Feds Seize Domain Names of Korean Movie Portals

Ernesto
December 4, 2011
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Homeland Security’s ICE unit has started the ninth phase of Operation In Our Sites. Following on from last week’s action targeting online shops selling counterfeit goods, US authorities have just seized the domain names of 11 Korean movie download portals. For the first time since the seizures began the banner has been updated to include Korean language.

007 The Department of Justice (DOJ) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have confiscated another 11 domains names, all related to Korean movie portals.

The seizures are another iteration of “Operation In Our Sites”, the domain name seizing initiative designed to crack down on online piracy and counterfeiting.

This weekend’s actions are the first to target a range of sites that are not directed at the US public. For this purpose the seizure banners, which replace the site’s original content, are now updated to include a message in the Korean language.

The following domains are confirmed to be part of the most recent crackdown: 007disk.com, 007disk.net, 82movie.com, 82movie.net, 82us.com, bzserv.info, itvwmg.com, ktvwmg.com ,wmgitv.com, wmgus.com, wmgus.net.

The seizures were signed off by a US District Court and all 11 domain names are now in the custody of the federal government. On first inspection, the majority of the sites offered access to downloads of the latest Hollywood blockbusters for a small charge.

Interestingly, and this is also new, the domain names are connected to one company, World Multimedia Group, Inc. So despite the fact that the sites were targeted at Korean speaking visitors, the websites appear to belong to a Seattle-based company.

Seized banner, now also in Korean

korean

The authorities have yet to comment on this latest round of domain seizures, but we assume that it will be justified as another attempt to protect the commercial interests of US companies.

“Intellectual property crimes harm businesses and consumers, alike, threatening economic opportunity and financial stability, and today we have sent a clear message that the Department will remain ever vigilant in protecting the public’s economic welfare and public safety through robust intellectual property enforcement,” Attorney General Eric Holder said a few days ago, responding to the previous seizure round.

In total the federal government has now seized more than 350 domains as part of Operation In Our Sites.

Previously these actions have been heavily criticized, as opponents argue they violate due process and several other constitutional rights. Thus far these concerns haven’t held back the authorities from going after piracy and counterfeit related domains.

And it could be just the start. If the pending Protect IP and SOPA bills are signed into law in their current form, the seizures will be further legitimized and increase the rate at which domain names are taken in custody.

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Guest

Weird. Korean sites backed by a US company – and the company had no trouble?

No .org that time though
- Guest
  
  torrentfreak.eu FTW ;)
  - Guest
    
    Nice!
- Guest
  
  DDoS http://74.81.170.110/ ?
Anon

Maybe it’s time for them to register .kr domains.
mr X

What right does the united states have to seize the property of foreign nationals?
- http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
  
  None!
  That is the problem with these domain seizures. They go against years of jurisprudence and might be against international law.
  - http://twitter.com/richardford Richard Ford
    
    Since when is international law binding…. the whole concept of international law is a crock.
- Anonymous
  
  ICE’s claim is that .com and .net domains are US property, meaning that all hosting acts are done on their soil and done under their laws. Strange then that these domains do not have US in the name like .us.com and .us.net.
  
  Most Net citizens have always seen them as international domains.
  - SaveTheWelsh
    
    South Korea has heavy USA involvement in every avenue of business and control. It is almost another state, just like Hawaii!
    - LOLNO
      
      Eeeew.
  - lime
    
    I don’t get it, what reason do they have to believe that .com and .net domains belong to the US?
    - Scary Devil Monastery
      
      ICANN = US-based organization. The US considers this to mean .net and .com fall under US control according to “eminent domain”.
      
      A legal term meaning “Naked theft performed by government”.
    - Anonymous
      
      You may recall the time when ICANN wanted independence matching the desires of the Internet and that of mostly all other countries.
      
      The US Government’s reply was “no”
  - Guest
    
    It’s like to postal system — the British invented it so everyone but them has to put their country on the stamp.
    - http://tinyurl.com/ANoiXioNA-personal-info ANoiXioNA
      
      really ?
      Researched it……. checks out.
      
      Interesting fact of the day.. +100 for stamp related knowledge : )
    - Zig
      
      But it as an Englishman who invented the internet!
    - Ven
      
      @Zig
      
      Last time I checked, Al Gore was not British.
      
