The illegal file sharing in America has now been stopped, never to trouble Biden's contributors again.
And, scene.
Feds raid alleged film pirates
Summary
A week after U.S. Vice President Joe Biden warned that the government would start cracking down on illegal file sharing, feds swooped in and seized assets belonging to operators of accused movie-pirating sites.
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A week after U.S. Vice President Joe Biden warned that the government would start cracking down on illegal file sharing, feds swooped in and seized assets belonging to operators of accused movie-pirating sites.
The government on Wednesday also took control of at least seven of the sites in question: Movies-Links.tv, Now-Movies.com, TVShack.net, Filespump.com, Planetmoviez.com, ZML.com, ThePirateCity.org, Ninjavideo.net, and NinjaThis.net. More than a dozen bank, investment, and advertising accounts were seized, and authorities served search warrants on residences in several different states.
Authorities are searching for operators of the sites as part of an ongoing criminal investigation, according to Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The crimes that the operators are accused of committing weren't clear, but some of the sites are accused of distributing film copies prior to their theatrical release.
For more on this story, read Feds seize cash, Web sites of alleged film pirates on CNET News.
Talkback Most Recent of 3 Talkback(s)
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HollywoodDog1st Jul 2010 -
Who Cares....
Blockbuster and DVD Fab.
End of discussion.
cyberslammer1st Jul 2010 -
Yeah you can rape the country in a million ways
as in a million (or two, or three, or twenty, oh hell, who's counting anymore) illegal border intrusions, but you don't dare disrupt the food chain of the Feds' pals in Hollywood. After all, the Feds were put in place for a reason -- which the rest of us are forced to pay for like squeezed lemons!
klumper2nd Jul 2010
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