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Federal courts order seizure of 82 website domains involved in selling counterfeit goods as part of DOJ and ICE cyber Monday crackdown

United States Attorney's Office, District of Colorado, November 29, 2010. The second phase of Operation In Our Sites: seizure orders executed against 82 domain names of commercial websites selling counterfeit goods and copyrighted works, announced 29 November 2010 by Attorney General Eric Holder and ICE Director John Morton, with 7 of the 82 domains seized in Colorado. Also establishes that the operation was spearheaded by the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center), which is led by ICE's Office of Homeland Security Investigations - the basis for the HSI lead and IPR Center co-lead roles - with CCIPS and nine U.S. Attorneys' Offices in support, and that the June 2010 first action seized nine domain names..

Source type
Prosecutor release
Published
November 29, 2010
Research grade
P1
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3

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Publisher
United States Attorney's Office, District of Colorado
Published
November 29, 2010
Source type
Prosecutor release
Research grade
Source grade P1
Language
English
Official record
Official publication
Address
https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/co/news/2010/November10/11_29_10.html
What it supports
The second phase of Operation In Our Sites: seizure orders executed against 82 domain names of commercial websites selling counterfeit goods and copyrighted works, announced 29 November 2010 by Attorney General Eric Holder and ICE Director John Morton, with 7 of the 82 domains seized in Colorado. Also establishes that the operation was spearheaded by the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center), which is led by ICE's Office of Homeland Security Investigations - the basis for the HSI lead and IPR Center co-lead roles - with CCIPS and nine U.S. Attorneys' Offices in support, and that the June 2010 first action seized nine domain names.
Dataset id
src_usao_co_in_our_sites_v2_2010

Research notes

  • The page is a live copy in DOJ's legacy USAO archive (justice.gov/archive/usao/co/), served over the pre-2015 template; it returns HTTP 200.
  • The on-page headline is set in capitals as 'FEDERAL COURTS ORDER SEIZURE OF 82 WEBSITE DOMAINS INVOLVED IN SELLING COUNTERFEIT GOODS AS PART OF DOJ AND ICE CYBER MONDAY CRACKDOWN' with the sub-headline 'SEVEN OF THE SEIZED DOMAIN NAMES ARE IN COLORADO'. The title recorded here is the page's own <title> element, which is the same headline in sentence case.
  • Scope caution for the citing record: this release covers Operation In Our Sites v. 2.0 (29 November 2010), not the initial June 2010 phase that td_2010_operation_in_our_sites is named for. The page describes that first phase only in passing: 'The operation builds upon Operation in Our Sites I, which was announced in June 2010. In that first action ... authorities executed seizure warrants against nine domain names of websites offering pirated copies of first-run movies.'

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