{"id":1704,"date":"2010-07-01T14:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T22:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalstudios.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/1969\/12\/31\/feds-shut-down-nine-websites-in-movie-piracy-crackdown\/"},"modified":"2019-05-13T12:59:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T20:59:06","slug":"feds-shut-down-nine-websites-in-movie-piracy-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/2010\/07\/01\/feds-shut-down-nine-websites-in-movie-piracy-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds shut down nine websites in movie piracy crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/images\/logoSmall.png \/><\/p>\n<p>The sites had made pirated versions of &#8216;Toy Story 3&#8217; and &#8216;Iron Man 2&#8217; available within hours of their release in theaters. The crackdown is part of a renewed effort to curb film and TV piracy online.<\/p>\n<p>Adding some swashbuckling to its tough talk on fighting piracy, the federal government on Wednesday seized several websites that had offered downloads of pirated movies such as &#8220;Toy Story 3&#8221; and &#8220;Iron Man 2&#8221; within hours of their release in theaters.<\/p>\n<p>Federal authorities announced that they had seized domain names from nine websites engaged in the &#8220;criminal theft of American movies and television.&#8221; The websites include TVShack.net, PlanetMoviez.com, ThePirateCity.org and Ninjavideo.net. Combined, the sites drew 6.7 million visitors a month, authorities said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-ct-piracy-20100701,0,2871905.story target=_blank rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-ct-piracy-20100701,0,2871905.story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sites had made pirated versions of &#8216;Toy Story 3&#8217; and &#8216;Iron Man 2&#8217; available within hours of their release in theaters. The crackdown is part of a renewed effort to curb film and TV piracy online. Adding some swashbuckling to its tough talk on fighting piracy, the federal government on Wednesday seized several websites &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/2010\/07\/01\/feds-shut-down-nine-websites-in-movie-piracy-crackdown\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Feds shut down nine websites in movie piracy crackdown&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2170,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions\/2170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}