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U.S. Government Starts New Round of ‘Pirate’ Domain Seizures

Saturday, May 21st, 2011

US authorities have resumed “Operation In Our Sites” and have seized several domain names associated with copyright infringement or counterfeit related crimes. Among the new targets are two sites that linked to copyrighted films hosted on third party streaming sites such as megavideo.com and veoh.com. Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has yet to officially announce the new operation.

Source: U.S. Government Starts New Round of ‘Pirate’ Domain Seizures

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Homeland Security Wants Mozilla to Pull “Domain Seizure” Add-On

Thursday, May 5th, 2011

Homeland Security’s ICE unit is not happy with a Firefox add-on that allows the public to circumvent the domains seizures carried out during the past several months. In an attempt to correct this ‘vulnerability’ in their anti-piracy strategy, ICE have asked Mozilla to pull the add-on from their site. Unfortunately for them Mozilla denied the request, arguing that this type of censorship may threaten the open Internet.

Source: Homeland Security Wants Mozilla to Pull “Domain Seizure” Add-On

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