Ex-MPAA and IFPI Anti-Piracy Enforcer Shot Dead
Written by enigmax on November 05, 2008A man described as an “anti-piracy hero” has been gunned down in Thailand. Kasim Cha Tong, a former director of the MPA and anti-piracy campaigner for the IFPI, died by a single shot from a sawn-off shotgun. The killer escaped. Police are investigating the possibility that this was an assassination.
Kasim Cha Tong made a name for himself as deputy regional director of the IFPI, tackling music piracy in the 1980’s. Tong was also a director of the MPA, leading many anti-piracy operations. He gained respect from the US music industry for his efforts with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Agency, where he worked to support the rights of foreign musical artists.
On Monday night, 56 year-old Tong, now a leading lawyer, was having dinner in a Sungai Golok border town restaurant with friends, but when he left he was killed by a single shot from an assailant with a sawn-off shotgun. The killer then fled on a waiting motorcycle, with some reports suggesting two men were involved.
Ruling out robbery as a motive for the attack, deputy police chief Seman Wan Salleh said that he believed the killer was eating in the same restaurant as Tong, although the pair had no contact while they were there and no immediate incident prompted the attack. Police are looking into the possibility that this was an assassination.
A former policeman, Tong could’ve made enemies in many areas of his work, but commercial piracy is big business in his part of the world and attracts people prepared to take action direct action to protect their business.
MPA anti-piracy pooches, Lucky and Flo, found themselves under death-threat earlier this year, after they were involved in a major operation that netted around $3 million worth of pirate discs and burning equipment. The threats from the crime syndicate involved were taken seriously, with the Malaysian government taking steps to protect the dogs. This year, another anti-piracy dog, Manny, died under mysterious circumstances.
Divorced two years ago from his wife Irene, Tong leaves two sons and a daughter.
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162 Responses
Condolences with his family.
I read: Legalized-Mob-member killed by Real Mob.
Well what do you know ….
Piracy does kill!!!
That’s too bad.
Now how the F*** do you make enemies in the “piracy game”?! Seriously he must have seized the wrong persons pc…
The first actual victim of piracy … or rather anti-piracy. And these media idiots still believe that in the west filesharing is a threat … ha!
‘investigating the possibility that this was an assasination’?
because maybe it was just a leprechaun messing with peoples minds, making it look like one, while it was actually a heart attack?
that’s truly awful. rip, condolances to his family.
@6 well maybe if heart attacks create bullet hole sized orifices in random parts of the human body.
Bad buzz. Looks like hard copy Pirates are way too hardcore, sounds more like mob stuff then your standard peg leg.
Sympathies go out though, guy was just tryin to stop assholes making money off piracy.
Damn… To sad, no one should die because of piracy. Condolences to his family.
well at least my korean axx is safe :)
lmfao
may he be chewed to bits by millipedes! :P
FUCK’EM!
Sad and nothing for us to rejoice about.
This guy was going after the actual pirates, people who copy for profit and people who are connected to organized crime… unlike people like you and me who download for “private consumption” and (for all your anti-piracy clowns have capitalized it) “NON-PROFIT”.
Just a matter of time before something like this happens to the goons who work at the RIAA and then I dont think many will have any remorse for them… me included.
http://www.eZee.se
Kasim Cha Tong rip!
Don’t buy pirated material, don’t support criminals. Share instead!!
@8
I’m not sure you caught on to my sarcasm… or maybe I’m not catching on to yours?
This should not happen to those going after commercial pirates, but this should happen to those guys going after innocent people such as children, old people, even the decesased. This person does not deserve to be killed, but if anyone who is actually from the RIAA or some other body that targets innocent people gets killed, then there should be no remorse. After all, the people who go after non-profit file-sharers are very much criminal mob members themselves, and they are the ones who deserve this.
Roze
http://www.10ch.org/
Those who are downloading from the internet and watching at home are not pirates and not breaking any law ” we are sharing only”.
Pirate = Those who is selling CDs/DVDs, making $ from it, they are breaking the law, MPAA/RIAA/IFPI should stop them, not internet downloaders.
But i am sure, MPAA/RIAA/IFPI can’t stop them, if they try to, they’ll kill anti piracy agents same like Kasim Cha Tong.
God Bless Kasim Cha Tong !
He shouldn’t have touched big piracy gangs ;)
This horrible, pathetic excuse for a human being was actively working to stop me downloading (stealing) copyrighted content. He deserves to die!!
It’s great that he died! I hope he took a long, long time to croak and he was in extreme amounts of pain. If only members of his family were there to see him take the bullet and get spattered in his blood! I hope they also die horrible, slow and painful deaths. Especially his crazy wife and horrid sons and daughters!
This weezil deserves to die for stopping me stealing stuff! good riddance, I hope you rot in hell for eternity. Good riddance you slimy prick!