      /Humor
    - Danny
      
      @Zig
      
      The DNS system existed before the hypertext and www was created.
    - WardKendall
      
      @Danny – modern computers were invented by Alan Turing, an Englishman. If you want to play the “but this was here before that” game in an effort to have your nation take credit for something then even going back further, before Turing, you will find that the first mechanical computers were made by Charles Babbage – also an Englishman. Get over it, the role the USA played in the invention of the Internet as we know it was absolutely huge, but not complete. Its random chance that Englishmen started it off and ended it too, right from Turing to Berners-Lee.
  - Scary Devil Monastery
    
    Yes, but the US is here going with “eminent domain”. As ICANN possesses nominal control over and issues subdomains under these domains the US considers .com and .net to be under US control.
    
    This more or less ensures that centralized control over the net will be gone within years. It’s already possible to run decentralized domains. There just hasn’t been a motive to. Today, there is a great deal of motive for anyone who actually has a need to remain visible online.
    - http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IZ5BM5GNLA54OADSWGSXAMA7SY Jay
      
      Years? How the ICE is seizing this, I’ll wager there’s going to be instant pushback next year, a manner of months.
    - Scary Devil Monastery
      
      @Jay
      
      Hmmm…no, pushback yes, but the system will still “work”. The switch will come when it becomes harder to operate under ICANN’s domain system than it is without it. That is still years away.
      
      Then again if you’d asked me this years ago I’d have said decentralized DNS was decades off, at least. So I could be wrong and this happens faster than we expect.
  - DRuNKeN MaSTeR
    
    1. .com, .net and .org are general TLDs, just like .me or .info
    2. The only domain “belonging” the the USA is .us
    3. Good thing I have a .hu domain
    4. The USA should go f*** himself for playing internet sheriff and censoring the internet like this
  - http://openid.aol.com/sfmuscular SFM
    
    Don’t forget the origin of domain registrations, that Network Solutions, Inc. is the primary registrar for ICAAN
- NotTelling
  
  Every right when the purchase of those domains can be directly tracked World Multimedia Group Inc, a company trading out of Seattle. The Internet as it is provides many layers of abstraction, but eventually the money will lead to the people behind what is going on, and in this case those people are a USA based company. It’s the same for any nation, if the nationality of the people can be traced to a single nation, then the crime falls under the jurisdiction of that nation regardless of the domain extensions.
  
  Additionally the .com domain represents activities in the USA, as the USA controls all .com registrations. Just because people see them as “international” does not make it so.
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Cuntbutt

This shit needs to stop. Fuck off, ICE.
- Anonymous
  
  ICE
  Idiot Clown Enforcers……bunch of frakkin assholes.May they go down to hell and burn slowly
Spunky

I think that HLS has over stepped their boundaries this time. Just who do they think they are? Its high time the US citizens step up and put a end to their reign of terror, not just to the sites but to its own people. In the past the US has denounced the methods of the KGB and the Stasi, but now seems to have its own :( and since they belong to the US its alright???? I think not
- http://torrentfreak.com/ Rob8urcakes
  
  Yup, the USA has undoubtedly learnt lessons from 20th Century history, but unfortunately they’ve merely learned how to be more fascist than the fecken Fascists :o
  
  And allegedly all in the name of the fevered and frenzied pursuit of ever-increasing profit, as well as protectionism of US-based businesses which can easily be grounded in any Country that business would so please if they saw fit to move abroad.
  
  So I don’t see what the big problem is here. Why exactly does the US government get so protectionist of the MAFIAA? There’s gotta be a plethora of different factors, but what are they IN FACT?
  
  I think this needs a FULL academic, independent investigation by sociologists, economists and political scientists working in collaboration with each other and internationally too, to get to some sorta fact-based reason for this madness.
aaaaa

Is that a “become an hero” gun on the 007 logo?
TelezarZ

I think it’s time to start a big campain to urge webmasters to NOT registrer with US based domain names. Or even find someone with some billions to buy the .com .org .net domains and put them in Switzerland.
And, how far they’ll go ?? I mean what the hell !! Seize domain of a Korean website, and have the balls to write them IN KOREAN what the US law is, that do not even apply in Korea… What a pity…
- Johnboi
  
  “Put your data on a U.S.-based cloud, and you may just put it in the hands of the U.S. government.” http://bit.ly/rM1c8m
  - FuzzyDuck
    
    Never use a US based cloud service, is really that simple.
  - HollywoodAnna
    
    You’d have to be mad to put your data in any cloud services anyway. It’s not like we’re running out of disk space, or can’t setup our own personal servers.
    - http://torrentfreak.com/ Rob8urcakes
      
      It would be more accurate to say that you’d have to mad to have a US-based business that relies on the internet for making cash from people outside the USA.
- Scary Devil Monastery
  
  “I think it’s time to start a big campain to urge webmasters to NOT registrer with US based domain names.”
  
