According to a report in The New York Times, last week, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) closed a series of sites that facilitate illegal file-sharing. The sites include onsmash.com, rapgodfathers.com, torrent-finder.com, and dajaz1.com now when you go to those sites all you now see is the picture above.
The closures occurred as part of a new bill related to filsharing called the Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act is going through Congress. For more information you can read the New York Times story here.