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
(Excerpt) Read more at deadline.com ...
Too bad ICE isn't being used in a 'priority' way at the border or for processing illegals out of our country.
Stealing access - stealing land - stealing I.D.s
How 20th century;(
Agreed, unless those doing the crap were in fact illegals.
Homeland Security has sat in on these copyright enforcement meetings.
Hollywood owns the legislature. They are gunning for their very own FBI type law enforcement agency.
Misplaced priorities.
The moles who release these films are inside the studios, they aren't just filming the movies off the screen.
Securing the border... unenforceable...
Securing the Internet... easily done...
got it.
OUR COUNTRY IS BEING INVADED FROM MEXICO, WE HAVE MUSLIM TERRORIST SWARMING INTO OUR cOUNTRY AND AGENTS FROM HOMELAND SECURITY ARE FREAKKIN WASTING TIME AND MONEY BEING INVOLVED WITH FILM WEBSITES?
My thoughts exactly.
Protecting America from bootleg copies of Proky’s 3.
Great work guys....yeah.
Or how about the fact that going after copyright infringers used to be a purely civil act? You infringe on my copyright, I sue you. That was too inconvenient for the copyright cartel, so they paid-off Congress to turn the FBI into their own little copyright enforcement department.
Shouldn’t they be concentrating efforts on illegals? Just wondering outloud......
Does anyone know what the Government of Mexico Tax Administrative Service operation is that is listed at the bottom of the article?
Phew!
None of the ones I watch were taken down!
Now I can sleep at night...
I was worried Cameron wouldn’t be able to finance his next “American Culture is Evil” extravaganza.
Amazing: they can track down illegal websites, but not illegals flooding our borders.
I think their priorities are out of whack.
What a stupid statement. If I steal a painting, it's BECAUSE I respect its creativity and innovation. What I don't respect is the law.
You forgot the Russian spies. Don’t worry. So did Obama & Co.
Why don’t these people start deporting illegals instead of worrying about who’s running movies on which website!!!
Illegal invasion...check!
Muslim terrorists in the homeland...check!
Russian spies...check!
Top Priority: film pirating.
Illegal invasion...check!
Muslim terrorists in the homeland...check!
Russian spies...check!
Top Priority: film pirating.
What’s the occupancy capacity of the potted plants? Me thinks it’s been reached.
Meanwhile 526 new ones take their place.
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