On
August 21, the FBI announced that it had seized Applanet.net, SnappzMarket.net,
and AppBucket.net with the cooperation of domestic and foreign governments, for
offering illegally pirated android applications in violation of copyright laws.
Between
the three sites, they hosted more than 50,000 cracked applications and games,
and had collectively over 120,000 followers
on Facebook and Twitter.
Prior
to the execution of warrants and the seizure of the domain names, FBI agents
downloaded thousands of "popular copyrighted mobile device apps" from
the alternative online markets.
Apparently
these applications were stored on web servers outside the U.S., which required
the cooperation of Dutch and French law enforcement agencies.
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