US DOJ Drops Charges Against Two Seized Websites

angry tapir writes "The U.S. Department of Justice has dropped its case against two Spanish websites that stream sports events nearly 17 months after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement seized the sites and shut them down for alleged copyright violations. In a one-page brief to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Wednesday, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of the district said his office had dropped the case against Rojadirecta.com and Rojadirecta.org. ICE seized the two sites on Jan. 31, 2011, and the DOJ asked the court to order that Puerto 80 Projects, the owner of the sites, forfeit the sites to the U.S. government."

Re:No even a "we're sorry?"

[Anonymous Coward]

Better sue them for thousands of dollars for each potential lost customer! I estimate that they owe over 100 trillion dollars.

100 trillion dollars isn't exactly a lot of money these days, dr. evil.

Re:Seizure without cause

[whoever57]

Winning court cases is hard. So, the solution has been to turn the process of justice into its own form of punishment.

Wasn't this one of the grievencies of the original colonists in America? Arrest someone and take them to England for prosecution, in the process, keeping them under arrest for months/years.