The Super Bowl is like a goose that lays golden eggs from which hard currency cow cover . It give obscene sum of money of money . So , that could be why the DHS has stepped up its confiscation of sports - related domains in the run - up to Sunday ’s match — nuking a total of 307 disjoined sites .
The seizures were part of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement ’s ( ICE ) undertaking , Operation in Our Sites . chicken feed leveraged civil - gaining control law conventionally used to confiscate physical plus with distrust tie to illegal activity ( being stolen , fenced , used in another crime , etc ) . They exploited the fact that .net , .com , and .org are control by US establishment ( Verisign and the Public Internet Registry ) to not only take the sites but also require the sites ’ owners to leaven that they were not involved in illegal human activity . In total , 291 sites were snagged for sell imitative products and 16 were taken for streaming copyrighted content — one website owner has also been arrested for his involvement .
The DHS could n’t be any more self-satisfied about the successful haulage of unlawful site . ICE director John Mortonhad this to bawl out ,
While most people are focus on whether the Patriots or Giants will win on Sunday , we at chicken feed have our sights on a unlike type of triumph : defeating the international counterfeiting ring that illegally profit off of this event , the NFL , its players and sports fans . In sport , participant must abide by principle of the game , and in life , somebody must follow the laws of the land . Our subject matter is simple : abide by intellectual property rights laws is not optional . It ’s the law .
Some site have seem to have slide through the DHS ’s clutches and set up elsewhere . This also notice the first case of a .TV domain seizure . But with that much money at stakes , you may be sure these wo n’t be the last such situation scrubbed from the net . [ Geekosystem – Maximum PC ]
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