{"id":9329,"date":"2013-02-22T15:27:48","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T21:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9329"},"modified":"2013-02-22T15:27:48","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T21:27:48","slug":"scammers-extort-bittorrent-users-posing-as-law-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9329","title":{"rendered":"Scammers Extort BitTorrent Users Posing as Law Enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>According to information <a href=\"http:\/\/fightcopyrighttrolls.com\/2013\/02\/21\/new-unbelievably-brazen-fraud-internet-copyright-law-enforcement-agency\/\">obtained by SJD<\/a> the accusations are not made up. This means that the IP-addresses were indeed \u201ccaught\u201d sharing the files listed in the letter. However, it is a mystery how the \u201cInternet Copyright Law Enforcement Agency\u201d obtained the home addresses of the subscribers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/scammers-extort-bittorrent-users-posing-as-law-enforcement-130222\/\">Scammers Extort BitTorrent Users Posing as Law Enforcement | TorrentFreak<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was only a matter of time before these kind scams surfaced.\u00a0 The outfit in question is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.copyrightlawenforcement.com\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 Fearful of real life charges of real crimes involving interstate commerce probably convinced them to publish this on their site:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Effective immediately, the Internet Copyright Law Enforcement Agency has ceased operations. Please disregard any notices you received from us, and please do not send us any payments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to information obtained by SJD the accusations are not made up. This means that the IP-addresses were indeed \u201ccaught\u201d sharing the files listed in the letter. However, it is a mystery how the \u201cInternet Copyright Law Enforcement Agency\u201d obtained &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9329\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[427],"class_list":["post-9329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-exploit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}