTF does pirated software and movies, etc have to with security?
Notice has been served, Big Brother is watching.
Those who voted for Hope & Change got plenty of the latter and none of the former.
Seizing domain names or sites. Same diff?
[QUOTE=Tampa Bum; 1097723]ICE is acting as an agent for copyright holders, and they've seized the domain names, not the sites (most if not all of which are offshore.) The larger ones have already re-registered with TLDs where the registrars are outside the US.
You can argue the legality, usefulness, or politics of ICE's actions, but they aren't really germane here. The Feds rarely get involved with prostitution at the retail level. Ambitious state and local level AGs, on the other hand. . . [/QUOTE]So seizing domain names doesn't shut down the traffic?
Again WTF does pirated commercial off the shelf software have to do with National Security? At the least prostitution / sex has been used in the past as a means to gather info on governments.
If this new Federal government wants to get involved in something it doesn't worry about semantics (or the law) it shows more than a passing interest in just jumping in and doing what it wants to do.
Hot to look at, not with the touch
[QUOTE=Best Swimmer;1097794]Topless only. Your hands not allowed south. Clock watcher. She's hot but not for me at that price.[/QUOTE]I concur. Very nice to look at, and while by no means an LMT rub, a decent rubdown. I've seen her twice for 1hr sessions. She wore a neglige which she kept on, allowing her girls to peek out the top. No problem with NE but the southern territories were off limits. The HE was performed dutifully, but with no heat. She sat there and made small-talk while stroking. If she got naked, got up on the table with you, and did some body-to-body rubbing with the HJ I'd be back in a flash, but not for the chit-chat.