IOC and the feds stop illegal ticket sales ... really slo-o-o-owly

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rmslade () shaw ca>]

"Olympic officials have turned to the federal courts in a bid to shut down two (of 
the great many) online companies suspected of stealing money, credit card 
information and passport numbers from people who thought they were buying 
scarce tickets to prime events in Beijing. The International Olympic Committee 
(IOC) and the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) won a restraining order July 23 in 
federal court that shut down one of the websites, www.beijing-tickets2008.com. 
On Monday, the USOC and IOC plan to ask a federal judge in San Francisco for an 
order to shut down www.beijingticketing.com, which remained active Friday. Both 
companies appeared to have been operating several related websites promising to 
deliver hard-to-find Olympics tickets. The websitesuse logos that look very similar 
to the official Olympic ones. The websites’ names also helped them appear atop 
search engine results. The sites said they could not deliver tickets until late in July, 
so many consumers did not realize that they had been taken until it was too late. 
While consumers who did business with the websites welcomed the court action, 
some questioned why it took officials so long to act. Officials at the USOC and 
IOC say that they are unable to provide tickets or refunds for consumers who have 
been duped. Olympic officials said consumers were told all along to deal only with 
an authorized ticket seller, New Jersey-based CoSport. Demand proved so strong 
that CoSport used a lottery to award tickets and quickly sold out."

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-olytickets2-2008aug02,0,221914.story 

Yeah, why *did* it take so long?  Why not contact the ISPs and hosting services?  
A group did that, to great effect, in real time during Katrina and Rita, searching 
for the hundreds of Websites that were being registered with the strings katrina, 
rita, hurricance, and "red cross" in the domain names.  These guys are too used to 
trying to frighten anyone who might have the word "Olympic" in their 
advertising, like Olympia Pizza, which had existed for 25 years before the 2010 
games came to town.  (Made fine pizza, too.  I recommend the deluxe.)

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