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Operation In Our Sites (initial phase)

June 2010, Piracy and IP
Led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations, National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center

Extended pass entry, last reviewed August 21, 2026

What was taken down?

Domains seized and replaced with law-enforcement notices; program continued with additional waves.

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What happened to the people?

No individual outcomes are recorded against this entry.
Group accounted for: Not applicable

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Did it stay down?

Not established in the public record. No later activity is recorded against this entry.

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ICE HSI and the National IPR Center began Operation In Our Sites with seizure warrants against nine domains offering pirated first-run movies, growing into a recurring enforcement program; DOJ reported 761 seized domains by May 2012.

Date
June 2010
Target
Nine domains offering pirated first-run films, piracy website
Activity
Piracy and IP
Operational lead
ICE-HSI and IPR Center
Jurisdiction
Not established
Outcome
Domains seized and replaced with law-enforcement notices; program continued with additional waves.
Status
Completed
Legal mechanism
Federal seizure warrants.
Group accounted for
Not applicable

No individual is named against this entry in the cited record. That is a gap in what has been published rather than a finding that nobody was involved.

Group accounted for: Not applicable

The cited record does not say how large the group was or whether everyone involved has been identified.

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Not established in the public record. No later activity is recorded against this entry.

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Official sources

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    Operation In Our Sites launched against piracy websites

    US ICE HSI / National IPR Center, June 30, 2010, Source grade S2

    Establishes the initial nine-domain seizure and the program's growth to 761 domains by 2012.

    No address recorded for this source. Publisher, title, and date are given so it can be retrieved from the publisher.

Coverage note. Added from deep-research aggregation pass. Not independently re-verified source-by-source to the same standard as the original 38-incident core; source_quality capped at S2/P2 pending a dedicated verification pass.