  That campaign is already running under the names of “PROTECT IP” and SOPA”. No sensible company will want to run on a .com or .org domain under ICANN’s control when any competitor can shut you down just by pointing a finger and presenting a credible claim.
  
  Given that many companies today see a direct competitive benefit in tossing up a false charge backed by a slew of lawyers to delay a competitor from even launching a product, do you think any law firm today hasn’t already formulated viable strategies to exploit SOPA for precisely that purpose?
  
  You’d have thought the assorted tort law scandals would have taught congress better. Apparently not.
  - http://torrentfreak.com/ Rob8urcakes
    
    The modern 21st century Luddites are all to be found in the US government, all because of narrow-minded, anti-competitive practices in which US-based businesses are supposed to flourish, yet what we witness is an international boycotting of the US domains due to their stupid seizures and over-zealous attitude of ‘self’-interest.
    
    What a bunch of freakin’ losers.
    
    USA = FAIL
    - Scary Devil Monastery
      
      More like the US started out well but after the second world war it all started going downhill. Mainly due to politicians being elected primarily because of their ability to suck up to the internal body politic rather than by appealing to the voters.
      
      The problem isn’t that they are luddites, the problem is that they are used to a world where every problem can be solved – or at least be made to go away – by using legislation.
      
      To put it bluntly, the US body politic is a “Peter’s Principle”-factory you use as a landfill into which you drop every clueless loser who isn’t fit to exist on the job market.
Anonymous

This is only a poor attempt at censorship. Since the hosting lives on then they can just pop back up under new domain names outside US control. We all know software that can fix that one.

It is not much surprise that ICE has attacked Korea when then once did Spain before even that one was a big foreign policy issue. I at least hope this time they had a chat with Hilary Clinton first or one of her lackies to make sure such an attack on Korea is in tune with their general US-Korean foreign policy.

Well if these Korean sites were done by a US business then it is time for them to run when ICE is known to go after the owners as well. Good luck on that one.

In all ICE are just messing about when if they were really serious about protecting copyright then there is a list of much bigger sites for them to seize starting with the number one target of TPB. You may notice that TPB have not changed their main domain almost daring ICE to seize it. ICE of course do not due to the big political fall out if not open warfare.

Well even if ICE are not yet serious then they are still testing the water and awaiting new laws to make what they do more lawful.
Guest

They also got to Kino.to. Two and a half year in prison

http://heise-online.mobi/newsticker/meldung/Haftstrafe-fuer-Mitarbeit-an-Filmportal-kino-to-1389294.html
- http://torrentfreak.com/ Rob8urcakes
  
  … for making 2.5million euros.
  
  Filesharers don’t make any money, any profit or any tangible gain. We merely share for the love of sharing with our fellow Human.
  
  Because -
  Sharing IS caring.
Anonymous

The Feds clearly have a whole LOT of spare time on their hands lol.
private-web.tk
Anonimouse

World Multimedia Group, Inc. is US based so I don’t how you thin this under Korean jurisdiction
- NotTelling
  
  Very this. The domains were bought by an American company, the crimes they participate in (however retarded the laws may be surrounding the crimes) fall under US jurisdiction.
Trespass

I want to know how sharing a movie a month before it comes out on HBO is a threat to Homeland Security. HS seems to give Carte Blanche for the government to do anything they want. Mainly infringing the rights of citizens around the world.
- Anonymous
  
  It isn’t a security threat, but it does deprive the makers of the movie of revenue, and yes, that is a crime. The name of the organization is unfortunate, and I don’t like the ex parte nature of the process and the often dubious information submitted to the courts, but sites like these are parasites engaged in illegal activity and deserve no sympathy.
  - Scary Devil Monastery
    
    And given that there is no hearing, nor a chance of defense, how are we going to make the judgement that these sites ARE in fact, parasites engaging in illegal activity?
    
    Because, to be blunt about it, if you were to get shipped off to guantanamo without a hearing, the same would be said about you.
    
    Ordinary jurisprudence demands judge by jury and actual evidence presented. Otherwise what we have is pure censorship on information deemed “unwanted” by any vested interest sufficiently disturbed to call out “J’accuse”.
- Ven
  
  The name Homeland Security is a misnomer. Agencies were reshuffled in recent history, leaving just about everything that deals with any form of non-domestic threat to American assets.
  
