Comments on: Arabian Anti-Piracy Alliance Pwned by Hackers

By: Rudolph Babay!!

Rudolph Babay!! — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:53:59 +0000

That shit aint wrong in a foreign country…. obviously not even to certain government who own the bases that have several shops that sell pirated stuff.

And u know that u need to get off your morality horse. Commercial piracy is just as vice as individual piracy.

By: James

James — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 04:18:52 +0000

Thanks for information ;) __________________________ http://www.jugargame.com

By: Meocross

Meocross — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:53:59 +0000

For great justice Anonixians excellent job

By: ajz

ajz — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:46:23 +0000

You can't shut the real napster!

By: Queijo Azul » Blog Archive » Aliança Árabe Anti pirataria foi sacaneada por Hackers

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:53:13 +0000

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By: roflcakes

roflcakes — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:18:36 +0000

they dont bother to say how many.. could be.. 2.. lol

By: what?

what? — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:17:59 +0000

Your buying pirated games? Please tell me you mean that you are buying games after you pirate them..

If you are buying pirated games that means you support Commercial Piracy and therefor pretty much everyone here hates you.

Commercial piracy is wrong, fuck you.

By: stupid noob

stupid noob — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:15:56 +0000

The hell are you talking about.. Security weak software.. oh what did the sysop forget to update his anti-virus? He didnt buy the latest Norton? I bet you think theres magical 'security' programs that protect you!

Idioth.

YES IT IS CALLED SECURING YOUR WEB SERVER. Learn about what your talking about before commenting.

By: roflcopter 3000

roflcopter 3000 — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:05:08 +0000

Lol they should post a youtube video with rick astley on there

telling them they got rickrolled

By: roflcopter 3000

roflcopter 3000 — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:02:03 +0000

Oh they wiilll

By: Chris-Wallace.com - Web Designer and Developer

Chris-Wallace.com - Web Designer and Developer — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:24:13 +0000

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By: DemocrazyPlz

DemocrazyPlz — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:15:00 +0000

So there's about 1200 persons thrown into jail each year in United Arab Emirates for sharing culture digitally? Totalitarian states are scary :-(

By: EZEE

EZEE — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:14:40 +0000

Hey!

Good article TF, one small typo:
"In 2007 the the company even…."
Two "the"s in the above.

"Butler proudly added that, contrary to the situation in the U.S, everyone they catch violating copyrights in the United Arab Emirates goes to jail. “Amazingly, every single copyright case within United Arab Emirates resulted in imprisonment,” he said."

What he conveniently fails to mention is the people they catch "violating copyrights" are mostly the ones selling pirated content on the streets, he also does not mention that the never catch the "top dogs"… just the "small fry".

Most of the people caught are from countries like India, Bangladesh, China, Indonesia etc… these poor souls go to the UAE to make some money to send folks back home, find it hard to make ends meet and sell DVDs for the bigger boys on the streets…

Like drugs, the peddlers get caught but the "distributers" and suppliers simply get new people to do the same thing.

Cheers!
http://www.eZee.se

By: Sinbad

Sinbad — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:50:24 +0000

We should be kind of worried really, it's things like this that give the anti-piracy companies reason to chase us even more. Just makes them more determined, really.

Cool story though.

By: Rudolph Babay!!

Rudolph Babay!! — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:10:28 +0000

Tell you the truth…i have a bunch of pirated movies and recently just started buying pirated games.. I think this organization isnt even that strong…. everything here at least in my area (Iraq and Kuwait) are definitely sold openly even though its not the legit retail version. So I'm thinking this particular organizaton is simply a face in the region and not taken serious. As 3rd world countries all over the world do not benefit at all from protecting Western empowered intellectual property. I personally dont care though. The third worlders charge much more reasonable prices than the if i were back in the states. $20 bucks for 4 Seasons of Martin or any TV show for that matter. 2 bucks for movies. I mean that 2 bucks thing really works for new releases I get to preview the movie and basically decide if I want to see it in full glory at the theater or buy the DVD. (of course alot of times the 2 dollar DVD is actual DVD quality already….so on those cases…..yea)

By: o_O

o_O — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:13:31 +0000

I doubt they would ever be satisfied. In the U.A.E. he's probably lobbying for everyone who's alleged of infringing on their copyrights to be immediately stoned to death.

By: mansoor

mansoor — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:42:16 +0000

the hackers are know as ashiyane group. Theyre a hacker group based in Iran and take great interest in hacking arabic websites.

By:

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:25:17 +0000

Thanks for plagairizing me, Nubcakes. It's flattering. But you got some of the details wrong.

It isn't "small-time commercial pirates provide a service to people too poor to afford internet and/or computers in their homes", because that misses the actual point.

It's "small-time commercial pirates provide a service to people too poor to afford the ludicrous prices demanded by the MAFIAA which oftentimes equates to sacrificing half of ones monthly paycheck just to buy a single fucking DVD".

Nobody really argued then, either. Infact, nobody's really arguing it now. So you can drop the whole "people here insisted I was wrong" part.

Nice try attempting to paint the people here as beind closeminded zealots, though. But next time you should do your homework a little better.

By: xentar

xentar — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:05:27 +0000

You know, commercial piracy used to be the only source (apart from importing from abroad) of software and games for me until early 2007 when affordable unlimited internet plans appeared at my location. So, being dependent on it for years, I wouldn't be bashing it too much whether it is wrong or not, especially when it's presented as a service rather than selling of products. And, of course, the best way to fight it is to improve the availability of internet until commercial pirates are no longer necessary.

By: John Bean

John Bean — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:04:15 +0000

LOL, you have to admit that is quite funny!

JT
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