BitTorrent Site Pwns Anti-Piracy Outfit
Written by Ernesto on December 06, 2008Anti-piracy organizations are known for their excellent lobbying skills. However, knowledge of the Internet and technology doesn’t seem to be a prerequisite. Recently the Lithuanian anti-piracy outfit changed its name, but forgot to register the new domain. It now belongs to the owner of one of the largest BitTorrent sites in the country.
There are a lot of BitTorrent users in Lithuania, and the two largest BitTorrent sites in the country, Torrent.lt and Linkomanija.net are in the top 20 of Lithuania’s most visited websites.
Of course, a country with plenty of ‘pirates’ has to have its own anti-piracy organization, and Lithuania is no different. The local anti-piracy outfit goes by the name ANVA, an acronym for ‘Antipiracines Veiklos Asociacija’. Their main targets are the local BitTorrent sites, which they have announced they will sue for millions in damages.
To use the word ‘Lithuania’ in a Lithuanian organization’s name requires government approval. Recently, ANVA changed its name to LANVA, after they succeeded in getting this authorization. This seal of approval may give the organization more credibility, but there is a small problem. They forgot to register the domain lanva.lt when they changed their name. Before, they were using anva.lt, but while they did make a new logo with the L included, registering a new domain didn’t come to mind.
Usually, mistakes like this can be easily overcome by paying a certain amount of money to the person who was smart enough to register the domain, but not this time. Kestas Ermanas, the owner of one of the largest BitTorrent sites in Lithuania, registered the domain as soon as he found out about the name change, and he is not planning to hand it over to his arch rival.
The domain Kestas bought currently displays the following message: “This is how it works. Whatever you sink, we build back up. Whomever you sue, ten new pirates are recruited. Wherever you go, we are already ahead of you. You are the past and the forgotten, we are the Internet and the future.”
LANVA has scheduled an emergency meeting next Thursday to discuss what they can do to get the lanva.lt domain in their possession. The chances that they will get the domain through a dispute are very slim though. There have been several cases in Lithuania where large companies sued owners of domain names, and they lost every single time.
This is not the first time that an anti-piracy organization has had a domain dispute with a BitTorrent site. October last year The Pirate Bay got hold of the domain name of IFPI, under which they wanted to launch the “International Federation of Pirate Interests.” The case was later lost by The Pirate Bay, but the fact that they acquired it in the first place is yet another example of the tech illiteracy of these organizations.
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Wow.
Just like the title says.
Pwned.
Ernesto can you please disable urls and website address’s in the comment box? Good to see one article where the ezee 12chan opendns and the rest of the spammer crowd haven’t got to it yet
I’ll consider it ;)
please keep the links relevant people…
On behalf of all the sane people around the world, and not those money hungry bastards I would like to say one thing…
PWND!
5 > spam
Awesome!
It seems like .lt domains work differently than .org domains.
@Ernesto
Would it be okay to keep it to the name?
Roze
Nicely done!
Epic pawn toast!
Ha Ha
Owned!
#5 Shut up keep it relevent!
anti piracy will never work.. :D
Suck it!
haha in yo face mother fucker!!
Finally, yet another time pirates have had a mass defeat of the opposing party.
As for the links, let them stay as long as theyre at the bottom on the post.
And why call ezee a spammer? His posts are almost always very lenghty and worth the read. Hardly spamming by my book.
@15 Ghost
I highly suspect that there is actually only one person complaining about the link “spamming” and that this one person has a personal grudge on myself for some irrational reason. I think that this person is calling everyone a spammer to seem like he/she has consistency. Of course, this is just my guess, and it may be wrong, but this is the feeling that I am getting.
I think that the best way to inflict a mass defeat on the anti-pirates is to flout their anti-piracy law in public. I think that derivative works are the best way to combat these anti-pirate groups.
