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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 lo

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-enforcement-agencies-seize-706-domain-names-selling-counterfeit https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-international-law-enfo... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodi_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodi_(software)

nthitz 10y ago
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.
- zbuttram 10y ago
  Looks like it might be injected by CloudFlare though, judging by the rest of the `<head>`. Does ICE change DNS for seizures?
  - nthitz 10y ago
    fwiw http://ninjavideo.net/ http://ninjavideo.net/ & http://rockdizfile.com/ http://rockdizfile.com/ are examples of previous ICE takedowns
    - hartator 10y ago
      Lol, it's interesting that fake takedown pages are better engineered than real ones.
SippinLean 10y ago
There was originally a rickroll link in the text