Hollywood Anti-Piracy Group Takes “Pirate” Domains To Avoid Prosecuting
Found on TorrentFreak on Thursday, 13 December 2012

With United States authorities leading the way, domain seizure has become quite the hot topic in recent months.
“The domains were all signed over voluntarily following contact from FACT as one strand of our ongoing strategy which gives alternatives to prosecution in certain cases,” a FACT spokesperson told TorrentFreak.
Sounds very much like extortion, which I doubt is a legal move.