Nice to hear some good news occasionally.
unfortunate accident cough, but…. you anti-copyright people are pushing your limits with the people. Trying to turn the internet into a police state who do you people think you are?
Piracy in Asia and most 3rd world countries is miles away from the piracy we see in Western countries today.
Piracy in these countries consist mostly of organized crime organizations who make a lot of profit on the high prices the entertainment industry charge for their products in these parts of the world. The high prices combined with the poor disposable income and corruption/unwillingness of the law enforcement makes this business thrive. We see the same thing in Western countries as well with people smuggling highly taxed goods from cheap countries for a profit.
The media industry could easily lower piracy in these areas by simply lowering the cost of a DVD/CD to a level which most ordinary citizens could afford. I doubt anyone would choose buying a full priced movie over food for your family or even a pirated movie and food for your family.
Well Done!One parasite out!
This is the begining.
If you keep pulling hard on a rope it always end up breaking.
The rope is now broken.
The entairtainment parasites are no longer safe.
This is what they got for attacking innocent people on Internet. It generate sympathies for real criminals.
Good job Entairtainement industry morons!
burn in hell Kasim Cha Tong
At first i thought this guy was after file sharers and i just laughed and breathed his share of oxygen.. but then I see he was after commercial pirates and I became very sad..
Commercial pirates have no excuse, they are parasites.
You people need to stop being jerks. The guy was doing his job, that you don’t like, but the guy still died so it’s not anything to be happy about.
Although its actually frightening how easy you can get killed, I dont actually feel sorry for the MPAA thug.
He was a copyright nazi by profession, whose job it was to bully and threaten innocent people because they refused to accept the dogma of “intellectual property” and refused to stop sharing information and files with their friends and family.
Sharing information and communicationg with other people is a important part of being human, and people tend to get aggressive in self defence if a fierce censorship system like the so called “copyright” is enforced upon them.
I dont wonder at all that someone, whose life maybe was destroyed by the MPAA for the sake of maintenance of the IP dogma, took justice in his hands ald blew the head of this censorship nazi.
As long as they keep destroying peoples lives by litigation, the cnances are rising that people who have nothing more to lose beause their life was ruined because of 24 shared songs, saw off a shotgun and risk or sacrifice their life in order to fight the MPAA fascists.
south-eastern asia seems to be becoming a dangerous region for anti-pirates °°
but ezee is right, it’s really nothing to rejoice. i gotta admit i wouldn’t mourn if someone scratched the car of one of those lawyers who send cease-and-desist letters just for the profit of it but this is something else. those guys are making profit of other people’s work and that’s what copyright laws were meant to prevent. only now we ordinary citizens have been lumped together with them and everyone who’s burning a few dvds is already a half-criminal … not to think of scene groups:
take a look at this http://www.cybercrime.gov/pitmanSent.htm “Oldest Game Software Piracy Ring on the Internet” ,”organized Internet gangs like Razor1911″. It sounds like razor is the fkn mafia and people believe it because media doesn’t make any difference between them and those guys mentioned in the article.
I dont think most of these idiots posting read the entire article. No one deserves to die, and this guy wasn’t going after “you or me” he was going after organized crime members, and stopping them from selling copies of DVDs/Music on the streets. None of you are organized crime members, or so I hope. So none of you should harbor any bad feelings towards him. He was an innocent person and deserves to be respected. Fuck all of you talking shit, you’re the one that doesn’t deserve to live.
>You people need to stop being jerks.
You need to stop defending nazis.
>The guy was doing his job,
So was Dr. Mengele.
>that you don’t like,
His job was planing and executing legal attacks on innocent people in order to make them stop “illegal sharing”.
>but the guy still died
Why should I care for a nazi?
>so it’s not anything to be happy
>about.
It is, because there now is one thug less to execute legal attacks on innocent people.
Soem people here think it was a good thing Kasim got killed.
I do not agree at all. We can allways fight on words, but violence should never come to our mind AT ALL.
Though Kasim was “against” us, he didnt deserve to die, because he was doing something he believed in.
R.I.P Kasim….
Remember, this man’s enemies are the enemies of free culture; they would as surely put a bullet in someone running a p2p tracker as an anti-piracy agent since both threaten their commercial operations. Ask the guy selling dodgy DVDs at the boot-sale, he’ll tell you that his business is in decline and will blame file-sharers before the MPAA, IFPI, FACT et al.
It is an interesting arrangement: labels vs. pirates vs. file-sharers vs. labels. It should be noted, however, that only one of these groups will never kick in your door, take your belongings and your money, or just shoot you dead at the first opportunity.
Damn , no one deserves to die for doing there job good
he must have been killed by these very organised gangs, when you see asian people on the streets selling Dvd’s and such this is where these places come from
these gangs not must not have liked what he was doing there, after all One pissed off defendant does go and saw a shotgun off to kill someone over copyright.
you reap what you sow. you supported the evil anti-piracy movement and you payed for it with your life.
