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SteveHardeman · 06-30-2010, 04:16 PM

Nothing earth-shattering but a good story for those of us who don't steal other people's work.

http://www.ajc.com/business/feds-dis...ed-561083.html

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Feds disable websites accused of movie piracy

By RYAN NAKASHIMA

The Associated Press

BURBANK, Calif. ? U.S. officials on Wednesday announced a major crackdown on movie piracy that involved disabling nine websites they accuse of offering pirated movies, in some cases hours after they appeared in theaters.

John Morton, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), speaks at a news conference to announce a new initiative to fight Internet piracy, including illegal movie downloads, on a sound stage at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, Calif., Wednesday, June 30, 2010.

Studio, labor and business officials join Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at a news conference to announce a new initiative to fight Internet piracy, including illegal movie downloads, on a sound stage at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, Calif., Wednesday, June 30, 2010.

John Morton, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), at podium, is seen behind a computer display showing what a person might find at an illegal Internet distribution site that has been blocked, at a news conference to announce a new initiative to fight Internet piracy, including illegal movie downloads, on a sound stage at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, Calif., Wednesday, June 30, 2010.

Officials also seized assets from 15 bank, investment and advertising accounts, and executed residential search warrants in North Carolina, New Jersey, New York and Washington.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials worked with the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and other government agencies. The investigation involved about 100 agents in 11 states and the Netherlands.

Officials wouldn't say how many people were suspected of intellectual property theft, but said the penalties could include prison time.

The raids were the first actions in a new "Operation In Our Sites" initiative to combat Internet counterfeiting and piracy.

The government only seized domain names for the sites in question, however, meaning the computers that run the sites could still be used under a different name.

Acknowledging the slippery nature of online piracy, John Morton, the assistant secretary of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said government agents would have to be persistent in chasing site operators.

"If a site reappears, so will we. If the criminals move overseas, we will follow," he said at a press conference on the studio lot of The Walt Disney Co. "Take it from me, I don't think that we've stopped Internet piracy in a day, but this is going to be a sustained effort."

The domain names seized were: TVShack.net, PlanetMoviez.com, ThePirateCity.org, Movies-Links.TV, FilesPump.com, Now-Movies.com, ZML.com, NinjaVideo.net and NinjaThis.net. All the sites' domain names were registered in the U.S., although one was physically based in the Netherlands.

The sites had about 6.7 million visitors combined every month, and at least one had about a 10-fold increase in traffic from a year ago. Authorities say they made money from advertising or donations.

Officials said the sites would be disabled. As of Wednesday afternoon, several of the sites checked by The Associated Press were still functioning ? for example, a copy of Disney's "Toy Story 3," which is in theaters now, could be viewed online at TVShack.net. The ICE said it would take about a day before all the sites would show a banner saying the domain name had been seized.

Morton said there were hundreds of similar websites infringing on copyrights.

The conference was also attended by executives from Disney, Viacom Inc.'s Paramount Pictures, the Directors Guild of America, Motion Picture Association of America and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, which covers behind-the-scenes workers in the movie industry.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement that money lost because of copyright infringement translates into lost jobs. The MPAA said film and television production supports 2.4 million American jobs and contributes $80 billion a year to the economy.

"That's why we took the actions that we did," Bharara said in a statement. "If your business model is movie piracy, your story will not have a happy ending."

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June 30, 2010 06:51 PM EDT

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JD · 06-30-2010, 04:18 PM

oh shizzy...

Loch · 06-30-2010, 04:33 PM

they are dumb as shit!!!
TVShack.net is still fully running and they just threw the biggest ADD out there possible LMAO

Redrob · 06-30-2010, 04:37 PM

Hey, Nate.......email the Feds your list and really blow their minds.

halfpint · 06-30-2010, 04:43 PM

I should imagine most of my purchased content on my tube is all over the net by now because I have seen it posted on a certian forum and it went like this "someone needs to rip the movies because of the advertising" and yep it was aimed at my site.

SteveHardeman · 06-30-2010, 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Loch

they are dumb as shit!!!
TVShack.net is still fully running and they just threw the biggest ADD out there possible LMAO

LMAO may be a bit strong don't you think? Perhaps a snicker. Perhaps even a light chuckle. But a full LMAO? I don't think so.

A journey of a thousand miles...............

2MuchMark · 06-30-2010, 04:48 PM

Good for the movie industry. I hope pirate sites get taken down left and right and the site owners get thrown in jail.

punkpred · 06-30-2010, 04:50 PM

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Originally Posted by **********

Good for the movie industry. I hope pirate sites get taken down left and right and the site owners get thrown in jail.

Thats a lot of people to throw in jail, but it would be great to see that happen.

2MuchMark · 06-30-2010, 04:59 PM

Actually, it's no wonder they are getting away with theft.

If you go to this website

http://www.fightfilmtheft.org

they seem to only care about people who steal movies by recording them with camcorders in the theatre. Who the hell does that anymore? Most movies online are stolen by insiders which is why many of them are secretly tagged now. Anyway, if you call fightfilmtheft.org they just tell you to call the Police. I'm really sure the Police give 2 cents about some dork with a camcorder...

Oh well.

Best-In-BC · 06-30-2010, 06:12 PM

You guys are making the retarded assumption that there mainly based in the states

Best-In-BC · 06-30-2010, 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by **********

Actually, it's no wonder they are getting away with theft.

