HTMLcomics.com is in some legal hot water.  The FBI served a warrant on the site and shut down it’s servers.  Alleging copyright infringement, the site was shut down and servers confiscated.  The law firm Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP issued a press release about it and gives some details about the investigation.

The shut down came after a coordinated investigation by the FBI, U.S. Department of Justice, a consortium of comic publishers and their legal counsel, a team of Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP attorneys specializing in the areas of intellectual property, publishing and comics, as well as local counsel in Miami.

HTMLcomics.com was to believed to be the largest pirate site for comic books, with 1.6 million visits per day and 6,630,021 pages of comic books offered.

The full press release is below.

Read more