Feds Seize 8 More Domains in Piracy Crackdown

[PorkChopSandwiches]

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The Department of Homeland Security seized at least eight website addresses over the weekend, bringing to 128 the number of domains confiscated as part of a government piracy crackdown.

The government is taking the sites with court approval, under the same civil seizure law the government invokes to seize brick-and-mortar drug houses, bank accounts and other property tied to illegal activity.

The seizures, first reported by TorrentFreak, came as Congress is mulling dramatically increasing the government’s legal power to disrupt and shutter websites “dedicated to infringing activities.”

The sites seized are:

Re1ease.net
Watchnewfilms.com
Dvdcollectionsale.com
Dvdscollection.com
Dvdsetsonline.com
Newstylerolex.com
Mygolfaccessory.com
Overbestmall.com
DHS’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency began seizing the domains last year in a program known as “Operation in Our Sites.”

[Teh One Who Knocks]

I've never heard of any of those sites :-k

[DemonGeminiX]

I give it a few days before mirrors of all of those sites start popping up elsewhere on the net.

[Hal-9000]

and yet a site like Pirate Bay still continues to operate...I don't get it

[Teh One Who Knocks]

and yet a site like Pirate Bay still continues to operate...I don't get it

They are outside of US jurisdiction....these sites must have been run out of the United States

[PorkChopSandwiches]

The US owns the DNS servers, so I would imagine they could shut down whatever they want.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

The US owns the DNS servers, so I would imagine they could shut down whatever they want.

I don't think they can without due process....that's part of the agreement (or rationale) of keeping all that here under US control

[Hal-9000]

it's the name itself that kills me :lol:

COME GET YER ILLEGAL GOODS HERE YE MATEY'S.....ARRRRGHHH

[PorkChopSandwiches]

Did you read the DNS TOS when you purchased your domain :lol:

[Loser]

Just because they shut down a domain does not mean they shut down the website.

You can still connect to it through a firefox plugin.

[samarchepas]

Just like atdhe...was taken down by the FBI...came back with another name within like 2 days :lol:

[Loser]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mafiaafire-redirector/

[Jezter]

Those sites are named exactly like the shit you get spam from! :lol: So maybe they are actually going after cutting down spam mail. No-one has even heard of those...the high-profile warez sites just keep on surfin'...