Feds and Hollywood Seize Domains of Movie Pirates

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 30, 2010 @11:57PM from the mine-now-I-take-it dept.

adeelarshad82 writes "The federal government and Hollywood teamed up to seize domain names of seven sites that allegedly trafficked in copyrighted movies without due payment. The so-called 'Operation in Our Sites' sting targeted TVShack.net, Movies-links.tv, Filespump.com, Now-movies.com, PlanetMoviez.com, PirateCity.org, zml.com, NinjaVideo.net, and NinjaThis.net. The operation was run by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the US attorney for the Southern District of New York, in conjunction with several Hollywood studios. Unlike past anti-piracy efforts, the sites did not actually offer the movies for download, but instead streamed the movies and TV shows against ads. Previously, movie crackdowns had concentrated on sites that distributed movie files, most recently using the BitTorrent protocol."

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Immigration needs to do round ups and not movies by Joe+The+Dragon · 2010-07-01 01:23 · Score: 0, Troll

Immigration needs to do round ups and not movies. People from mexico are taking our jobs for under min wage. So us citizens don't have to money to buy / rent movies.