ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – The FBI’s Atlanta field office says it’s seized several websites for pirated video games.
FBI Atlanta has also “dismantled the infrastructure” of the “online criminal marketplaces,” the field office said in a press release Thursday.
“For more than four years, the websites contained pirated copies of highly anticipated video games days or weeks before their official release date,” FBI Atlanta said.
From Feb. 28 to May 28 alone, records indicate there were 3.2 million downloads from the sites, “from the most used download service,” resulting in an estimated loss of $170 million, according to the agency.
The FBI said the seized sites include: nsw2u.com, nswdl.com, game-2u.com, bigngame.com, ps4pkg.com, ps4pkg.net and mgnetu.com.
Anyone visiting the “major video game piracy websites” will now see the following notice saying the domain has been seized by federal authorities:
In the release, the FBI thanked the Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD), an agency that investigates financial crimes, for their help in the investigation.
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