In 2014 Europol, the European law enforcement agency, in collaboration with agencies from 18 EU member states, INTERPOL, the US National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center and Eurojust initiated a global operation against piracy websites dubbed ‘Operation In Our Sites X‘ (IOSX).
It is a joint investigative effort to put an end to the distribution of pirated and counterfeited content. Today, Europol announced that over 30,000 (30,506 to be precise) domain names have been taken down for selling pirated services/products including “counterfeit pharmaceuticals and pirated movies, illegal television streaming, music, software, electronics, and other bogus products.”
Europol officials also announced that three suspects have been arrested on charges of copyright infringement and “26 000 luxury products (clothes, perfumes), 363 liters of alcoholic beverages, and many hardware devices” and over €150 000 stored in different banks and online payment platforms have been seized.
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Infographic: Europol
In total law enforcement agencies from 30 countries including Albania, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Colombia, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Hong Kong, China, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden Switzerland, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States t ..
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