To all the people saying he deserved to die, you are low life pathetic scum. His job was going after real pirates, not internet filesharers, learn to read losers.
@16
What the hell is wrong with you?
>To all the people saying he deserved
>to die, you are low life pathetic
>scum.
So are you, nazi defender.
>His job was going after real >pirates, not internet filesharers,
The company he works for does not make such a difference.
>learn to read losers.
Go post in a MPAA forum, nazi apologetic.
>Damn , no one deserves to die for
>doing there job good
He maybe didnt _deserve_ to die, but he probably destroyed so many lives of people not willing to accept the religion of “intellectual property”, that it doesnt suprise anybody that some asian which life has been destroyd by this MPAA inquisitor went berserk and killed him.
” At first i thought this guy was after file sharers and i just laughed and breathed his share of oxygen.. but then I see he was after commercial pirates and I became very sad..
Commercial pirates have no excuse, they are parasites.”
The only difference between file sharers and and commercial pirates is commercial pirates make a profit by selling copyrighted works. There’s not very much difference you moronic asshat: they both distribute copyrighted content. If anything commercial pirates are providing content to the poorest of the poor in third world countries who can’t afford computers or internet to obtain the material like we do.
The owners of large public (and some private) trackers also profit off their websites that serve torrent to copyrighted works.
@26: “organized Internet gangs like Razor1911? … well, razor1911 are organised primarily over the internet and they constitute an organisation.
Eat shit and die Kasim Cha Tong, I hope you rot in hell and your family suffers long and hard. I hope you died a slow, painful death and that you drowned in your own blood.
feel sorry about his family, but this idiot deserved it!
Learn to read muuh-gnu you young boy. The dude went after commercial pirates, so finish grade 4 and learn to read better.
Well done!! this is that he deserves. Any lawyer from the copyright MAFIAA who wants to make easy money destroying the life of innocent people deserves this and more.
I am really happy that this happened. I hope that members from similar anti-piracy organizations get the same destiny.
I’m sickened by some of the posts here.
The guy was just doing what he believed was right, just the same as file sharers believe in the right to share files.
Should we all be killed by the anti-piracy enforcers because we don’t conform to their way of thinking?
This may not even have anything to do with his anti-piracy efforts.
R.I.P
i dont think this will be the last time either
WTF is wrong with you people, this guy was going after criminal gangs making money, not P2P file sharing.
He didnt deserve to die to trying to stop these people.
Well…If we look hard enough for anything positive in this, I’d say this event just made his line of work much less attractive in that particular region.
But then again, this could mean they would be too scared and stop focusing on the commercial pirates…And instead go after more easy targets -> Filesharers…
I’m not so sure this was a good thing.
@’some dude’ (post 40)
‘I’m sickened by some of the posts here.’
I am sickened of seeing a lot of posts from anti-piracy organizations saying that this is nice that a guy get 10 years in jail only for sharing a movie with a friends, for example.
I am also sickened of seeing a lot of posts from anti-piracy organizations saying that filesharers (in general) deserve to die or to go to the jail.
In a few words, that lawyer got that he deserved as consequence for his unjust actions. The anti-piracy organizations don’t make any difference between an internet user who shares a few internet songs with a few friends from a community and a pirate who sells copies from DVDs or CDs in a public place.
I thought it was a myth, but some people really have no brain at all… Save mankind and shoot yourself in the head instead.
@40 – ” I’m sickened by some of the posts here.”
Get over it, the guy deserved to die a horrible, tortured death in great pain and agony.
“The guy was just doing what he believed was right, just the same as file sharers believe in the right to share files.”
This fascist prick would have argued to have you thrown you in jail. Personally if I knew where hi grave was I’d go spit on it and dance a jig on it yelling “Sucked in your dead you scumbag.”
“Should we all be killed by the anti-piracy enforcers because we don’t conform to their way of thinking?”
No. But again, it’s great news that this fascist prick is dead and I hope his family is very, very sad right now.
“This may not even have anything to do with his anti-piracy efforts.”
Who cares? He deserved to die a painful, tortuerous death. I salute his murderers for clearing out the scum from the earth.
“R.I.P”
I hope this awful man spends an eternity rotting in hell. Screw him, it’s a great, great day now that he died and I want to dance all over his grave and do a big, fat poop on it for his family to clean up.
Average age of posters here = 12
To all who think that this guy deserved to die, read post #18: copyright infringement in SE Asia is mostly in the form of criminal gangs making profits – who are in now way in support of any “free culture.”
Cast your deathwish to the people going after non-profit file-sharers, not to this guy.
Roze
Average IQ of nWo = 12
@45
45 said:
‘Save mankind and shoot yourself in the head instead.’
