US officials seize movie piracy websites

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials working with the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York seized assets from 15 bank, investment and advertising accounts, and executed residential search warrants in North Carolina, New Jersey, New York and Washington in a crackdown on movie piracy that involved seizing several websites that were offering downloads of pirated movies just hours after they appeared in theaters. The nine websites that were seized include TVShack.net, PlanetMoviez.com, ThePirateCity.org and Movies-Links.TV