As I’ve previously blogged, the traffic to TPB in Italy is redirected to Ifpi. Since they suck at how internets work, they didn’t understand that bloggers and geeks would easily find out that this server belongs to Ifpi. Checking the reverse DNS showed that it was the same server as pro-music.org – an Ifpi campaign site – was running on.
The reverse DNS have now mysteriously changed. It’s no longer got pro-music.org as a reverse, it’s “localhost” instead. Still, it’s already in print and the information was stored many places.
So their lame attempt of obstruction of justice has no effect – instead, they’re simply showing that they did something stupid and trying to hide the error. But the internets never forget. This is hopefully going to bite them in the ass.
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Kick the tyrants to death.
Well said Peter, someone here did some stupid bullshit, and now that they feel their ass trembling, they are trying to cover up. The italian government’s department for privacy (one of the few on the citizen’s side) has privately announced to Repubblica (one of the largest newspapers) that they are “acquiring details on the matter and will investigate promptly”. This might explain why they changed so fast the reverse DNS. Barely from assumptions, looks like a private joint initiative between some ISP and the italian financial police.
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