“As part of (DHS) Agent Reynold’s argument as to why Torrent-Finder is liable he points to a series of posts by the Torrent-Finder Admin in
the site’s forums. Specifically, he names the following:

I was able to view several posts by the user “Torrent Finder,”including “Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent,” “Piracy in the Music Industry,” “Piracy Can Boost Book Sales Tremendously,” “The First Episode of ‘The Walking Dead’ Leaks to BitTorrent,” and “Piracy domain siezure bill gains support.”

“In other words, the “support” that Agent Reynolds provides for why Torrent-Finder’s domain should be seized is that he claims that
Torrent-Finder’s admin linked directly to infringing material. But that’s not true. Instead, the admin was simply pointing to a bunch of
different news stories. Even worse, some of those news stories highlight why the claims of the MPAA, which Agent Reynolds relies
upon, are simply made up — such as TorrentFreak’s story about comic artist Steve Lieber (which was actually based on a Techdirt story
about how Steve Lieber embraced the so-called “pirates” and ended up making a lot more money — we later interviewed Steve about his
experiences)…. How is that evidence of probable cause? “

The Emitown collection is coming from Image in a few weeks. We’ll definitely be picking up a copy.

It’s broken into five chapters. Grab them all! If you enjoy the story, use our paypal donate button. The suggested amount is $5.00, but anything  is appreciated.

You can read a bunch of my other donate-what-you-can comics at stevelieber.com.

Most of the blogging here is by me, Steve Lieber, the artist of Underground. Jeff Parker is busy writing the Hulk, or playing with his kids, or trying to clear some gunk out of an engine.

Download our complete comic, Underground: Chapter 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
If you like it, the suggested donation is $5.00. Paypal button:

If you’re an process nerd like me and like to look at the uncolored brush and ink line-art, you can download the first issue as a black and white pdf.
There are a bunch of other comics you can download for free at my personal site.

For the French visitors, you can preview Éditions Akileos’ excellent translations of my earlier books WHITEOUT and WHITEOUT:Melt at digiBiDi. If you want to buy paper copies of the French versions, you’ll also find links.

For the readers coming from slashdot.jp: Hi! If you’d like to share our comic on Japanese websites or message boards, please do! It’s very cool to think of the manga audience reading our story.

http://stevelieber.com/flytrap_issue02.cbz
Safari users crtl-click to download. Everybody else, just click, I think.

It’s a great little story, and there are more in the series. If you like it you can thank us by using the paypal “donate” thingy. But mainly just tell me if I did it right.

I can’t begin to say how thrilled we are with the response we’ve been enjoying. We’ve got more books on order from Image, and they should be here next week. As soon as we get them, we’ll start signing, sketching and shipping!

If you’re looking for a hard copy of the story right now, try your local shop, or TFAW or Amazon. Or we’ve still got some sets of the original comic series in stock in the Etsy store.

-Steve

Also, we’ve heard from a bunch of readers who don’t want another book in the house but still want to kick in a donation. So, here’s a paypal button. The suggested donation is $5.00, but whatever you can afford is fine.

I’ll have that those jpeg files for everyone really soon. The CBR files are up! Sorry for the delay. All this attention came as a huge surprise, and I’ve still got all my freelance commitments. It’s been crazy, but this (as Marlo Stanfield said on The Wire,) is “one of them good problems.”

-Steve