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Domain names that facilitate illegal file sharing have been seized this week in what the New York Times is referring to as “the latest phase of a far-reaching federal crackdown on online piracy of music and movies” by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a division of the Department of Homeland Security.
“By Friday morning, visiting the addresses of a handful of sites that either hosted unauthorized copies of films and music or allowed users to search for them elsewhere on the Internet produced a notice that said, in part: ‘This domain name has been seized by ICE — Homeland Security Investigations, pursuant to a seizure warrant issued by a United States District Court,’” the Times reported.
“In taking over the sites’ domain names … the government effectively redirected any visitors to its own takedown notice.”
Among the domains seized, the Times reports, were torrent-finder.com and those of three sites that specialized in music: onsmash.com, rapgodfathers.com and dajaz1.com.
To read this report from The New York Times in full, see:
www.nytimes.com/2010/11/27/technology/27torrent.html
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