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The same thing I say to you, anti-piracy scum:
Save mankind and shoot yourself in the head, thus eliminating another anti-piracy parasite scum from the world.
But Roze, these criminal gangs are providing a service to people who cannot obtain either computers or internet access in many cases. Criminal gangs are breaking copyright in the same way that file-sharers are: by making copies. Often they are selling them for very reasonable rates compared to retailers. What – you don’t think poor people should have access to media, or that they should’nt have the oppotunity to make a little money by breaking copyright?
You’d have to be a real dumbass to think there’s this huge gap between organised gangs and filesharers in principle.
Has anyone noticed that The Pirate Bay really, really sucks ass?
He deservewd to die – look at him, he looks like a chi1d m0lestin’ faggot.
Good riddance.
This man was worse than any Nazi! Good riddance, the world is a much better place now that he is gone. I want to piss and take a shit on his grave an dthen rub it all over the tombstone.
I want to exhume his grave and do a shit in his mouth and then tie him up to the back of my truck and drag the body all around town singing a joyous song.
I hate this man so much, I’m so glad he’s dead.
I find it a little difficult to shed a tear for Kasim Cha Tong.
Why?
Becuase there’s a reason commercial piracy is so prolific in places like Malaysia, and that reason is the insane prices that the MAFIAA asks for. Prices which are completely out of touch with the local economy(Hey kids, stop buying from those nasty commercial pirates! You should just buy CDs from us, good ‘ole Uncle MAFIAA! What? You say you’d go hungry? Bah! Starving builds character!), not to mention the extremely poor release distribution they give to ‘lesser’ regions.
Commercial pirates, on the otherhand, price to fit the economy and release absolutely everything under the sun. Yes, it really sucks that some commercial piracy outfits do seriously criminal things on the side, or are fronts for larger criminal enterprises. But you can’t just say “Commercial piracy bad, Kasim Cha Tong good! Poor guy!”. It isn’t that simple.
What about those commercial pirates whose ONLY crime was commercial piracy? Get rid of them, and you force people to just do without. Let the police handle commercial piracy outfits run by dangerous criminals. If Kasim Cha Tong wanted to address the real problem, he should have pushed for reforms to the copyright industry.
@52
If so, then those gangs should donate their profits to the creators, or something. In any case, it should be known that they are there for self-interest, not for any principles of “distributing freely to people.”
I know, this guy was from the IFPI, and MPAA etc., which probably means that he probably was one who is not so innocent on the whole. However, it can hardly be considered proper retribution if he was killed for going after commercial piracy rather than for non-commercial.
Therefore, I feel, that even if he did deserve it, that he died for the wrong reason, and that the ones who deserve it more are the ones in the United States.
Roze
I wish Kasim Cha Tong hadnt been shot. But rather that he’d caught cancer and died over a period of 5 years without morphine. He died way too fast.
I too want to take a big fat poop on his headstone. This guy was the scum of the earth.
@58 : So, your not using BT out of self-interest then?
Everyone acts out of self-interest whether they’ll admit it or not.
@Roze (post 48)
Roze said:
‘To all who think that this guy deserved to die, read post #18: copyright infringement in SE Asia is mostly in the form of criminal gangs making profits – who are in now way in support of any “free culture.’
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False statement.
In Thailand, the ISP could be forced to take down pages with copyrighted material; and even could be subject of criminal prosecution.
In a few words, you could be subject of criminal prosecution if you share a few songs with a few guys in your blog hosted in Thailand, for example; ‘thanks’ to the copyright MAFIAA (aka MPAA and IFPI)
Roze, the next time; You could inform yourself better.
@58 : … and if they should donate their profits to the creators then why should’nt you buy there products then ?
@57
I think that the better alternative to commercial piracy is for there to be distribution that charges money just enough to cover the costs, and a some extra in case not all get sold. This may be a viable way for there to be physical non-commercial distribution.
I suppose that there may be validity to what you say, though.
Roze
@61
Yeah, that sounds really bad. I am only going by what I have read here; forgive my lack of being informed.
Well, I don’t know much about Thailand, but I think that it is very important for such a thing to happen here in the United States. Hopefully, it will happen to the top people of the RIAA soon.
Roze
People die in wars too, doesn’t make war bad.
good…i hope he thought about his actions in life before he died. He worked for the devil (greedy corporations) and died by a creation of greedy corporations (shotgun/firearm)…how ironic!
Wow, some really nasty comments from some f***ed up people. I would echo what others have said – people should read the article. 59 did make a interesting read though – but in most cases the guy selling dvd’s in the market where I live will be only to happy to sell you some shitty cam of something burnt on a cheap disk in a paper case.
So yes, whilst they are providing poorer people with something, even if its peanuts in comparison to what they get charged at shops, its still probably not worth the money.
R.I.P
@30
RIP stands for Rest In Pieces ;)
This is proof that karma exists.
