After the U.S. Government took action against several sites connected to movie streaming recently, nerves arejangling over the possibility that this is just the beginning of a widercrackdown. Now it appears that a free blogging platform has been takendown by its hosting provider on orders from the U.S. authorities ongrounds of “a history of abuse”. More than 73,000 blogs are out ofaction as a result..
Hot on the heels of recent threats from Vice President Joe Biden and Intellectual Property Enforcement CoordinatorVictoria Espinel directed at sites offering unauthorized movies andmusic, last month U.S. authorities targeted several sites they claimedwere connected to the streaming of infringing video material.
‘Operation In Our Sites‘ targeted several sites including TVShack.net,Movies-Links.TV, FilesPump.com, Now-Movies.com, PlanetMoviez.com,ThePirateCity.org, ZML.com, NinjaVideo.net and NinjaThis.net. In almostunprecedented action, the domain names of 7 sites were seized andindications are that others – The Pirate Bay and MegaUpload – narrowlyavoided the samefate.
Fears remain, however, that this action is only the beginning, and that more sites will be targeted as the months roll on. Indeed,TorrentFreak has already received information that other sites, so farunnamed in the media, are being monitored by the authorities oncopyright grounds.
Now, according to the owner of a free WordPress platform which hosts more than 73,000blogs, his network of sites has been completely shut down on theorders of the authorities.
Blogetery.com has been with host BurstNet for 7 months but on Friday July 9th the site disappeared. The following Monday the owner receivedan email from BurstNet:
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