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In Our Sites 2

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    John Morton (Director of ICE): Today is Cyber Monday, one of the busiest Internet shopping days of the year.
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    According to the National Retail Federation, nearly 100 million people shopped on this day last year, and we expect similar numbers this year.
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    Most of this commerce is legitimate: real goods, real vendors, real presents for the Xmas tree.
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    Parts of this commerce are also a fraud: fake goods, fake vendors, shoddy presents unlikely to bring any holiday cheer.
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    Counterfeiters are prowling in the back alleys of the internet, masquerading, duping and stealing.
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    They are masquerading as legitimate retailers, duping shoppers, and stealing from real businesses and their workers.
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    William Ross (ICE)These web sites were just seized by the US government.
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    Why? they were selling counterfeit and pirated versions of trusted-branded products.
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    Shutting down these sites is the job of the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center,
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    and HSI, Homeland Security Investigations, a unit within ICE
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    This operation, called Operation in Our Sites II,
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    was conducted during the lead-up to Cyber Monday,
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    the busiest online shopping day of the year.
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    HSI agents seized dozens of websites selling counterfeit products,
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    passing them off as the real thing, and making profits.
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    It is our duty to protect the US consumer,
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    the companies who have built their reputations on these brand names,
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    and the integrity of the Internet.
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    For you, the consumer, keep these tips in mind when buying things online:
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    Buy from sites that respect the rights
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    and if the price is too good to be true, it's not the real deal.
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    John Morton: Have we rid the Internet of these websites? No. There are others, there will be more.
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    Will many of these websites reappear under different domain names? Yes, they will.
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    But I can tell you this: we are not going away. If we can seize websites, we will.
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    If we can find the operators, we will. If we can arrest and prosecute counterfeiters
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    and copyright violators, we will.
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    This is a long fight. But we at ICE and DoJ are committed to it, period.
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    Make no mistake about it. We are in the throes of a heated and pitched battle.
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    This isn't a game, it's not a sideshow. American business, American labor,
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    American innovation are under assault.
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    We either wage this fight, here and now,
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    or we give in to the steady loss of American ingenuity and know-how.
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    William Ross: Remember, the people who steal intellectual property
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    are not just taking other people's ideas.
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    They're taking American jobs, hurting the American economy,
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    and potentially threatening your safety.
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    And if you see this banner while shopping online,
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    you'll know that the IPR center is looking out for your best interests.
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    Happy holiday shopping.
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    (onscreen: logos of several institutions, with HSI and IPR logos in the middle)
Title:
In Our Sites 2
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03:05
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