  Check the Wiki for more info.
Alyssa Blindy

I think I know how the US does it.
US agent: (calls ISP where website is hosted)
ISP: Hello welcome to XXX how may I help you?
US agent: We are federal agents. Give me xxx.xxx and we will give you $yyy,yyy,yyy,y
ISP: Okay, here’s the domain. (gives domain to US agent after verifying information)
Lol.
- Anonymous
  
  You’re right, this is exactly how I see it too:
  US agent: (calls ISP where website is hosted)
  ISP: Hello welcome to XXX how may I help you?
  US agent: We are federal agents. Give me xxx.xxx and we will give you
  $tax, dollars, at work
  ISP: Okay, here’s the domain. (gives domain to US agent after verifying information)
  Lol.
- NotTelling
  
  No, it goes like this:
  
  1. US Agents write to the registrars / hosting providers with court orders to shut down services and grant them access as well as an explanation as to why the courts have ordered such action.
  
  2. Hosts do as they are told, otherwise data-center raids start happening, which has happened before, and then their whole company is torn to shit because they refused to ditch a client who has broken their own TOS by breaking the law.
  
  Your tax $ actually at work cutting down crime, yet you still bitch about it. There is no pleasing idiots.
  - http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IZ5BM5GNLA54OADSWGSXAMA7SY Jay
    
    To add insult to injury, ICE can’t keep these domains. They’re going to start selling them eventually.
    
    This is turning into a worse perverse incentive than drug laws. Although… the ICE is exposing the problems with those laws too.
  - Alyssa Blindy
    
    Write to the registrars? I don’t see anything mentioned in any article or any research about these caesuras that shows that anyone had any idea the government would go and take over the domain. If you can prove that there is warning and time for appeal, then I would love to hear about it, but I have no proof of that from any of the research regarding these takeovers.
  - Scary Devil Monastery
    
    1) No, this is actually what doesn’t happen. No court is involved and no complaint lodged in any official channel. What happens is simply that the ICE walks in and shuts down a domain. That domain may contain lawbreakers but pot odds are, it doesn’t.
    
    Either way the collateral damage is much like that of shutting down the water supply to an entire city block because someone has found that one person in that block appears to be tapping one of the pipes. Last round of seizures was estimated to have cost 84000 legitimate users access.
    
    This all happens without a trial nor hearing, nor chance of appeal.
    
    2) This does not involve “hosts” of any kind so please go back, learn to read, and work hard at getting a clue.
    
    Your argument thus fails on every level. If my tax dollars were at work having some cops go out and circumvent every part of the ordinary legal system – especially the right to appeal, and right to trial – then I would get rather upset, i think.
    
    You’re right, there is no pleasing idiots – such as you, in this case.
Xxxxxx

the piont is usa congress do-sent own .com versign dose
- NotTelling
  
  What are you even trying to say?!
  - SickHippie
    
    Rough translation: “Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?”
:(

I’m not sure the feds actually want to take the large sites like TPB down. If they are successful, well – some funding might get cut. Besides, three weeks after the major sites go down, you know some 17 year old German kid is going to release a work around that makes it even easier to share and harder to track.

If the studios just offered a steam like service or a monthly $29.95 subscription to watch, read and listen to anything you want on any device – “piracy” would drop significantly.
- http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
  
  Good point about the Pirate Bay and them not really wanting to shut it down.
- Ven
  
  TPB is the high-profile file-sharing monster that the copyright industries want to keep in the media. TPB has been labeled as a group that goes ‘Fuck you’ to rights holders, law enforcement, and pretty much anyone that disagrees with them, and they haven’t worked hard to deny that image.
- NotTelling
  
  Easily publicly accessible sites like TPB enable copyright holders to catch the vast majority of idiots who don’t use private trackers. If anything, TPB being mainstream is actually enabling the copyright holders to catch and enforce copyright law more effectively and directly than if it didn’t exist. It’s come full circle – having a single place for idiots to come and download things illegally makes them easier to catch. Like shooting fish in a barrel.
  
  A clever fish knows to not swim in a barrel.
  - Scary Devil Monastery
    
    That can’t be the answer. You see, those “publicly accessible sites” you refer to generally don’t run trackers on their own. All they are is an index for .torrent hash sums which is perfectly legal.
    
    After that you can use i2p or ordinary p2p over a proxy and you are as uncatcheable as if you used an encrypted connection over a seedbox.
    
    The “private tracker” option is nothing other than yet another alternative and not exactly the best either I should say, as it cannot stand alone. You need i2p and/or a VPN in order to actually hide from the copywrong crowd as a tracker scrape isn’t what they use to determine which ip adresses to go after.
    
    Please stop confusing the issues.
Dwpbike

argh – leave korean movies alone. i like korean action movies more than kia. and no dialogue necessary.
Herptyderp

I hope Korea sees this as a hostile invasion. The US needs more wars.
Johnny

When I read articles this pathetic all I can do is *facepalm*…
LOLZ-ICE

Doesn’t ICE have other jobs to do…like chasing the millions of illegal aliens down “stealing” work from the “poor” Americans?

