The Raw Story extensively quoted Craig Trainor in its article about the January 18, 2012, web-based boycott of proposed anti-piracy legislation. Along with Wikipedia and numerous other sites, FreeOnSmash.com joined the boycott and went dark for the day to protest this ill-conceived legislation.  See Andrew Jones, Censored hip-hop blog demands justice, joins anti-piracy boycott, Raw Story, Jan. 19, 2012, available at

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/19/censored-hip-hop-blog-demands-justice-joins-anti-piracy-boycott/

The New York Times cited the OnSmash.com case in relation to the federal government’s returning Dajaz1.com’s domain to its owner. See Ben Sisario, How a Music Site Disappeared for a Year, N.Y. Times, Dec. 9, 2011, available at

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/09/how-a-music-site-disappeared-for-a-year/

Craig Trainor and his client, Kevin Hofman, founder of OnSmash.com, sat down with The New York Times to discuss the United States Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s unprecedented seizure of OnSmash.com’s domain on Thanksgiving, 2010. See Ben Sisario, Piracy Fight Shuts Down Music Blogs, N.Y. Times, Dec. 13, 2010, available at

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/14/business/media/14music.html

MTV News covered OnSmash.com’s relaunching of its new website, FreeOnSmash.com, quoting Mr. Hofman as saying: “We remain committed to liberating our original domain. . . . Our new motto is “It’s FreeOnSmash until they free OnSmash.’” See Alvin Blanco, Hip-Hop Site FreeOnSmash Debuts After OnSmash Seizure, MTV News, Jan. 19, 2011, available at

http://rapfix.mtv.com/2011/01/19/hip-hop-site-freeonsmash-rises-from-the-ashes-of-onsmash/