Operation D-Elite

Operation D-Elite was an operation by agents of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency against leading members of EliteTorrents, a BitTorrent tracker site, resulting in five months of prison, five months of home arrest, and a $3,000 fine against Grant T. Stanley on October 17, 2006.

[2] EliteTorrents was singled out among the large number of Bittorrent sites because EliteTorrents released a Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith workprint approximately six hours prior to the movie's theatrical release.

The MPAA began collecting information and pressuring the Federal Bureau of Investigation to take some form of action.

In addition to the Star Wars workprint, the owner of the EliteTorrents domain name lived in the United States, which made the site an easier target for U.S. authorities.

However, in the early hours of May 25, the United States Department of Justice and FBI announced that they had taken down the website.