The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) has been closely knit with cyberspace law enforcement for many years, most specifically because of its mission to protect the illegal exploitation of children.In the kinetic world, ICE is tasked with halting human trafficking and smuggling in the United States, among many other duties.u00a0 In cyberspace, the exploitation of children has found a new medium to propagate, and ICE spearheads the effort to rid the net of child pornography.u00a0 Because its law enforcement team performs operations, intelligence gathering, and investigations in cyberspace, it makes sense for fraud, counterfeiting and other crimes to fall under their jurisdiction as well.Included in this mission is protecting intellectual property from being compromised via cyberspace.u00a0 When you see a web site which has been marked as under investigation for copyright infringement, it is because ICE or its partners in law enforcement (i.e. the FBI) have asked or forced the host to remove the site from the Internet.The DHS guidelines on copyright enforcement are nothing special-- they simply enforce U.S. law on intellectual property.