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24. Website’s Profit Factor Into ICE Calculus of Which Domains to Seize, Electronic Comm. & L. Rep.
(BNA) (June 8, 2011) (interview between BNA’s Tamlin Bason and Erik Barnett, assistant deputy director of
ICE).
25. See Jennifer Martinez, “US government dismisses piracy case against Rojadirecta site,” Hillicon Valley
(Aug. 29, 2012) (available at http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/246529-us-governmentdismisses-case-against-rojadirecta)
(Sherwin, Siy, VP of Legal Affairs at Public Knowledge complained, “it is
far too easy for the government to seize domain names and hold them for an extended period even when it is
unable to make a sustainable case of infringement.”).
26. Mike Masnik, “Tell The White House To Stop Illegally Seizing & Shutting Down Websites,” TechDirt
(June 11, 2012) (available at http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120609/00050419257/tell-white-house-to-stopillegally-seizing-shutting-down-websites.shtml).
27. Ryan Singel, “Oops! Copyright Cops Return Seized RojaDirecta Domain Names—19 Months Later,”
Wired.com (Aug. 29, 2012) (available at http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/08/domain-names-returned/).
28. Two domain names out of 2061 domain names seized equals 0.097%.
29. Such concerns have also been raised with respect to seizure of domain names for non-copyright
purposes. The most prominent example involves another joint operation of ICE and DOJ called “Operation
Protect Our Children”, which targeted Internet sites promoting child pornography. Unfortunately for clients of
the free-hosting Web domain mooo.com, they were inadvertently caught in the Web dragnet when 84,000 of
mooo.com’s subdomains were seized. See, e.g., Matt Liebowitz & Paul Wagenseil, “Oops! Child-Porn Seizure
Shuts Down 84,000 Innocent Sites,” NBC News (Mar. 30, 2011) (available at http://www.nbcnews.com/id/
41649634/ns/technology_and_science-security/t/oops-child-porn-seizure-shuts-down-innocent-sites/
#.UUc44tE4VY4). What is less often reported is that all of the “innocent” subdomains not involved in child
pornography were returned to their operators within just three days (id.), suggesting that the inadvertent mistake
was unlikely to have resulted in major harm.
30. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, “National IPR Coordination Center: Outreach and Training Fact
Sheet” (undated) (available at http://www.ice.gov/doclib/news/library/factsheets/pdf/outreach-training.pdf).
31. Id.
32. Id.
33. Ian Paul, “Mozilla Refuses to Help Censor the Internet,” PC World (May 6, 2011) (available at http://
www.pcworld.com/article/227308/mozilla_refuses_to_help_censor_the_internet.html).
34. U.S. International Trade Commission, “FY 2011 AT A GLANCE: General Information” (2012)
(available at http://www.usitc.gov/press_room/documents/general_transition.pdf).
35. U.S. International Trade Commission, “Facts and Trends Regarding USITC Section 337 Investigations”
(2013) (available at http://www.usitc.gov/press_room/documents/featured_news/337facts.pdf).
36. “U.S. Government Agencies,” StopFakes.gov (available at http://www.stopfakes.gov/us-gov-agencies/
us-international-trade-commission).
37. Id.
38. U.S. International Trade Commission, “FY 2011 AT A GLANCE: Operation 2: Intellectual Property
Import Investigations” (2012) (available at http://www.usitc.gov/press_room/documents/op2_transition.pdf).
39. U.S. International Trade Commission, “Mission Statement” (available at http://www.usitc.gov/
press_room/mission_statement.htm).
40. U.S. International Trade Commission, “FY 2011 AT A GLANCE: General Information” (available at
http://www.usitc.gov/press_room/documents/general_transition.pdf).
41. Id.
42. “International Trade Commission Investigations,” StopFakes.gov (available at http://
www.stopfakes.gov/business-tools/international-trade-commission-investigations).
43. Maria Cantwell et al., “Fighting Unauthorized Trade of Digital Goods While Protecting Internet
Security, Commerce and Speech” (undated) (available at http://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Draft-
Discussion-Fighting-the-Unauthorized-Trade-of-Digital-Goods.pdf).
44. USITC Study, “Digital Trade Will Be Focus Of Two New USITC Investigations,” News Release 13-
004 (Jan. 9, 2013) (available at http://www.usitc.gov/press_room/news_release/2013/er0109ll1.htm).
45. Id.
46. Certain Hardware Logic Emulation Systems and Components Thereof, Inv. No. 337-TA-383, USITC
Pub. 3089, at 29, (March 1998) (available at http://www.usitc.gov/publications/337/pub3089.pdf).
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