FBI Tracks Down Oscars BitTorrent Uploaders

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February 21, 2009
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The FBI has tracked down two individuals who uploaded Oscar screeners to BitTorrent trackers. The pair are accused of uploading screeners of Australia, Benjamin Button and Slumdog Millionaire to The Pirate Bay, Demonoid and Movie Hogs. They face harsh punishment of three years in jail.

FBI Two Californian men have been charged with uploading leaked copies of Oscar-nominated Hollywood movies to the Internet.

According to the U.S. attorney’s office, yesterday a federal grand jury indicted Derek Hawthorne of Moorpark and Owen Moody of San Marcos on federal copyright violation charges.

Hawthorne is charged with uploading ‘Australia’ to a torrent site known as Movie Hogs and ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ to Demonoid.com. Moody is charged with uploading the hit movie “Slumdog Millionaire” to The Pirate Bay.

The pair have been contacted by the FBI who ordered them to surrender to authorities next week. The charges are ‘Uploading a copyrighted work being prepared for commercial distribution’ which is a term under the tough Family Entertainment and Copyright Act, previously used to jail Star Wars uploaders at the now-defunct EliteTorrents site.

They face a possible punishment of three years in jail and fines of $250,000.

Authorities also arrested a third man last week. Jack Yates of Porter Ranch, an employee at a Los Angeles duplication company, is accused of illegally copying the movie ‘The Love Guru’. Yates was asked to copy the movie by Paramount so that Jay Leno could show a clip on his show but allegedly he also made a copy for himself which he passed to friends, one of which uploaded the movie to the Internet.

It’s alleged that Yates lied to the FBI so he faces stiffer punishment than the previously mentioned pair. The offense of copying the movie carries a sentence of up to a year in jail but for lying to the authorities he could get five years. He is scheduled to be arraigned March 16 2009.

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Maxexcloo

I think these laws are far too harsh.

I mean, 3 years of you life wasted for a 2 hour movie?
Hulk

@Maxexcloo:

Welcome to the Plutocracy/Corporatocracy, where money buys laws. The times of a “government of the people, by the people, for the people” are long gone.
Joe

So this is where my tax dollars are being wasted? =/
Anonymous

Spending resources to find people who upload a movie?? :O
pterion

@Maxexcloo

Serves them right – anyone who actually watched Benjamin Button knows that it felt like losing 3 years of your life. It was way longer than 2 hours, and boooooring.
People should be jailed for releasing movies that bad.
jim

LOL

copying the movie could get him a year in jail (bad enough…)
- lying to the FBI could make that 5…

That’s 1 fucked up law you guys got there ;-)
Mario

How much does it cost to put someone in prison for three years, and who funds it?
waffen 777

They should prepare for battle
Live free or die hard
Law…

Here in Brazil, many people spend years in jail, for stealing soap (detergent), food, and things alike.
Law…
bbfg

This changes nothing… They should try to fix the leaks within their own industry, if the movies aren’t leaked, they can’t be uploaded:).

But that would be too hard so they do this to look good but the only thing they are doing is ruining the lifes of these 3 men… Stupid FBI.
Spurious

Who uploads DMCAnoid anymore anyway?
[bsod]

the internets been out of control and completly lawless during the bush administration, credit cards, piracy, botnets, kiddie porn, ect.. the entire fbi has been on terrorist duty, obama’s gonna fix that sucks for us
icecream

I didn’t know FBI is MPAA’s bitch,
but I guess that’s the way it goes.

ps.: Despite world financial crisis and global unemployment rising, USA government still has money and resources to track down those nasty and mean seeders.
Name

FBI doesn’t seem to have anything better to do than track down people who upload movies. Oh, someone important was brutally murdered? Screw that, this guy uploaded a screener!

And three years for uploading a movie? Yeah.. that’s just ridiculous.
Moloc

I must say that it feels wonderful living in sweden after reading articles like these. At least this far, the government doesn’t think it’s worth wasting tax payers money on hunting pirates.
Anonymous

They don’t give a fuck if you hurt flesh and blood, that don’t cost nothing, but you’ll get like 12 months for copyright infringement.
shamwow

Instead of the FBI catching terrorists they catch uploaders…Do your F*****G real job and keep us safe and forget about torrents WTF
Virate

This is ridiculous on a biblical scale. :P
pirateprideWW

Isn’t this sort of thing funny? If you’re one of the peasants and upset the powers that be by uploading some useless Oscar footage somewhere, the authorities are going to clamp down on you – and HARD. If you’re a well-connected and well-heeled billionaire, however, nothing will happen to you ever, or for decades. Just look into the recent cases of Bernie Madoff or Allen Stanford. Other interesting cases: all of the massive tax cheats in the new Obama administration (Daschle, Geithner, Rahm Emmanuel now… seems like the whole merry crew).

