<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/27/technology/27torrent.html?_r=1">U.S. Shuts Down Web Sites in Piracy Crackdown - NYTimes.com</a>.

In what appears to be the latest phase of a far-reaching federal  crackdown on online piracy of music and movies,  the Web addresses of a  number of sites that facilitate illegal file-sharing were seized this  week by <a class="meta-org" title="More articles about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/i/immigration_and_customs_enforcement_us/index.html?inline=nyt-org">Immigration and Customs Enforcement</a>, a division of the <a class="meta-org" title="More articles about the Homeland Security Department." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/h/homeland_security_department/index.html?inline=nyt-org">Department of Homeland Security</a>.