By Friday morning, visiting the addresses of a handful of sites that either hosted unauthorized copies of films and music or allowed users to search for them elsewhere on the Internet produced a notice that said, in part: “This domain name has been seized by ICE — Homeland Security Investigations, pursuant to a seizure warrant issued by a United States District Court.”
In taking over the sites’ domain names, or Web addresses, the government effectively redirected any visitors to its own takedown notice.
Bad precedent. U.S. Shuts Down Web Sites in Piracy Crackdown - NYTimes.com (via lkm)
Letting DHS take over here is a terrible idea, criminal copyright cases should go to federal courts not some ad hoc random bureaucracy…these dudes are stepping in my friends’ business (yeah I know tons of IP litigators). Not wise.
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