F*ckin c*nts.
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Last time I checked Seattle was in the United States. The United States has no official language so I’m not sure what different language you are referring to.
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Bjohensson

Web sites should not be using .com, .net or any other names under us control. The Americans have been trying to impose us laws on other countries for more than 50 years. This is not new. The domain seizures are just a continuation of this old us policy. If web sites are involved in p2p, news reporting that the us may not like, whisle -blowing, etc and they use .com, .net, they are just asking for problems. I hope isohunt.COM is reading this !!!
Anonymous

You can’t stop the signal. Downloading hasn’t dropped by a single byte due to ICE’s actions.
- NotTelling
  
  This fact is simply going to give the US government more and more reason to force through terrible censorship laws to stop individuals actions instead of the actions of organizations which enable individuals to act.
  
  Use. Private. Trackers. For all our sakes, if you are going to download torrents at least do it where no one can see you.
  - Scary Devil Monastery
    
    What you are saying is that people should use i2p. A private tracker alone does nothing.
    
    What you probably mean is “Use a sensible end-to-end encryption protocol on a private peer-to-peer client (i2p)”.
    
    Because, to be blunt about it, the tracker itself contributes very little towards exposing who you are or what you download. That part is gained directly from tracing the ip standing as a recipient of the downloaded packets. Meaning either stealthnet or a combo solution employing a VPN.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Don-Dilly/1624894683 Don Dilly

It may be nothing, but I cant help linking the US rogue state’s interest in that area of the pacific together.
Amongst many Pacific bases, they have for many years had a significant military presence in both Japan and South Korea and most recently announced a significant increase in (publicly known) military strength in the form of a new base in northern Australia.
It is in that context you should ask why the sudden interest in trying to shut down aledged unauthorised korean language media outlets that do not fall under the control of their south korean puppet regime.
It’s a fit-up

The sooner China bankrupts America the better.
- Anonymous
  
  America is already bankrupt but they just hide it by juggling the numbers and growing debt levels. Sure they can try to repay their debt in some major social hardship and suffering but these days production and jobs are moving to Asia meaning that the strength of China and India will climb while the US declines.
  
  China next year will overtake the United States on science. The US science budget has been in decline for years.
  
  If you want to push them over the edge then nothing will work better than another trillion dollar War. China may have the US economy in a tight grip but to sell up their USD would only be short term pain as other investors buy up cheap currency.
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Darkknight145

Why haven’t these seizures gone to some international court with some enforceable power to make them F@#ck off?
- http://torrentfreak.com/ Rob8urcakes
  
  Because the USA not only opted-out of International Treaties already signed, but also refused to sign new ones – including those of the International Criminal Court, eg -
  
  “As of December 2011, 119 states are states parties to the Statute of the Court, including all of South America, nearly all of Europe and roughly half the countries in Africa.[8] The Statute will enter into force for its 119th state party, Cape Verde, on 1 January 2012. A further 32 countries, including Russia, have signed but not ratified the Rome Statute[8]; one of them, Côte d’Ivoire, has accepted the Court’s jurisdiction.[9] The law of treaties obliges these states to refrain from “acts which would defeat the object and purpose” of the treaty.[10] Three of these states—Israel, Sudan and the United States—have “unsigned” the Rome Statute, indicating that they no longer intend to become states parties and, as such, they have no legal obligations arising from their former representatives’ signature of the Statute.”
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court
  
  All because the USA is against Human Rights law and International Criminal Sanctions that can be used against them because they’re just another fascist, anti-social, uncaring régime that has got too self-important to be a World-Player in cooperation with other Nation-States on our puny Planet.
  - Anonymous
    
    We may also recall that the United States has not yet ratified the treaty to ban minors serving whole life sentences. The youngest person to be jailed for life in the USA was 13 at the time of their crime.
    
    Most countries believe that children should be given a second chance once they become adults.
StiabhD

There are no intellectual property crimes because intellectual property is a myth perpetuated by those lucky enough to benefit from an idea earliest.
- NotTelling
  
  Except yes there are, there are lots of them. Your opinion would differ if you created something artistic that needed protection from illegal distribution.
  
  I do think that the laws themselves are restrictive and draconian, with copyright protection having an unusually large pull over law for such a relatively small market sector, but that doesn’t change the fact that intellectual property still does need protecting.
  - http://joshesforchange.wordpress.com/ Josh C
    
    The only thing my music needs protection from (and yes, I do make music, I’d be very happy to share if you asked) is a bunch of corporate tards who think they are entitled to more of the money I make off my product.
Randy

Hmmmm ninth phase of operations eh, what is the tenth phase going to be? May be the elimination of .com and .net, replacing with .ice
Guest

These sites charged people to download copyrighted material, they do deserve to be shutdown.
- Scary Devil Monastery
  
  And drug dealers should be arrested.
  
