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Feds disable movie piracy websites in raids
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Painter)
Thu Jul 1 01:42:07 2010
From: "Michael Painter" <tvhawaii@shaka.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:41:36 -1000
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
As randy said not too long ago, First they came for...
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) -- U.S. officials on Wednesday announced a major crackdown on movie piracy that involved disabling
nine websites that were offering downloads of pirated movies in some cases hours after they appeared in theaters.
Officials also seized assets from 15 bank, investment and advertising accounts, and executed residential search warrants
in North Carolina, New Jersey, New York and Washington.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials worked with the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and
other government agencies. The investigation involved about 100 agents in 11 states and the Netherlands.
Officials wouldn't say how many people were suspected of intellectual property theft, but said the penalties could include
prison time.
The raids were the first actions in a new "Operation In Our Sites" initiative to combat Internet counterfeiting and
piracy.
The government only seized domain names for the sites in question, however, meaning the computers that run the sites could
still be used under a different name.
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