Before these days we noted that top up to the Super Bowl this saturday and sunday, a number of athletics streaming websites had their domain namesseized by the Dept of Justice and Homeland Security’s ICE device.
At the time there was no official announcement from the authorities, but ICE has now confirmed that this, their tenth round of domain seizures, is being branded ‘Operation Faux Sweep.’
In complete the authorities took down a record breaking 307 domain names. The vast majority, 291, sold counterfeit NFL merchandise and the remaining websites allegedly linked to copyrighted streams.
The total listing of seized streaming domains is firstrow.tv, xonesports.television, firstrowsports.tv, firstrowsports.internet, firstrowsports.com, hq-streams.television, robplay.tv, soccertvlive.web, sports95.net, sports95.com, sports95.org, sportswwe.web, sportswwe.television, sportswwe.com, youwwe.internet and youwwe.com.
In addition to the seizures, police also arrested 28-yr outdated Yonjo Quiroa of Comstock Park, Michigan. According to the press release Quiroa is the proprietor of 9 of the sixteen sites, which he operated from his residence.
Responding to the arrest and domain seizures, ICE Director John Morton declared victory.
“While most men and women are focusing on regardless of whether the Patriots or Giants will get on Sunday, we at ICE have our sights on a distinct sort of victory: defeating the international counterfeiting rings that illegally revenue off of this function, the NFL, its people and athletics supporters,” Morton mentioned.
“In athletics, people must abide by principles of the video game, and in existence, people should comply with the regulations of the land. Our concept is easy: abiding by intellectual property legal rights guidelines is not optional it’s the law.”
NFL’s Vice President of Legal Affairs Anastasia Danias welcomed the assistance of the authorities.
“We are grateful for Homeland Safety Investigations’ tireless efforts in combating intellectual residence theft and are delighted to be doing work along with them and the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department on this essential concern,” he explained.
The controversial seizures which commenced early 2010 have now resulted in the takeover of 669 domain names. The vast majority of the sites in query supplied counterfeit goods and 3 dozen ended up connected to copyright infringements. One domain identify has been returned because it was seized by mistake.
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