Although a life was lost, people like that are more focused on allowing corporate media to control our world. So what he’s really doing is trying to keep evil in power.
Now if someone had assassinated an individual who sacrifices themselves and their time so that rest of the world can benefit by the dispersion of information, that would be a tragedy.
Guess he got what he deserved. Should have kept his nose in his OWN business and not everyone elses. maybe it will send a strong message to others.
Jess
http://www.Ultimate-Anonymity.com
I’m not fully aware of how commercial piracy works in the east, if its close to western where ppl sell crappy cd’s and cam filmed movies, then this guy did not deserve to be shot.
But if the commercial pirates are selling quality cd’s and dvd’s at cheap price (Just enough to cover the expences and to keep the business working)
Then that guy got what he deserved since as ppl pointed out, many ppl there do not have access to internet or even have the money to buy anything but food for yourself and your family.
And nothing of importance was lost.
>>He gained respect from the US music industry for his efforts with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Agency
>>his efforts with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Agency
>>Malaysian Anti-Corruption Agency
>>Anti-Corruption Agency
ernesto you should be ashamed! read the confusion in this thread between criminal activity and filesharing
a man is dead because he was fighting criminals NOT filesharers
you “play pirates” make me fukin sick
you BIG MAN ERNESTO you play A BIG GAME with the CRIMINALS
the filesharers spit on you
http://www.h33t.com where the fight against criminals goes both ways, we fight the pirates, we fight the cartels
filesharing for freedom of access
filesharing for freedom of information
filesharing for freedom of opportunity
hooah
Condolences to the family.
Wait till the press gets it…”Pirates are murderers!”
“Those who are downloading from the internet and watching at home are not pirates and not breaking any law ” we are sharing only”.”
We are sharing, but we are pirates and we are breaking laws. There are copyright infringement laws, you know. We are breaking them. Whether we think they matter or not, they do exist. I don’t care that I am breaking them, I don’t care about them, I don’t think what I am doing is wrong, but I know what I am doing.
“He was a copyright nazi by profession, whose job it was to bully and threaten innocent people because they refused to accept the dogma of “intellectual property” and refused to stop sharing information and files with their friends and family.”
People selling pirated stuff really aren’t sharing with their friends and family…
This guy was not going after us. He wasn’t going after people sharing in their homes with friends. He was going after people who sell pirated stuff.
On a slightly lighter note, i’m always going to think of 70 when someone says rip now which is really bad considering that I have to sit through something on friday where it will be said a lot.
Sad story.
However, whats this about anti-piracy dogs?
I want to know more about them!
>There are copyright infringement
>laws, you know. We are breaking
>them. Whether we think they matter
>or not, they do exist.
Laws so out of touch with reality like modern copyright need to be broken. When unjustice becomes a law, resistance becomes a duty.
When the copyright nazis try to criminalize us in masses, by thousands and millions, ruin us by severe lawsuits, put us in jails for “sharing”, all in order to artificially hold a already dead business model alive, everybody blindly following the letter of law blindly just because it is a law is actually harming his fellow citizens.
@82
i don’t see how this helps the piracy side of things. if anything, it just demonstrates to the public eye that pirates are all bent on killing to get things for free.
you sit at home and don’t do jack shit but torrent your files. commenting on torrentfreak doesn’t make you part of any “resistance”.
if you really did have the balls to back up your words, you’d also be toting a shotgun and hunting down all the **aa execs pronto.
let just hope others not copycat from this or things will really out of control .
@83
It at least shows that file-sharing people care about what they do as a principle rather than merely just wanting to “pirate stuff.” This is an example to radical resistance – something that has happened for many political/social movements in the past, and which needs to happen here in the United States.
Roze
@84
How shall it get out of control? When all anti-pirates (at least the ones who go after non-commercial file-sharers) are dead? Really, that won’t be so bad.
Roze
roze, you are an imbecile. even your pirate cohorts often have trouble understanding your ridiculous posts. worse than that, you have now revealed yourself to be a sociopath.
the funny thing is you’re probably a tiny little nerd in real life and of no consequence or threat to anybody.
Not very bright.
Messing with multi-million dollar illegal businesses in 3rd world countries is a good way to get your ass shot. Leave it to professionals.
If it not like suing single mothers and children on KaZaa and Limewire.
The MPA and IFPI should leave busting commerical pirates to law enforcement, especially in 3rd world countries. They may find their people live longer.
“people prepared to take action direct action”
I think that extra “action” is a typo
@87
That’s funny. Imbecile? If I had a Death Note, those people in the RIAA and MPAA etc. would be the first ones writ in it. I am sure that for many here, they would do the same if they had a death note. One could call it divine retribution, or something. Normally, I would be against the death penalty, even for the worst of crimes, but I will make an exception for the people in the industry going after non-commercial file-sharers.
Roze
Definitely some ignorance going on in here. This man was fighting to shut down commercial piracy, why are you people celebrating his death?