  However, what is happening right now amount to armed police shutting down a newspaper or your phone line without the sanction of a trial by jury or even a hearing.
  
  I.e. these seizures cannot even be determined to be justifiable as no such judgement has taken place, aside from a pointed finger by vested interests.
  
  And that is what is making this way of handling seizures so very very bad.
  - NotTelling
    
    I have no idea which facts you are basing any of your opinions on, but it is clear to me that your knee-jerk response has more to do with your latent dislike of the US government than this particular case.
    
    I get that the wire tapping is BS, I get that the restriction of the media is BS and I hate it is, but right now what has happened is perfectly legal and above board, and for good reason. If it turns out that there were a bunch of CP torrents on their trackers / sites, would you still have this huge problem?
    
    A US company has been breaking international copyright law and they have been taken down lawfully. Stay on topic and you will find that all the BS we have to suffer through is actually a lot less than we let ourselves believe if we fall to this kind of blinkered, reactionary opinions.
    - Anonymous
      
      Since this business is based in Seattle then their first step should have been to raid this business, arrest the people, and seize evidence. After a court case and conviction the domain can then be seized (or be returned to the market) as part of the proceeds of crime. That is what we call due process.
      
      What we have now is finger pointing, guilty until proven innocent, and the real reason of attempted censorship.
      
      Since this is also an attack on the infrastructure of the Internet then I would be surprised if you cannot flaw ICE’s actions.
      
      At least this time they did not attack Europe again and shit on the sovereignty of another country and the justice of their own law systems like they did with Rojadirecta.
    - SickHippie
      
      Really? Property seizure without charges is lawful now? Interesting…
    - Anonymous
      
      Yes property seizure without conviction in the US is lawful in some situations.
      
      The most common one applied in this case is when the evidence could be lost before the trial starts so it is seized to secure it for trial. That is limited in several regards and the one ICE use.
      
      They also have a law to seize property that is the proceeds of crime. This is such as the homes and cars of drug lords when there is little hope of conviction due to bribes, threats of violence, false witnesses and more.
    - Scary Devil Monastery
      
      “If it turns out that there were a bunch of CP torrents on their trackers / sites, would you still have this huge problem?”
      
      If the “takedown” took place without a chance for the site to defend itself in court or start an appeals process? Of course I would.
      
      “A US company has been breaking international copyright law and they have been taken down lawfully.”
      No, a number of domains have been seized, belonging to an offshore company, doing business in another country. The real-life comparison would be a bunch of US marines boarding a korean merchant vessel and confining it to port without offering either a charge or a chance of appeals.
      
      Where on earth did you get the idea that:
      A) This was a US company.
      B) Or that it was “taken down?”
      
      You’ll find the company operating under a new domain, i suspect. No charges levied.
      
      That US law allows such action is primarily comparable the laws which mandated that Rosa Parks, being a black woman, should have gotten the hell off that bus.
      “Lawful” does not mean “right”. And in this case it’s applied with a foreign company, not based in or operating in the US, as a target.
      
      I’ll grant you this: ICANN is US-based. In theory they have possession of these domains under “eminent domain”. In practice they won’t have this for much longer. This would make a far bigger stink if it weren’t for the fact that nearly all companies have re-established themselves in domains outside of US control as a result of this.
      
      What this stink is about is not so much the short-lived inconvenience of a few hundred thousand people and services risking having their internet visibility shuttered for a few days, but the fact that the US is utilizing hastily cobbled-together laws to circumvent their own ordinary judicial process…and then applying in practice that horrendous mishmash on foreign property with no reason given. As Violated0 has it, censorship under a “guilty until proven innocent” jurisdiction.
      
      Given your previous statement it would appear you are blindingly ignorant regarding exactly how this goes down, what actually happened, what the consequences are both de jure and in practice.
      
      I heartily recommend you deal your arrogance back a notch or two until you’ve earned it. Because so far your commentary does not impress. At least get your facts straight.
- http://torrentfreak.com/ Rob8urcakes
  
  I wholly agree 100% with SDM, but I do have a certain sympathy with your point.
  
  The “bottom-line” is the CopyWrong Cartel have failed to get their act together and take-up the wholesome beauty and goodness that’s to be found on the internet, and instead of updating their business models they’ve bribed politicians and our government officials to act on their behalf to the detriment of everyone else Worldwide.
  
