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An anarchist-oriented Mastodon server has seen one of its admins raided by the FBI. The admin in question was working with an unencrypted backup of the Mastodon server, which was also seized.

Paul Hill · Jul 1, 2023 · Hot! with 51 comments

Popular torrenting website KickassTorrents was recently seized, as part of an order by the US Department of Justice. Its alleged owner, Artem Vaulin, was also arrested in his hometown in Poland.

Justin Luna · Jul 21, 2016 · Hot! with 54 comments

An operation conducted by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations has seized 132 websites selling counterfeit goods and more than $175,000 from PayPal accounts.

Andrew Stevenson · Nov 27, 2012 · Hot! with 12 comments

Acting on a Florida lawyer's suggestion that violent video games may have figured in Tuesday's slaying of a West Feliciana Parish man, sheriff's deputies searched the home of one teenage suspect again on Thursday. West...

giga · Jun 5, 2006 · Hot! with -1 comments

Investigators seized 200 computers across the globe to break up online piracy networks that distribute copyrighted music, movies and software, the Justice Department said Thursday. The sweep, carried out in 27 U.S....

· Apr 22, 2004 with -1 comments

Tens of thousands investigated using snooping software Italian Police have swooped on a major counterfeiting ring based in Italy and have nabbed €118 million ($139.8 million) worth of fake software, the Business...

Tom Warren · Jun 16, 2003 with -1 comments

Thanks Darren Bolton for this sending this in. Counterfeit Compaq Computer Corp. parts were seized in New Hampshire after the company was contacted by a customer who received suspect memory boards from an...

· Feb 15, 2002 with -1 comments