Welcome to the new America, guys, where crime pays like hell (as long as you’re rich and have the connections).
Freakfreak

> The charges are ‘Uploading a
> copyrighted work being prepared
> for commercial distribution’

What I absolutely don’t get is how these dickheads always try to twist the noncomercial filesharing into alleged commercial bootleg piracy.

Uploading to demonoid or TPB ‘for commercial profit’? ARE THEY NUTS?

Of cause they try to yield highter penalties but isn’t knowingly accusing someone of a wrong crime a crime in itself?!?

How comes the duty of the law enforcement to strive for truthful rule of law is lost for a ‘slam them’ tactics when accusations concern copyright?

As soon as multimillion copyright business comes into play it seems more like ‘anything goes – the grosser the better’ will be the slogan at work – who cares for law (!) enforcement and justice (!) anymore as long as you can make the police into your puppet.

THAT’S DISGUSTING AND A CALL UPON EVERY FREE CITIZEN TO SABOTAGE THIS INDUSTRY OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY GREED AS GOOD AS EVERYONE CAN!

ARM THE BATTLEMENTS!
BRING THE GUNS INTO POSITION!

Encrypt, conceal, confound! And we will always be a step ahead of you!

LET’S SHARE!!!

Resistance is futile! ;)
D to the icky !

The dude who uploaded “Slumdog Millionaire” should get more than 3 years.. that movie sucked ass.

But seriously: 3 years for uploading some copyrighted content? The end of the world must be near.
str8up

Personally I’m glad I haven’t given up my hard earned dollars for the crap they turn out of Hollywood anyway. If I find a movie or cd I like after I have listened to it or watched I have gone out and paid for the real deal. I have done this many times. If you buy before you try you are stuck with the crapola because if you open it you can’t return it. So I weed out the trash corporate Amerika tries to sell me. Just like test driving a car. I almost forgot I can’t afford a car either. Oh well, I’m better off walking and biking.
EdwardNorton

gonna get fucking caught uploading a terrible ass movie. ;\
Feruken

This is absolutely unbelievable. 3 years for uploading an all ready leaked movie? What is going on here.

What is your problem FBI? This isn’t going to solve anything. You just wasted money on this while our eeconomy is in disaster. Are you ppeople with this power even tthinking? This is just so….wow…
Dan

@Freakfreak #17: You misunderstood the law. The movie was in preparation for release (being prepared for commercial distribution). They weren’t accusing a BT site of commercial distribution.

3 years is the MAXIMUM they can receive. Very few people receive the max, especially first time offenders. If found guilty they will probably not see any jail time.
Ghostofchris

They make this sound threatening to us pirates that they are going to catch all of us, well in fact this makes me wanna pirate more.

God bless all pirates!
Freakfreak

@22:
Yes thanks, I tried to post a correction already
Freakfreak

that should look like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Entertainment_and_Copyright_Act

> shall be punished if the work is
> “made available on a computer
> network accessible to members of
> the public, if such person knew
> or should have known that the
> work was intended for commercial
> distribution.”

o.k. just to get it right:

They are charged according to the ART Act for making something available that is intended for commercial distribution by the copyright OWNER!

I’m sorry I got the details wrong from the blog-post in the first place!

Nevertheless this act is purely a ‘lex hollywood’ desinged by lobbyists to be passed by their best buddies and parliamentary sidekicks – so that “those in power” can gleefully join in with those in the world of glamour and fame.
And to rejoice in the club of those who have with mutual corruptness to be able to further parasitize on the simple people like workers and tax payers who have not – and don’t belong there anyway.

The elite club of the rich and famous, who, of cause, want to stay amongst themselfes and first of all of cause: keep their leverage over the lesser people in order to be able to still milk them for profit in the future too!

What the tax payers are for the self-serving politicians and wall street looters shall be the consumers for the media industry of cause!

Take what you can get from those you can bully into obedient subservience!

Works everywhere on the planet the same way!
The only difference is who happens to be ‘in power’ in any given society …
Freakfreak

… but it simply doesn’t appear here! WTF!
Freakfreak

I submitted it three times now – but something seems to block or filter it … (too long?, link inside?) wonder what causes it ..
Freakfreak

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Entertainment_and_Copyright_Act

> shall be punished if the work is
> “made available on a computer
> network accessible to members of
> the public, if such person knew
> or should have known that the
> work was intended for commercial
> distribution.”

o.k. just to get it right:

They are charged according to the ART Act for making something available that is intended for commercial distribution by the copyright OWNER!

I’m sorry I got the details wrong from the blog-post in the first place!

Nevertheless this act is purely a ‘lex hollywood’ desinged by lobbyists to be passed by their best buddies and parliamentary sidekicks – so that “those in power” can gleefully join in with those in the world of glamour and fame.
And to rejoice in the club of those who have with mutual corruptness to be able to further parasitize on the simple people like workers and tax payers who have not – and don’t belong there anyway.

