This anti-piracy outfit recognise a money spinner, the professional content creator just inherited another parasite.

File sharing is a reality you cant put the genie back in the bottle, I suppose the anti-piracy outfitt is just damage limitation know.

beeatches

from story:
From the looks of it, the sites were all hosted at amenworld.com.
With a name like that of course the site will bend over faster than a Catholic altar boy

YA NEVER DO THIS TO GET RICH
if ya make a few bucks so what its not your fault people are generous however if your doing things to intentionally make cash like selling invites and selling GB and selling this and selling that , either dont ask for donations or goto prison ya just should not make a living off it.

I bet most of those sites will come back bigger and better. Yaay anti-piracy!

Roze

Bandwidth costs money, you fool. Most Torrent sites literally couldn’t afford to exist if it weren’t for adclicks and/or donations. And so what if they turn a profit, anyway?

An MPAA sockpuppet: “without copyright, without the big movie studios, movies like the dark knight or iron man or any other big budget blockbuster would not be made.”

Bullshit.

Filesharing didn’t stop Iron man from making a killing at the box office, and it didn’t stop The Dark Knight from raking in one billion dollars worldwide, either. Ergo, we would still have big budget blockbusters if copyright didn’t exist.

And since we’d still have big budget blockbusters, blockbusters being the key word here(are you following me so far, Shortbus?), we’d also still have big movie studios.

Try again.

im glad that they busted those criminal scum!

i hope they are going to prison

An interesting point, but what prison times? What heavy fines? Using my own country as an example, Australia, enforcement agencies have demonstrated an almost pathological reluctance to prosecute so-called offenders.

Sure the laws exist, but if they’re never enforced, how effective are they? And more importantly, why won’t agencies carry out any arrests? Simply, they don’t want to. These laws are being breeched by everyday citizens with no other criminal inclination. Lots of everyday citizens. Millions and millions of them.

I was down the pub the other night and happened to run into a couple of Attorney General’s copyright lawyers. After a few beers and a robust discussion on piracy I asked them casually how often they used bit-torrent. One looked at me blankly and had no idea what I was talking about. The other piped up his download collection was huge before realising what he was saying, at which point he wisely clammed up.

If those responsible for enforcing the laws simply refuse to do it and those responsible for drafting the laws are themselves either completely ignorant or participating in illegal file transfers, then it’s fairly obvious where this will all end and it’s not with arrests and fines.