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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](https://takedownindex.org/organizations/u-s-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-homeland-security-investigations), [National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center](https://takedownindex.org/organizations/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.

[See what happened](#what-happened)

What happened to the people?

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

[See people and accountability](#people)

Did it stay down?

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

[See what happened afterward](#afterward)

## What happened

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

## People and accountability

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.

[See the organizations and roles behind this action](https://takedownindex.org/takedowns/operation-in-our-sites-initial-phase/organizations)

## What happened afterward

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

## Sources

Numbered markers throughout this entry link to the source that supports the claim beside them.

### Official sources

1.
[Operation In Our Sites launched against piracy websites](https://takedownindex.org/sources/us-ice-hsi-national-ipr-center-operation-in-our-sites-launched-against-piracy-we)

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.

Research context

## How this entry was checked

This entry came from a broader aggregation pass and has not been independently verified source by source. Its sources are graded no higher than P2 or S2, and most carry no address yet. Treat the figures as a research lead rather than a settled record.

Source review: Extended pass, not yet verified

Sources cited: 1

Research cutoff: August 20, 2026

Last reviewed August 21, 2026

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