  Not a very clever strategy for good consumer relations in future I’d say lol
- foff
  
  That may be so but do want the government taking down sites and regulating the internet? Do you want the US to rule the www and tell the world what sites are legal and which are not?
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foff

I would like to know what worthless fucking government troll has their head so far up their ass they actually think these actions have any meaning. What a bunch government ass wiping whores. Someone in government gives this agency a little power and they think they are saving world because they are acting like nazi fucking hitlers and trying to regulate the internet via government regulation instead of legislation. These ass wipes need to lined up against a wall and treated like the treasonous scum they are.
- NotTelling
  
  How is it treason to enforce the law of the nation when a US based company is breaking international copyright laws?
  
  Your type of retardation needs to be kept away from the Internet. It is comments such as yours that make me thing that Internet censorship could actually improve the experience of the average user, and that fact is a truly terrifying thing.
  - foff
    
    Really you want all your freedoms taken away? Get off of my planet
  - SickHippie
    
    Well, they didn’t “enforce the law”, they seized property and THEN tracked it back to a US company. Enforcing the law would be something like this: track down responsible party, gather evidence proving responsible party, raid offices of responsible party for more evidence, file charges, bring to trial, if found guilty THEN seize assets.
    
    Unfortunately, it went like this: get report with accusation, check out domains, seize domains through rubber-stamp courts, find out US company is behind it all, use US company to justify the unlawful seizure of property.
  - Scary Devil Monastery
    
    No US based company was breaking international copyright law. That’s the main problem with your claim. The korean companies were cut off from access as part of a very murky process which offered neither venue nor chance of appeal. Neatly sidestepping the entire issue of ordinary jurisprudence.
    
    It certainly isn’t treason. It’s stupid. The “US company” in question have had the domain seized because – to translate this to a real-life issue, They offered the equivalent of a service which translated a set of GPS coordinates into a map adress.
    
    Try to learn what “DNS” stands for and how it actually works. What the US has done is basically the equivalent of sending a number of thugs around with cans of tipp-ex to white out any offensive area of the maps found in a cartographer’s house.
    
    Of course when that happens the original map vendor goes bust for no good reason and the US has employed those map censors for null and nothing. No gain and judicially it’s a very dubious method more in line with old-style soviet information control than with any society which calls itself “free”.
Momo

This is hilarious. Korean site, in Korea, gets censored by US fascist organisation, US law gets cited in Korean text. Fuck off America, stop trying to apply your corrupt laws to the rest of the world.
- NotTelling
  
  Please get your facts correct: the sites were owned and operated by a company based in the USA. Additionally, this action has been taken against people who are breaking international copyright laws, please take a close look at where the corruption is here before spitting more nonsense on to the already nonsense-overburdened Internet.
  - Momo
    
    Duh, that just makes it worse! If the problem is on their own soil, they should prosecute the people responsible, not get customs to censor the internet!
  - Scary Devil Monastery
    
    “Additionally, this action has been taken against people who are breaking international copyright laws…”
    
    Again, no. If you own a domain as a registrar you have very little or no control over the use of that domain. The guilty parties were korean-based companies who committed crimes. The US-based company had zip, nada and nothing to do with said crime.
    
    They maintained a namespace which is the same as maintaining a map.
    The US sent in idiots with tipp-ex to that particular cartographer because the location the map displayed contained probable criminals.
    
    And this was done without venue of appeal or, for that matter, any judicial process involving a criminal trial at all. If you are talking about this being a “crime” then we are also talking about a trial where we skip the jury altogether. See the problem now?
Krkores

Hackers of the World, Unite, take down ICE, lets see how they like an invasion
- NotTelling
  
  For real? You want to give the US Government even more ammunition to start a smear campaign against “hackers” to get national support for Internet censorship?
  
  Just use a private tracker and stop bitching! Tor + VPN + Private Trackers = zero on-line problems without encouraging the governments of the world to censor and regulate the Internet
  - Anonymous
    
    First they came…
    
    Seriously, burying your head in the sand is not going to do any good at all.
  - Scary Devil Monastery
    
    Being quiet about it did black people in the american south a lot of good?
    
    No, seriously. Everyone stops making noise about it the only voice reaching the body politic will be the strident nasal cries of the copywrong fanatic faction.
bob

I sooo want to se the seized banner on riaa.com.
NotTelling

Sites operated by a US company have been shut down by the USA for breaking international copyright laws?

Where exactly is the problem?

