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US Government Seizes 18 More Domain Names

The United States authorities seized 18 domain names yesterday in a continuation of Operation in Our Sites.

ICE, marking Valentines Day, took over domains which they claim were linked to the sale and distribution of counterfeit goods. Unlike previous actions, no file-sharing sites were seized.

Operation Broken Hearted, as this wave of seizures was called, targeted sites said to be offering counterfeit items from well known labels such as Breitling, Burberry, Chanel, Coach, Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Nike, Omega, Patek Philipe, Prada, Rolex , Tiffany & Co. and Timberland.

“Even on Valentine’s day, American business is under assault from counterfeiters and pirates,” said ICE Director John Morton. “These counterfeits represent a triple threat by delivering shoddy, and sometimes dangerous, goods into commerce, by funding organized criminal activities and by denying Americans good-paying jobs. HSI and our partners at the IPR Center will continue to work together to keep counterfeit products off our streets.”

A list of the sites is available below.

* 1DESIGNERSCARVES.COM
* CHANEL-NEWCOCO.COM
* CHANEL-WHOLESALE.COM
* COACH-HANDBAGSSTORE.COM
* CHOOSEMYHANDBAGS.COM
* ECREPLICA.COM
* FABAAA.COM
* ICOACHOUTLETSTORE.COM
* KRZA.COM
* ONSALETIFFANY.COM
* REPLICA-HANDBAGS-ONLINE.COM
* SHOPPING-LOUIS-VUITTON.COM
* STORE-AOL.COM
* TIFFANYJEWELLERY-US.NET
* TIFFANYSALE-US.COM
* TIFFANYSALE-US.NET
* TIFFANYSILVERSALE.COM
* USCOACHOUTLET.COM

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  • http://billy.wenge-murphy.com/ Billy Wenge-Murphy

    These scarves are DANGEROUS. They could be programmed to kill. Think Towlie, but a thousand times worse! You don’t even want to know what it’s like to be TOO warm and cozy.

    Praise be to the police state.

  • Tonylee000

    If the ‘original’ companies weren’t such a rip off in the first place, there wouldn’t be a market for replica’s.
    On the other hand you can get good quality clothing at supermarkets and only the pretentious buy the ridiculously expensive and the muggle wannabes buy the replica’s so they all deserve to be ripped off imho!

  • DocGerbil100

    These tosspots are no better than the MAFIAA, IMO. I won’t miss them.

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  • Ninja

    While I agree that most of those companies charge their product’s weight in money and thus they end up encouraging piracy, they are making money over somebody else’s work (even if it’s by using their brand).

    I’m not sure if the law allows seizures with no proper court rulings but at least in this case these sites actually make money out of direct sales of products.

    • http://twitter.com/sheepodoom SheepODoom

      It’s the US Government it thinks can do as it pleases anywhere it pleases. However if another Country started seizing US websites there would be all kinds of holy hell raised on Faux Newts, Taliban Talk Radio & the GOP Teabaggers.

  • Ninja

    While I agree that most of those companies charge their product’s weight in money and thus they end up encouraging piracy, they are making money over somebody else’s work (even if it’s by using their brand).

    I’m not sure if the law allows seizures with no proper court rulings but at least in this case these sites actually make money out of direct sales of products.

  • Bigdipper32

    Last year i was attacked by a counterfeit Coach handbag, it was awful. At first glance it seemed like a harmless handbag, after a few months of use the handbag began joining mosque meetings and rambling about how the infidels that made it were going to pay. It started buying bomb making materials from ebay, i reported this all to the feds, but it was too late, my handbag was long gone and joined a splinter cell to perform a fatwa on member of congress, tragic.

  • Bigdipper32

    Last year i was attacked by a counterfeit Coach handbag, it was awful. At first glance it seemed like a harmless handbag, after a few months of use the handbag began joining mosque meetings and rambling about how the infidels that made it were going to pay. It started buying bomb making materials from ebay, i reported this all to the feds, but it was too late, my handbag was long gone and joined a splinter cell to perform a fatwa on member of congress, tragic.

  • http://www.facebook.com/Oyashiro.Chama Jacob Ruble

    if its not brought up in law they can do what ever they want

  • Torrentship

    Man, I love North America and their people so much, but it’s great to be a European and watch these stupid politicians game from the outside! We only have to stay alert that our politicians not start learning to behave as yours does. We have already enough troubles with Berlusconi and Sarkozy and their strange opinions.

  • Mm_3n7

    Everyone stop crying – each of these sites were only down for a few minutes. They are all back up under slightly different names or they already had a dozen mirror sites that were never touched. Yawn…

  • http://disqus.com/ Rob8urcakes

    OK, these are the type of sites that should be attacked by the authorities because the people operating them are deliberately using these fakes to make cash for themselves, and that’s just not on.

    The plonkers should just market their fakes at the same price with a proper name, brand whatever.

    What I find helpful is that the US State Dep’t is currently funding ways to get around state censorship of the internet by so-called rogue states like Iran, Myannmar, China, N.Korea, etc and yet that’s precisely the sort of software need to breach Homeland Security’s ICE site blocks LoL.

    • Anonymous

      Agree , these sites should be brought down.
      ( same as sites that sell Counterfeited DVDs ect.. )

      But sharing the design for the goods should be free for personal use.

      Or are ICE , going to arrest Little old ladies for Knitting copyrighted scarf designs ?

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