The elite club of the rich and famous, who, of cause, want to stay amongst themselfes and first of all of cause: keep their leverage over the lesser people in order to be able to still milk them for profit in the future too!

What the tax payers are for the self-serving politicians and wall street looters shall be the consumers for the media industry of cause!

Take what you can get from those you can bully into obedient subservience!

Works everywhere on the planet the same way!
The only difference is who happens to be ‘in power’ in any given society …
ris

i dont know but every thing mpaa and
copyrightholders do to stop fileshearing only make more ppl doing it, why does it have that effect? I think i know why but what do you ppl think?
Screehie

Why are the penalties so low? These guys should recieve a much more adequate penalty than a measly 3 years: they should be getting 10 years and fined millions of dollars for their disgusting acts.

I hope they recieve the maximum possible penalty and the downloaders get caught and similarly fined!

Filthy criminals harming everyone in civil society.
http://www.10ch.org/ www.10ch.org

“Welcome to the Plutocracy/Corporatocracy, where money buys laws. The times of a ‘government of the people, by the people, for the people’ are long gone.”
The real reason why things like this happen is because people are being doormats to the industry. The U.S. is indeed democratic (scoring an 8.22 in The Economist democracy index), if people opposed these actions, then they would not happen, but alas, people DO NOT oppose any of this, and prefer to be doormats of the industry. People do not resist any of this, and thus let the industry do as they want. That is why these things happen.
jolly

look at their pot laws in America.
they are plain fuckin outrageous.
the corporations OWN the place.

pot smokers and ‘filesharers’ go to jail, get their lives ruined.

land of the free indeed.
overlooker

@ 17 Feb 21, 2009 at 14:04 by Freakfreak

You misunderstood. According to 17 USC 5 distribution of a film that is still in theaters and has not released to another form of media is a crime even if the distribution is free. If it’s out on DVD then it is no longer a crime if the amout copied (or uploaded in this case) has a retail value of less than $1000 for all items within a 180 day period. One could then argue that digital copies are valueless and thus uploading released material is not a crime in the United States. However, the law is clear on unreleased material – ditribute unreleased material and you’re boned.
mpaa propagandist

@28

how about death?

what an asshole
Raab

Saying “Thats a shitty movie, he deserves the jail time” was not funny the first time and isn’t funny the 15th time someone says it. STFU, this is not an article to make light of.
overlooker

@ 26 Feb 21, 2009 at 14:56 by Freakfreak

I wouldn’t worry about it. I think the best thing we can do when some one starts claiming downloading copyright material for free is a crime is that we inform them of the law and ask them to supply evidence of any downloader being convicted of a crime in the United States.

They can’t so I know it’s not illegal in Sweden. In Sweden (The Pirate Bay trial), they are trying to determine if a website is responsible for the illegal activities of it’s users even is it done off their site and without their knowledge. Sounds scarier than this to me.
chet

FBI hmmm tell me the usa is not imperialistic
carter carlow

if you are a movie producer married to an attractive woman and for some reason george clooney would come to your house for a visit you would think twice when he is leaving to ask him to give your wife a ride to the hair dresser.on the other hand you´re willing to give what you consider to be a multi million dollar product to some apprentice to have a partial copy made.
what kind of logic is that?
asd

@28

What are you talking about?
yates

It was so bad, I did not think anyone would want it.

IDBM says
It was painful., 19 June 2008
2/10

And to think they charge people 10$
to see this thing.

Of course they have to take care of the mpaa.
thissiteblowsnazismsucks

does this site censor? so much for our freedom of speech…
Anonymous

The land of the free…
if you think its bad now

google ACTA

look at wikipedia, page down to ISP
and look what they have planned.

The FBI will be at your door to inspect your ipod next. After the MPAA shuts down your broadband.
Tj

Well, maybe good people that upload screeners will now be frightened to do so :(
Kain Abel

hmmm, oki, i know in northern irland it cost somthing like 40k/year sterling to keep a man inside, im guessing it’ll be a lot less in america as they run the place likea business and use the inmates as slavelabour earning a good 10c/hour for builing a new city for the selfrightous ignorant masses that actually belive the world is black and white and that a criminal of any crime is by default SCUM (im lookin at you 28 ;)).
still, they have to prove the motivation was commercial, and that is america so baby they fucked, gl demonoid!
in chains

yes, we all will be mpaa/ifpi
slaves.

rage, rage, dont go softly.
Sam

@Maxexcloo

The laws aren’t harsh if you add up the time that EVRYONE on the internet watched the movie illegaly, then it becomes way more than 3 years.
Bill

Well, it just shows you what the MPAA do to just get you to “not upload copyrighted files”.

