Andre Yoskowitz
27 Nov 2010 0:39
The U.S. government has taken down Torrent-Finder.com today, among others, seizing the sites without any prior warnings.
A number of other sites, such as 2009jerseys.com, and Dvdcollects.com, were also seized, because they link to counterfeit goods.
Torrent-Finder offers links to unauthorized music tracks and movies.
The homepage of the sites now say: "This domain name has been seized by ICE--Homeland Security Investigations, pursuant to a seizure warrant issued by a United States District Court."
In the notices, the Department of Justice, the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center, and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement arm of Homeland Security Investigations are all named.
Torrent-Finder did not have its own tracker, however, and instead acted as a "search engine" for public links to copyrighted material.