Yes, perhaps some people have been targeted incorrectly, and some of you fear being targeted yourselves, but this is a LIFE.
If you get sued by the MPAA or RIAA, you can fight it and win. This man does not have his option. Stop being a bunch of heartless pricks!
“Normally, I would be against the death penalty, even for the worst of crimes, but I will make an exception for the people in the industry going after non-commercial file-sharers.”
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WOW! You really are an idiot!
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” roze, you are an imbecile. even your pirate cohorts often have trouble understanding your ridiculous posts. worse than that,
ROFL, I’ve been thinking this for ages with the way he/she craps on about artists deserve no compensation (for years of hard work), culture is consciousness and
that copyright is destroying people’s minds and ability to think. Frankly most of the time this person sounds like a drug deluded maniac who lives in an institution who is too young to realise that constant drug taking will screw up your sense of consciouness. They sound sound out of touch with basic facts that are evident to people who experience reality for what it is.
” you have now revealed yourself to be a sociopath.”
Don’t worry, he/she feels big and strong by fantasizing about using a Death Note on people then telling us about it, nothing to worry about.
“the funny thing is you’re probably a tiny little nerd in real life and of no consequence or threat to anybody.”
I’d add to that a fairly low self-image and sense of place in the world. This is evidenced by the writings that indicate he/she believes himself to be of far higher than average intelligence that “most others”. This is often a ruse used by people like this to compensate for the fact that they feel so inadequate when they think of others and they’re place in the world.
N ow some words from the subjects mouth that show how smart he is:
“Normally, I would be against the death penalty, even for the worst of crimes, but I will make an exception for the people in the industry going after non-commercial file-sharers.”
Yes, that’s right, here is a “thinking” person who thinks that murderers, child molesters and rapists should be spared but people emoloyed in an anti-piracy role have committed a far worse crime and deserve to be executed. (Preferably by him with his Dath Note).
Some people are just born losers – I bet Roze was teased and brutally bullied in high school and it’s permanently changed them.
Good riddance to this faggot.
#57 had me in tears. Poop-humour is the best. :)
P.S. Rest In Shit, MAFIAA KKKop.
No pity…
@94
It seems like you enjoy taking more about myself than my ideas. “I am a lozer.” Yeah, whatever. I don’t know what exactly has gotten into you, but I don’t see why I am so important, that it merits you talking about myself so much. After all, it is my ideas that matter, not myself.
Note: The death note thing was figurative anyways – in case you haven’t catched that.
Note 2: This is irrelevant, but since you have brought it up, I do consider myself more educated than average, but not the best. I do know a little Differential Geometry and Topology, but not much more. I am more of a reader than a “nerd.” I have not so much a low view of myself as I do have a low view of the world itself. Nice tries to guess, but you have guessed wrong. It is highly inappropriate to make guesses about other people whom you know so little about, through the internet, anyways, such as “I bet Roze was teased and brutally bullied in high school and it’s permanently changed them.” I wonder why you are so obsessed with me in the first place.
Roze
As the late, great Bill Hicks once said:
“We lost a moron – I just felt the world get lighter.”
He was a cop, ergo he was bent – & prolly brutalised those he arrested.
All of you screaming for compassion seem to be forgetting the facts; the guy was a convicted paedophile…
(eheheh) =]
By the way, I think that this would have been better if it happened as a reaction to the taking down of EliteTorrents, or the ODEX incident, or the taking down of Oink, or even Napster, all the way back then, &c. Surely they deserve more justice and retribution than these for-profit commercial criminal gang pirates.
Roze
Perhaps this is a relevant thing that people should know:
http://nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Wednesday/National/2393529/index.pda
“Kasim became a household name when he led numerous anti-piracy operations.”
This means that his actions were not just limited to commercial piracy, but also to non-commercial file-sharing as well. It is a shame that he was killed for commercial piracy, since it is may have been a good thing that he went after criminal commercial pirates (maybe not, since they reduce the prices to make them affordable), but he was also one who went after all file-sharing, commercial or non-commercial, and thus he is still bad, even if he was killed for a less-than-good cause.
Roze
I HOPE U BURN IN HELL MO-FO!!!!
It’s your ideas that are the problem.
Yeah, we all know,
“hunting little children and destroying their lives just because their were sharing some music”
is all fun and games.
Until you meet a faster person, that destroys YOUR live before you do the same.
So, RIAA sock puppets, some valuable lesson for you:
Extortion money doesn’t always come free and safe. Sometimes they fight back.
With a vengeance.
Antipiracy “hero”?
More like *an* hero, amirite?
the people who go far enough to assassinate this guy are obviously not file sharers but your typical crooks. prayers to his family
http://www.raidz.net
Let me tell You something : this man DID NOT DESERVE TO DIE!
