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By Friday morning, visiting the addresses of a handful of sites that either hosted unauthorized copies of films and music or allowed users to search for them elsewhere on the Internet produced a notice that said, in part: \u201cThis domain name has been seized by ICE \u2014 Homeland Security Investigations, pursuant to a seizure warrant issued by a United States District Court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In taking over the sites\u2019 domain names, or Web addresses, the government effectively redirected any visitors to its <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20111012224435\/http:\/\/torrent-finder.com\/\">own takedown notice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cICE office of Homeland Security Investigations executed court-ordered seizure warrants against a number of domain names,\u201d said Cori W. 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