An apology.
Ok, so I was talking shit about the FBI, and I got called on it. I haven’t exactly made a habit of following FBI investigative techniques. Last I knew (circa 1995) was that they were still a bunch of techno-neophytes, buffoons, and imbeciles. I was politely instructed to brush up on my case law. It has always been my opinion that one is safest assuming that any federal agency will only change for the worse over time, so I assumed that they would have continued their ways of disinterest and/or inability in the investigations of computer crime.
Well, it appears that I was quite wrong. Not only are they interested, they move pretty quickly now. Things have come along way since the Mitnick era. It appears that one of the RIAA’s shills was using a company by the name of Revision 3’s BitTorrent tracker for their own purposes. And when R3 noticed it and blocked them out, MediaDefender’s (the aforementioned shill) servers had a hissy fit and took R3 down with a DoS.
The FBI is already investigating potential violations of a great many criminal statutes.
I’ll have my crow well-done, if you please.