I hope they catch the fuckers that killed him and hang them high! He was only doing his job going after fucking parasites that commercial pirates are. They all should be caught and judged. File-sharers are not criminals and entertainment ind should stop bugging them
I have a great solution for ent. ind: share Your material on Ypour websites for ex in 20 pieces a game – if You wa nt to dl a game for free , You must dl it in 20 piecies rar, everytime wathcing two commercials – that way the producer gets his money and ordinary man gets product for free. Isn`t that great ?
Anyways : God shine on this poor man`s soul. I hope his in better world now :(
The worst is that riaa will probably use this to make more propaganda about fileshares.
Remember that video propaganda a few months ago, in which filesharing was related to all kinds of crimes.
So, like Mr T would say, I pity the fool !
This cruel, evil, sadistic man has got whta was coming to him. Like others I hope he died a slow and painful death I just wish his family was there to see him kick the bucket.
I want to smear dog–shit all over his gravestone and then rub it in his wifes face and inside her mouth.
Sucked in you piece of crap, die.
In Thailand, copyright “piracy” has been controlled by organized mobsters who run the underground CD/DVD-pressing factories and deliver the counterfeit goods to shops around the country.
The environment is probably not unlike the infamous Colombian drug trade (with cops, judges, and politicians routinely assassinated).
Of course, the Copyright Cartel propaganda machine will be shifted into high gear trying to associate this sort of violent organized crime with innocent young kids downloading pop songs — even though, as we all know, the two situations have absolutely nothing in common.
“The killer escaped?”
Correction:
“The exterminator is not available for comments.”
“The worst is that riaa will probably use this to make more propaganda about fileshares.”
No the worst is that his family are in a great deal of pain for a dead family member.
And all of you who made sick comments rejoicing his death are terrible, inconsiderate, and heartless pieces of shit.
I hope you people die in the ways you described how you wished him to.
Sick sick bastards.
Who said it was gunned down by a file sharer? Ha? U people just don’t see what’s happening… They are trying to say that anty-piracy people are good and file-sharers are bad people who can comite crimes in the real world not just over the internet…They try to make it look like a hero who died for a good cause!!!
I want to hang his body up from a flagpole and throw large pieces of dog crap at it. It is a great day now that this evil, sadistic poor excuse for a man has died. I offer my appreciation and congratulations to his killers on a job well done.
@111, Concerned – so if you wish us to dies more horible deaths than him aren’t you just like us?
@112
yeh, and it’s working.
@109 – “Of course, the Copyright Cartel propaganda machine will be shifted into high gear trying to associate this sort of violent organized crime with innocent young kids downloading pop songs — even though, as we all know, the two situations have absolutely nothing in common.”
Should the RIAA and MPAA even consider doing as such, they will receive such large whiplash and pushback that they’re going to feel stupid.
But for the people here who continue to make fun of this man, how can you even make such comments? I’m sure that this involved organized crime, so why are you saying he’s a piece of shit? Even if he targets SOME innocents, these underground commercial pirates do cause problems for you and I regardless.
http://www.jonlim.ca
@113
how old do you think most of the people who made these comments are? as long as they have this mindset that its okay to murder to get their points across, then that makes it easy to paint them all as able to commit such acts.
I’m saying he’s a disgusting piece of shit because that’s what he was.
I’m so gload he was executed, good riddance the world is a better place without his ilk in it.
I’m glad he’s dead, sucked in!!
a worst than nazi slave bitch got killed, good, kill’em all!
*yawn* What a shame. Violence begets violence. Maybe this will teach them to leave people alone.
My sincere condolences to his family. The organized crime side of piracy is a very bad and scary thing.
Maybe this will make law enforcement go after those in the organized for profit pirates and not just simple file sharers.
While I can’t condone killing, I can’t shed any sympathy either. People in those countries are poor, they can’t affort rip off western prices. The way media is sold and distributed is very morally questionable anyway. Although allot of the gangs doing piracy in a big way are probably full of scum they do the people a deserved service. Put it this way, why sell something for ten times it’s reproduction cost even when the production cost has been covered in excess.
lolfag
Sorry, not 110
So:
@112 :
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@112 : youre the sick moron offering condolences to this scum and his family. Seriously are you gai?
@103
You are the one who is sympathizing with scum worse than a nazi; your ideas are the problem.
Roze
The anti-piracy morons know that this will happen if you go agains’t real pirates so no wonder they only go after kids and grandparents. Think about this for a sec, who is more likely to fight back? A 14 year old kid downloading music because his parent’s wont buy it for him or real mob related criminals making millions from selling counterfeit movies and music? Anti-piracy idiots take the easy way out and only attack internet piracy because they dont want to die.
