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Owner of Domains Seized In December By ICE Sentenced To 40 Months In Prision

October 19, 2012 by Michael Berkens Leave a Comment

Back in December 2011, we reported that the Homeland Security ICE department seized 11 domain names for selling pirated movies, TV shows and games.

Yesterday the owner of two of the 11 seized domains, 36-year old Sang Jin Kim was sentenced by a federal judge to to 40 months in prison and was ordered him to forfeit more than $400,000 in assets.

The two domains were 007disk.com and 82movie.com

According to a press release by ICE:

“”Prosecutors charged Kim with criminal copyright infringement in November of 2011 and seized the domains 82movie.com and 007disk.com. Prosecutors claimed that Kim ran an online piracy empire through his Washington-based company World Multimedia Group Inc. The sites offered pirated versions of popular movies, Korean TV shows, software and video games, according to prosecutors.”

“After an undisclosed source in South Korea alerted U.S. Immigration and Customs officials (ICE) of Kim’s activities, they set up a meeting with him. ”

“Undercover ICE agents met with Kim in September 2010 to discuss selling the website and server for 007disk.com. ”

“Kim told undercover ICE agents that he knew what he was doing was illegal and would often receive takedown notices from copyright holders. He would remove the items in question, wait and put them back up…”

“Ultimately Kim pled guilty to the charges. He was sentenced last Friday.”

Filed Under: ICE, Legal

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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