Feds Seize 18 More Domains in Piracy Crackdown

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While we are on the subject of piracy, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement have seized another 18 domains in its worldwide crackdown on piracy. This brings the number of seized sites to almost one hundred and twenty.

“These counterfeits represent a triple threat by delivering shoddy, and sometimes dangerous, goods into commerce, by funding organized criminal activities and by denying Americans good-paying jobs. HSI and our partners at the IPR Center will continue to work together to keep counterfeit products off our streets,” ICE Director John Morton said in a statement.
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The title is somewhat misleading as this had less to do with piracy and more to do with selling cheap imitation knockoffs.
 
they really should crack down on these sites a few days earlier,

Say the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, December 1, December 26, and february1, (two weeks before major online purchasing days, other than cyber Monday, hit them the Friday after thanksgiving.

Although they are probably able to get companies with their junk in the wrong place because of the surge of sales on the holiday purchasing days.
 
kirbyrj said:
The title is somewhat misleading as this had less to do with piracy and more to do with selling cheap imitation knockoffs.
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Yeah, I was wondering about the "Immigration and Customs Enforcement" bit.. Didn't really make sense. It's not like you can quarantine all Internet traffic in customs or check that there are no illegal immigrant packets hidden in there..
 
Go .p2p peer to peer based DNS! Separation of Internet and State.

My only problem is that porn sites are going to try and abuse the .p2p system, that and there hasn't been any .p2p news since its initial announcement.
 
Beauty sites?

1DESIGNERSCARVES.COM
CHANEL-NEWCOCO.COM
CHANEL-WHOLESALE.COM
COACH-HANDBAGSSTORE.COM
CHOOSEMYHANDBAGS.COM
ECREPLICA.COM
FABAAA.COM
ICOACHOUTLETSTORE.COM
KRZA.COM
ONSALETIFFANY.COM
REPLICA-HANDBAGS-ONLINE.COM
SHOPPING-LOUIS-VUITTON.COM
STORE-AOL.COM
TIFFANYJEWELLERY-US.NET
TIFFANYSALE-US.COM
TIFFANYSALE-US.NET
TIFFANYSILVERSALE.COM
USCOACHOUTLET.COM
 
What I find funny is how the article states it costs Americans "high paying jobs", when the counterfeit products are made in the same countries as the originals ! Either way, neither product creates high paying jobs for Americans.
 
FragMagnet said:
What I find funny is how the article states it costs Americans "high paying jobs", when the counterfeit products are made in the same countries as the originals ! Either way, neither product creates high paying jobs for Americans.
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They worry about the immigrants getting screwed..
 
FragMagnet said:
What I find funny is how the article states it costs Americans "high paying jobs", when the counterfeit products are made in the same countries as the originals ! Either way, neither product creates high paying jobs for Americans.
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It denies Americans jobs in retail stores, maybe. "Good-paying jobs" though?
 
Amazing to see what juice designer outfits have to direct taxpayers money into protecting their profits.
 
Shamb1es said:
Time to take the internet away from the United States.
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If you look at what sites they are, they are just spam n scam sites, no great loss, and the scammers probably open a new site in half an hour. Basically what the government has have done amounts to almost nothing.
(and it probably cost millions)
 
Thuleman said:
Amazing to see what juice designer outfits have to direct taxpayers money into protecting their profits.
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There's no protection for designer outfits. You can make an exact replica of any designer gown and legally sell it. What is illegal is claiming it was made by the original designer when it wasn't. That's (rightfully) called fraud.
 
I wonder if this means that ebay will be seized one of these days lol. There's lots of counterfeit items listed...
 
McG2k1 said:
yay obamacare!!
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Apparently this guy thinks medicaid is a charity program run by Taco Bell.
 
obs said:
There's no protection for designer outfits. You can make an exact replica of any designer gown and legally sell it. What is illegal is claiming it was made by the original designer when it wasn't. That's (rightfully) called fraud.
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I agree with what you are saying. What I don't get is how a consumer can reasonably expect to get an authentic original when visiting REPLICA-HANDBAGS-ONLINE.COM
 
Actually these sites SUPPORT high paying jobs in the US. Have you seen what federal agents make?!
 
These sites are hosted outside of the US, and products produced outside of the US.
What authority does the US have seizing these domains? Absolutely none!
Stop trying to impose US law across the world! Ridiculous...

Seize the product at the boarder, make US ISPs restrict traffic.
These are thing the US government can do...
Screwing with a world wide DNS system is NOT!
 
Loto_Bak said:
These sites are hosted outside of the US, and products produced outside of the US.
What authority does the US have seizing these domains? Absolutely none!
Stop trying to impose US law across the world! Ridiculous...

Seize the product at the boarder, make US ISPs restrict traffic.
These are thing the US government can do...
Screwing with a world wide DNS system is NOT!
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I totally agree. While we're at it. Let's stop worrying about other countries and their civil rights, or humanity. As far as I am concerned, they're no more important than knock off handbags are.

Let's lump it all together and just flush it all down the toilet, cause the world doesn't hate us enough already when we help, so let's just drop a nuke on their lives and be done with it. Cya in Soapbox, we'll continue this :)
 
No problem with government shutting down people who try to profit by ripping off the works of others.

And yes, the title is misleading.
 
A lot of these seized domain's don't even have any piracy of any kind going on, as comes clear from other forums searching.
 
Keno said:
I wonder if this means that ebay will be seized one of these days lol. There's lots of counterfeit items listed...
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I wish, but highly doubt this will ever happen. I have noticed a lot of counterfeit USB drives. Sooner or later they will get caught though.

-Xzi
 
Thanks, Homeland Security! I feel like my homeland is much more secure now that people can't get cheap knockoff purses! We may have had a faux-fashionable 9/11 on our hands had the Department of Homeland Security not stepped in!

Glad my tax dollars are being put to good use, keeping us safe from "Louiz Viouttun" purses.
 
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