USE A PRIVATE TRACKER! How many times can people be told this before it sinks in?!
Anonymous

I do like korean movies, but I usually dl them with torrent. Is there a way how to find old dns record for those seized sites so I can access them with ip?
- Anonymous
  
  Sure there is.
  
  ICE may have replaced the name servers but the public record still mention the old name servers. It is very easy to query the old name servers for the hosting address of 007disk.com
  
  That hosting address was stated as 174.127.155.14. Unfortunately it seems that following these domain seizures that “someone” also took the hosting offline when this IP even fail ping reply. Maybe they are changing hosting provider but not all sites do return to the Net following domain seizure.
  
  I will now check the other domains but 007disk do appear to be on Twitter and Facebook.
  
  Also I don’t know why everyone says Seattle when the listed contact details state…
  
  Kim, Sang hostmaster@007disk.com
  World Multimedia Group, Inc.
  16911 Hwy 99 #104
  Lynnwood, Washington 98037
  United States
  +1.4257438888
  - aelephant
    
    According to Google Maps, that address looks like a Subway. Probably bogus info.
Guest

originally .com were for commercial organisations only and you had to be a multi-country company before you could be assigned one. Now everyone can get a .com even if it is not commerical entity.

But if there is a .com registered in another country and hosted in a country outside of the US, does this mean that the US Gov can still take ownership?
- Anonymous
  
  Yes just like they did with RojaDirecta.
  
  It is the case that RojaDirecta had their .com and .net domains seized despite being a Spanish company, using the Spanish language, hosted in Spain and to top it off RojaDirecta won two Spanish court cases proving they are a lawful Spanish operation.
  
  It is then rather underhanded for the copyright side to then censor this lawful company through domain seizure. They can at least still be found on their .es domain.
  
  So if RojaDirecta got seized in total violation of due process then what hope has your innocent .com domain got? One complaint and gone forever.
Anonymous

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- Milan
  
  http://www.oesg.info/2009/08/05/employment-opportunities-online-are-they-trustworthy very fine.
Jtq

If all of this is to protect businesses AND consumers when are we going to see a reduction in costs for movies, dvd’s. etc due to all of this….. :)
Anonymous

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AnonymouSTL

Anonymous/CabinCrew/PoisAnon need to take down ICE… ICE is a bunch of Joe’s that were half-ass trained to hack… They are a joke.. And they need to be stopped…
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Anonymous

As the author already stated, this is hardly a new phenomenon. The US government has had a history of authorizing the far reaching and aggressive behavior of its constituent agencies in both domestic and foreign respects. In continuing its imperialistic policy, the United States is exporting its “laws” and “values” upon the rest of the world, as if they controlled all of it. Regardless of whether a country has strict or liberal laws with regard to copy and consumer right law, the US can, and will, have the potential to have jurisdictional in the enforcement of copyright. As US citizens, what can we do? Theoretically, we should stand up against this autocratic government of ours; however, as the Occupy Wall Street protests have shown, this would not be an easy feat, especially without the far and wide swath of support that the OWS protests have and continue to hold. Therefore, what are we to do against this? Should we simply be complacent against a corporation and lobbyist backed government that is, essentially, acting as a global police force on the behalf of the wealthy, or should we act up and make a “ruckus” about this. For regardless of whether the sites in question were hosting illegally copied movies, or any other material for that matter, the United States government should not have the ability to force its laws, opinions, and beliefs on people on the other side of the world who have no such belief. Copyright owners do indeed have the right to enforce the selling of their content and persecute those who do take without paying, but the manner in which they do so, charging obscene amounts upward of several million dollars for content that originally was only a few dozen, is criminal and should not be allowed under any circumstance, especially not outside the confines of the actual United States.
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Does “Violated0″ have a job?
- Anonymous
  
  Yes I do and since I am my own boss and it is Internet based business then I can be here as much as I like.
  
  Any other questions?
Guest

So that it’s mean that we can now take away the gov properties without due process.

Cool!!!! we need a lot of computers ICE has a lot of them isn’t it?

The chairs and the desk too? And the cars?

OK!
- Anon
  
  Me want Joe Biden Cadillac and also it’s TV screens!
Korea

I am wondering how the Korean are going to react when they read the FBI page writing about the US law in Korea:

“Willful copyright infrigeeeeeemmmmmment! is a federal criiiiiimmmmmme!. . .
gna gna gna gna gna gna!”

Are they fucking kidding me? Who do they think they are?

How can we take these clowns seriously?
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Anonymous

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I was being harmed, and I didn’t even know it.
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The united states was stolen from us indigenous Terrapin tribespeople by Krypto-Jews that originated in Egypt, which is the homeland their descendants should be securing. You so-called americans have no claim to our domain.
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