If you go to this website

http://www.fightfilmtheft.org

they seem to only care about people who steal movies by recording them with camcorders in the theatre. Who the hell does that anymore? Most movies online are stolen by insiders which is why many of them are secretly tagged now. Anyway, if you call fightfilmtheft.org they just tell you to call the Police. I'm really sure the Police give 2 cents about some dork with a camcorder...

Oh well.

Thats not true, there are tons of cam copies out 90% of the time befor a good copy is

arock10 · 06-30-2010, 07:53 PM

shame adult never did anything

EliteWebmaster · 06-30-2010, 09:54 PM

I personally don't care if Hollywood movie studios lost every single cent of movie sale to piracy. They are just greedy. Same goes with the music industry. I have no love for both those industries.

But I do care about the adult industry, if there was an industry that works hard for their money and deserve it to be free of piracy, it's the adult movie industry.

papill0n · 06-30-2010, 10:42 PM

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Originally Posted by EliteWebmaster

I personally don't care if Hollywood movie studios lost every single cent of movie sale to piracy. They are just greedy. Same goes with the music industry. I have no love for both those industries.

But I do care about the adult industry, if there was an industry that works hard for their money and deserve it to be free of piracy, it's the adult movie industry.

jesus fuck me christ did I just read that

Naechy · 07-01-2010, 01:30 AM

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Originally Posted by arock10

shame adult never did anything

never

seeandsee · 07-01-2010, 01:47 AM

nine gone, millions to go, it will be long battle

ottopottomouse · 07-01-2010, 04:07 AM

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Originally Posted by EliteWebmaster

I personally don't care if Hollywood movie studios lost every single cent of movie sale to piracy. They are just greedy. Same goes with the music industry. I have no love for both those industries.

But I do care about the adult industry, if there was an industry that works hard for their money and deserve it to be free of piracy, it's the adult movie industry.

So nobody in any other industry actually works for a living they just expect to be paid for fuck-all?

ottopottomouse · 07-01-2010, 04:10 AM

All this does is give a recipe for how to run a pirate movie site without getting in trouble.

Register a domain outside of the US with an extension of a country that doesn't give a shit.

Host the site outside of the US in a country that doesn't give a shit.

bbobby86 · 07-01-2010, 04:20 AM

very very long...

Paul Markham · 07-01-2010, 05:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Loch

they are dumb as shit!!!
TVShack.net is still fully running and they just threw the biggest ADD out there possible LMAO

Casper you seem happy that the pirate sites are still up. They are trying to do something at last.

Quote:

Originally Posted by EliteWebmaster

I personally don't care if Hollywood movie studios lost every single cent of movie sale to piracy. They are just greedy. Same goes with the music industry. I have no love for both those industries.

But I do care about the adult industry, if there was an industry that works hard for their money and deserve it to be free of piracy, it's the adult movie industry.

Can't believe I read this.

Paul Markham · 07-01-2010, 05:27 AM

The best way to fight online piracy is to block or remove their domains. Make it so the site owner and his advertisers unsure if the site will be online next week.

Spotting people pirating mainstream movies, music, programs, etc will be easy. For porn is will be a lot harder because of all the free stuff we have thrown our there. And it will make little difference IMO. Some sponsors will still give away way too much in their efforts to get a sign up.

Jarmusch · 07-01-2010, 05:30 AM

i had never heard of any of those nine sites..

mikesinner · 07-01-2010, 05:31 AM

Not to long before porn pirates will be getting busted and becoming butt pirates.

Raf1 · 07-01-2010, 06:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Paul Markham

. Some sponsors will still give away way too much in their efforts to get a sign up.

This is true for many industries. One guy lowers his price, then the next one and so on. Until the whole industry is earning pennies.

CurrentlySober · 07-01-2010, 07:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Loch

they are dumb as shit!!!
TVShack.net is still fully running and they just threw the biggest ADD out there possible LMAO

From TVShack.net

gideongallery · 07-01-2010, 09:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EliteWebmaster

I personally don't care if Hollywood movie studios lost every single cent of movie sale to piracy. They are just greedy. Same goes with the music industry. I have no love for both those industries.

But I do care about the adult industry, if there was an industry that works hard for their money and deserve it to be free of piracy, it's the adult movie industry.

DaddyHalbucks · 07-01-2010, 10:31 PM

It's about time.

Loch · 07-01-2010, 10:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Paul Markham

Casper you seem happy that the pirate sites are still up. They are trying to do something at last.

Can't believe I read this.

Happy no, but thanks for the concern and Irony Paul
But it would be like you saying that you took down pornhub spent millions doing it and giving them 10 times the market share as you forgot to turn off the server.

If you dont find that ironic and funny something is wrong

Loch · 07-01-2010, 10:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul Markham

The best way to fight online piracy is to block or remove their domains. Make it so the site owner and his advertisers unsure if the site will be online next week.

Spotting people pirating mainstream movies, music, programs, etc will be easy. For porn is will be a lot harder because of all the free stuff we have thrown our there. And it will make little difference IMO. Some sponsors will still give away way too much in their efforts to get a sign up.

Which is why their statement is so fucking ironic LOL
Cant believe you dont see that

Loch · 07-01-2010, 10:39 PM

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Originally Posted by CurrentlySober

From TVShack.net

Happened a good 2 days after their announcement

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