Derivative works show that people are willing to create these works without monetary incentive, that copyright actually restricts creativity by banning derivative works, and that file-sharing actually has some uses and is not just leeching because when people file-share, then people will have greater ability to create these derivative works.
Roze
@24 uksucks
“Yes I know what a hypoctrite is, you are a perfect example.”
You support the dictatorship in North Korea. You said that you support the law – therefore, you must support North Korea.
“Regardless of your opinion on copyright, it is THEIR right and untill that changes whining about your information being shared while you defend your ?right? to do the same is a contradiction, that makes YOU the hypocrite.”
Works are not information about others. For example, fan-art is not sharing any information. Equation fan-art, fan-edits, fan-fiction, fan-subtitles, amongst other things with privacy breaches makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. You make absolutely zero sense whatsoever. You should get your head checked.
“You can blah blah all you like about slavery, communism, whatever, the fact that you even consider filesharing to be like them in any way only proves how perverted your views are.”
The fact that you are okay with the RIAA suing disabled teenagers proves how perverted your views are.
“Pull your head out your ass.”
That’s what you should do.
“Either everyone has the right to protect what belongs to them or no one does, that includes your right to privacy.”
I guess you should includes “that includes your slaves” as well. The fact that you equate private information with well-known public cultural symbols proves how distorted your world-view is. How is sharing the latest episodes of a TV show and creating fan-edits of it sharing any private information? What you are saying is absolutely ridiculous.
Roze
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I see your links and comments a lot, but to say they annoy me… no. Just the fact that people see it as spam, I can understand.
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Roze: “I highly suspect that there is actually only one person complaining about the link ?spamming? and that this one person has a personal grudge on myself for some irrational reason. I think that this person is calling everyone a spammer to seem like he/she has consistency. Of course, this is just my guess, and it may be wrong, but this is the feeling that I am getting.”
Wrong – I complain about your spamming with your off-topic website and there is at least one other person. Rose == Fail.
Hope fully he will milk some money or keep that domain. Small victory. thats it… pwned anyway
PWN3D
hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
On those moments like this I am proud to be Lithuanian.
that “Whatever you sink…” quote was actually written by The Pirate Bay crew in the restart of Suprnova. check their first news article. However, if I know the TPB guys right they’re probably just happy that the quote is being copied :)
i come here for torrent related news
not random links. comment on the story only! if not buy some advertising on the right hand side of this page. this is not a personal attack on rose or w/e ur name is there are lots of them.
on topic
seem as they government approval and all, wont they get involved and get the domain back for them?
Nice :]
TEE HEE HEE
PWND
they newer close that websites, because they are group of fucking redheads :D
Hmmm I like it!!!
pwned.
pirates ftw
LOL, that is pretty funny! You just gotta love those pirates!
http://www.anonymize.us.tc
I want to shut down TorrentFreak!
woopty doo, good for you asshole.
Thats just plain stupid. if lanva cant even get this right. They’re not gonna solve a gd thing anyway.
Good job I say !
Good Job;))) pwned
hahahaha fuck yeah !! Go Bittorrent !!
pwnage!
whahahha go lithuanian pirates, go go go :D
Roze and Ezee contribute something to the discussion consistently, while many other people with links come here and post something short (like “Can’t fight the future, LANVA”).
Roze only contributes confusion and half-baked idealism.
I’m pretty sure English isn’t his first first language.
He should sell the domain to them, and then report them to the police for funding an illegal bittorrent site which distributes copyrighted material. LOL.
They’d have to give evidence in court they had gathered to convict themselves. OK wouldn’t work but the ideas great :)
That might work, I don’t know if they have the 5th ammendment or anything of the sort in Lithuania.
“Roze only contributes confusion and half-baked idealism.”
So you don’t like their opinions. Fine, but that doesn’t mean they don’t contribute! Especially compared to the one liners trying just to promote their site.
