Posted on 07/01/2010 1:17:00 PM PDT by alexandria
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) announced the launch Wednesday of “Operation In Our Sites,” a new initiative aimed at Internet counterfeiting and piracy. In the first action carried out as part of the initiative, authorities seized nine domain names of Web sites that were offering first-run movies, often within hours of their theatrical release. Seven of those sites were targeted for seizure by the SDNY. Agents from ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) also seized assets from 15 bank, Paypal, investment and advertising accounts, and executed four residential search warrants in several states.
ICE Assistant Secretary John Morton, joined on a Los Angeles soundstage by senior representatives from major movie studios, entertainment unions and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), made clear that the theft of such intellectual property is a serious crime and one the U.S. government has made a priority combating
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WTH does ICE have to do with internet movies?
they will now know the IP’s of everyone who downloaded from those sites.
but but we can’t stop illegal aliens
the most prolific pirate I have heard of was out of Canada.
Your Intellectual Property ie. Your ID and documents of your Identity are meaningless to ICE.
But a Hollyweird movie, totally priority #1 for ICE.
The Hollywood elite have powerful friends in D.C. The heck with protecting our borders, let's keeps these guys rich.
I feel my family is infinitely safer knowning that algore’s next propaganda movie on global warming won’t be the object of copyright infringement.
Which websites will be the next targets?????? How about a well moderated, conservative website?
I’ve never been easily frightened, but obama and his anti-American appointees truly scare me.
God bless and save our country.
EODGUY
Those guys names had better be Muhammad or Juan!
Spot. On.
This should be the task of the FBI, not ICE.
Obambi’s Justice Department is trying to make it look like ICE is just too busy to be bothered with securing our borders.
While I too do not condone on the internet piracy and other internet-related crimes, this is TRULY a waste of precious resources which should go to policing our borders.
Great now if they could go after the pirated e-books sites that would make me a lot happier.
serious crime and one the U.S. government has made a priority
VS illegal aliens
Oh I take it back.
I’m missing one. Actually, the best one.
http://www.movies-links.tv/movies/
It will be back.
But, instead ... might I suggest that you leave that to the FBI, and YOU concentrate on Immigration:
Hint: not ALL of them are breaking the law to simply find a job ...
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