US Customs vs the pirates

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

US Customs, a wholly owned subsidiary of DHS, has seized some domain names of 
companies distributing movies.

http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2010/07/takedown/

"Though the actual servers hosting the alleged pirate web sites resided in different 
countries (including the Netherlands and Germany), the video sites registered the 
domain names using US based companies."

Interesting jurisdictional issues.

Also, it appears to have been fairly ineffective.

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