Can one of the admins of TF ip ban the offtopic link spammers! please, its realy annoying
What I would do is make the url redirect to their site for a long time, so they get used to ‘having’ it, then pwn them by changing it to something else of your choosing(message against them, etc).
@Admins: I support removal of SPAM messages. If there is a URL in the Name or Message, just auto-delete it. I have never seen a relevant link in the comments, so it shouldn’t be an issue.
@44 Dec 06, 2008 at 16:58 by Anonymous
If you think my ideas suck and that you’re so much better than me, then why don’t you contribute your own ideas which are supposedly so much superior to mine?
@46 maybe
Well, here are the .lt domain regulations:
http://www.domreg.lt/static/doc/public/procedural_regulation-en.pdf
PWNED
Epic fail, LANVA :) LinkoManija is the best
@53 SHadowed
There is a slight problem with that, and it is that one would have to know their name-servers in order to do that. Of course, only they know their own name-servers.
i hope he gets a lot of money, and uses it to set up a similar named massive tracker.
ON A SIDENOTE
in .lt tho, so they could just TAKE it.
because, in Soviet Russia, domain takes YOU!
LM BEST!!!
Kestas rules!
Congrats from germany!
Keep up the good work.
@#24: No! He/She didn’t understand Ermanas’ intention, I guess…
We all make mistakes and that’s a
whopper mistake by this Lithuanian anti-piracy outfit!
thanks from tony at:
http://www.ntopics.com
Can someone please define pwned?
They could use that domain for their tracker!
Great response from the latvian pirates
can the trolls and spammers find some hole to dig themselves a new home, any cesspit will suffice :)
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Nice story got some chuckels & pride to be pirate
:D hahaha lol owned
The main irony os this domain p0wning was this: Several days before this domain incident there was article on Lithuanian daily newspaper internet portal. Head of ANVA made very brave promises how he would battle with pirates and owner of Linkomanija.net especially.
This was Linomanija.net retribution to ANVA’as threats . :) Before this article lanva.lt was not registered. It was registered right after this article about upcoming battles with pirates.
“in .lt tho, so they could just TAKE it.
because, in Soviet Russia, domain takes YOU!”
Lithuania is Lithuania, not Russia.
Uh no Roze your wrong, Im just one of many people who have voiced that your link spamming is annoying.
Stop thinking that you somehow make sense or that people would care enough to have a ‘grudge’ on you.. your a moron, stop spamming your crap site… and stop thinking you amount to anything more then the fart that just came out of my ass.
banning piracy from Lithuania is the same as banning bar nicva from the jewish
the message on the site is gone now. Just says “LANVA” in bold.
“This is how it works. Whatever you sink, we build back up. Whomever you sue, ten new pirates are recruited. Wherever you go, we are already ahead of you. You are the past and the forgotten, we are the Internet and the future.”
ooookay, sounds like a terrorist act to me…
Piracy is legal in Lithuania. You pay to authors by buying empty media
I hope they gave brokep his props :p
Im pretty sure Kestas was an uploader on torrentleech.
Good ole days, b4 my account got pruned. Missed my window to sign back up, for shame :(
thats because ur a retard who thinks every movement that isnt government is a terrorist act.
get your head out of your ass and wake up. anti-piracy gangs are the terrorist, and they just got owned.
Does anyone know about why it says “LANVA” now?? It makes me worry…
Ha ha ha! In you face, ANVA!
I think it would be nice, if this domain (anva.lt) would be used for torrent tracker. :]
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Epic fail :D .
2009 sausio m?n. 21 d. 09:02 Už „piratavim?” reikalaus 0,5 mln. Lt
Lietuvos antipiratin?s veiklos asociacija (LANVA) ruošia dokumentus teismui ir planuoja bendrovei, administruojan?iai tinklalap? linkomanija.net, pateikti 0,5 mln. Lt ieškin? žalai atlyginti. Asociacija kaltina bendrov? nelegaliu intelektin?s nuosavyb?s produkt? platinimu.
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