US Gov't Shuts Down Several Piracy Websites

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Originally Posted by artwilliams

If they are offshore then they are out of the reach of the DOJ.

Greater enforcement is a lobbying priority for the entertainment industry, which has lost sales as consumers gain access to free music and movies on the Web. The administration of President Barack Obama is intensifying efforts to rein in pirated movies and music, Victoria Espinel, the U.S. intellectual property enforcement officer, told the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 23, vowing to shut non-U.S. sites.
“We will go after the foreign-based websites and Web services that infringe our intellectual property rights,” Espinel told the panel.
The U.S. sought search warrants to retrieve data from the hard drives of servers in the U.S. that are used to deliver movies, a government employee with knowledge of the operation said before the announcement. Sites located off U.S. shores were to be blocked, with users re-directed to a U.S. government site, said the person, who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly on pending enforcement actions.


that sounds to me there no longer untouchable - blocked out or shut down is good enough for me

atleast something is starting to be done