Dept. of Justice shutters Sharebeast, the largest US-based filesharing service
Found on Ars Technica on Monday, 14 September 2015
On Friday, the Department of Justice and the RIAA claimed another victory in the never-ending battle against file-sharing when the government agency seized the domain of Sharebeast.com.
Sharebeast included pirate content beyond music as well. A studio-commissioned report from 2014 showed Sharebeast was one of the Top 250 sites for pirated music and TV files in the UK for instance. And when FIFA and its partners pushed hard to eliminate illicit streams of the 2014 World Cup, Sharebeast was one of the sites the football (soccer) organization asked to be blocked.
That's why the control of domains has to be removed from the US and migrated into an independent institution. You should be able to defend yourself in court before your company is shut down.