Prick deserved to die. No doubt, he was an evil, disgusting man of th evilest nature. Good riddance, I hope you rot in hell…
That is sad, now another scum sucker will take his place.
i love how people just accuse this guy of being a nazi because he works in anti-piracy, comment 128 being pretty self explanitory… His work didn’t even apply to any of who, assuming commenters on torrentfreak aren’t involved in asian organized crime syndicates.
its better to kill some pirates
they dont deserve to live
I hope the next one wil get hit by a axe in the face :D
One criminal killing another criminal.
The problem is solveing itself.
I love it !
its sad he’s dead. its not right that someone shoul have there life taken from them for it. okay people get fined and maybe even put in prison for a few years but not killed…
Sad.
HEIL HITLER
We mustn’t allow this to be used to paint file-sharers as killers.
@140
yes, i can see the comments on this article helping the cause immensely.
wow, that’s a lot of nasty comments.
About the only thing I didn’t see said was “I did it”
I did it.
Now Carry shitman and Glueman.
It’s never a good thing when a fellow human dies. If he was a piracy enforcer in the 80s, its likely that he was going after real piracy: the people who sell pirated copies of content (I guess that meant VHS tapes for him). Those kind of anti-piracy laws *should* be enforced and I do not put them on the same level with freely distributed content (copyrighted or not) in any way. There are plenty of mob types involved in commercial piracy in Asian countries.
you people are such losers! a man has been brutally murdered, and you are bitching abt piracy matters.. lets hope your fathers, children and loved ones die a brutal death or maybe even a slow death.. F*ckers!
“You people need to stop being jerks. The guy was doing his job, that you don’t like, but the guy still died so it’s not anything to be happy about.”
So.. basically you can say the same about the killer, since he probably got paid for it. Just doing his job. As long as you get paid for doing something unethical, it’s all good.
@146: “you people are such losers! a man has been brutally murdered, and you are bitching abt piracy matters.. lets hope your fathers, children and loved ones die a brutal death or maybe even a slow death.. F*ckers!”
Your a f**k-faced m0r0n – your the dumbs**t getting all worked up about some ppl celebrating this wonderful event of this man execution – AND YOU DONT EVEN KNOW HIM. LOL.
Also – you are a m0r0n because in the next sentence you do what exactly we are doing that got your panties in a knot in the first place. So you are like us except we didn’t get all gai about it and spout off in anger.
Take a valium you mental case… this sad excsue of a man deserved to die, the only problem is he didn’t die slowly or painfully enough and his family wasn’t there to watch that happen. It is a well acknowledgfed fact that the world is now a better place without this horrid lawyer in it.
652 Diggs so far… let the world know about this excellent happening!! Give more Diggs!!!!!!!!!!!
@145
He is not a police officer. He was a nazi.
@146
You’re the loser for sympathizing with a nazi.
Roze
Wrong Place .Wrong Time.
The rest can be history if I’m NOW.
So, we can all rest assured that the majority of filesharers think it’s good that this guy is dead.
http://www.h33t.com where we fantasize about executing copyright police.
you don’t fuck with p2p
none of the places mentioned is in thailand. so where the fuck this headline? as a former police-fag he probably didn’t got killed bcoz his work for the mpa. what was he doing at the border? he could aswell be involved with drugs or human traffik, weapons… etc. he possibly was a corrupt police shit anyway. like the most police are around here in asia! he should’ve payed the child hooker he boned, else the pimp will do him…
waste them all…
Where is the web sheriff when you need him?
darndest case of suicide i;ve ever heard of…..
You guys are absolutely horrible. Wishing that his death was deserving does not do justice to his actions against a very, very dangerous conterfeit industry, backed by armed criminal organizations.
I can agree that the content industry has overreached in their quest to quell “filesharing”, but remember this: he was fighting the very organizations that may deal with illegal firearms trading, drug and human trafficking, etc. Do not forget that, unless you yourselves are buying that meth from some dealer, for which I give you my big middle finger, and wished you grew infertile.
A sad day, RIP, Kasim Cha Tong. He didn’t deserves this.
police have narrowede down the list of suspects to about 100000000 people
Wow. That’s a bit harsh, but if you want to “declate war” you need to be prepared for war. A gang of thugs won’t play around with out-of-court settlements. Perhaps they should have stuck with ruining the lives of 12-year-old girls and drunken undergrads.
Seriously, read the entire post before you respond. This guy was dealing with a lot more than p2p.
He was probably killed for something else and pirates are the patsy’s.
may he be chewed to bits by millipedes
i think it makes me happy , im sure he was happy when he screwed over the ppl that had to give his company 3 mil thats a lot of money !!!
I like how the article took the time to say “CRIME SYNDICATE”, a bunch of people looking to screw people out of their money just like the copy protection agencies. If this in any way causes backlash against file sharing, then it’s just a matter of time before things come to a head. File sharers are voters too!
All anti-pirate goons deserve 20ga buckshot to the face. Regardless of the intent of the pirate, these a-holes want war, let it be war.
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