If people keep losing these companies money, they might just stop making movies altogether. Then we’ll all be happy.

MPAA are their for a reason, surely they are harsh, but you shouldn’t do it. Warnings are there, and people still surpass the rules just to give other people movies to watch.

Stupidity in my opinion.
math putz

@43

I dont see your logic.

Are you saying that that the public spent 3 years watching a 2.0 movie
(love guru)

I couldn’t watch it 3 minutes.
Rekrul

“If it’s out on DVD then it is no longer a crime if the amout copied (or uploaded in this case) has a retail value of less than $1000 for all items within a 180 day period.”

Of course, since the content industry has argued that figuring out how much actual distribution took place is impossible, they just make up a number that’s sure to put the total over $1000.
piratebarn

well…er…thank you Derek Hawthorne and Owen Moody. they were both good quality rips
Anonymous

@44

What the mpaa and the ifpi are truly afraid of is losing the stranglehold they have held since the 60′s.
If folks can make their own movies, music and litrature they will take them out of the catbird seat (a lucrative position)especially with copyrights running into the decades.

The MPAA was started by valenti a friend of reagans in the 60′s as a censoring tool (ratings) the ifpi was started in fascist Italy.

I could not make this stuff up.

When they take your ipod at the airport and lock you up that will be stupidity.
halocog

our government and laws are just fucking ridiculous .
PlasticLess

I would hope that on appeal a judge determines that watching ‘The Love Guru’ is in and of itself adequate punishment.
Anonymous

if they really want to catch the real guy,they should start from the inside as that’s where the leakage coming from.
but by doing harsh things like this, it will only encourage ppl to join up private trackers or to seek other means.
good luck to those who are searching for invites.
http://www.10ch.org/ www.10ch.org

@40 if you think its bad now
“google ACTA

look at wikipedia, page down to ISP
and look what they have planned.

The FBI will be at your door to inspect your ipod next. After the MPAA shuts down your broadband.”

These things will happen only if people let them happen.

Unfortunately, people are letting them happen.
I got you babe

Except for an occasional art theatre movie houses will not show a film without an MPAA rating. Hollywood hates these guys also. They and the ifpi and clearchannel determine what you see and hear and how much to pay,
little of which goes to the artist’s
involved.

A paradigm shift is necessary and a new business model designed. The efforts so far have been disappointing and not encouraged by the industry.
Anonymous

besides the absurdness of going to jail for stealing “the love guru” of all movies, why doesnt everyone here call into their congressperson and ask that their taxpayer dollars be spent either A.) fighting real victim based crime, or B.) helping to create a sustainable structure for our national economy.

spending dollars on victimless crime is not a good plan right now, unfortunately you congressperson does not know that, make your voice heard.
United Hackers Association

OR
if your the SON of warner brothers you can do whatever you want and get the perverbeal slap on wrist.

if i every got busted id make sure people remember that
Kain Abel

@ 53
i dont mean to alarm anyone almost all of these countries have connections with the NWO conspyiracy theory.
canada, mexico, singapore, UAE, NZ, australia, japan and ofcourse the comercial whore that is the USA.
im suprised china & russia are missing tbh.
Ghost

Well the important thing to remember is, this could have been prevented. There are services that hide your IP while using uTorrent. Use a proxy (or https) when uploading the torrent to the sites. At that point, the original uploader is safe from online decention (unless they do something stupid).

If you are a serious uploader of this stuff, please, for all of us, look into getting a VPS or renting some service.

Hell, even a seedbox for those would work well. Atleast then on the original upload it would be fast as well.
Anonymous

3 years in jail wtf is that. o well if the acta shows up there will be always be the option to transfer files via ssh tunnel.
Anonymous

Why everyone must thing that using a entertainment product that costs over ten million dollars to produce (Hundreds of millions in some cases) should be considered a civil right? It is illegal, and it should be illegal. For fuck sake, MPAA and IFPA are paid by the industry to do what they do.

I am a pirate. I am proud to be a pirate. I will keep on stealing until they get me. And I won’t bitch that it is “fascist” that I might be jailed for trying to get a non-essential service for free. It would be righteous if it were medicinal patent break or something that helps people stay Alive, but not watching “The Love Guru” or whatever other crap.

However, I live in Brazil, where no-one gives half a f*ck for the laws unless the media makes a circus around it.
man

Well one things for sure.. its not worth it to mess with pre releases.. shit.. im a pirate.. but I also have patience.
Anonymous

@Bill
“If people keep losing these companies money, they might just stop making movies altogether. Then we’ll all be happy.”

Yeah, just like how the boxoffice in Spain totally collapsed when filesharing was ruled legal there once and for all.

Oh, wait… No it didn’t.

The lost revenue that filesharing inflicts on the movie industry is truly infantesimal. The real culprits of lost revenue are celebs that demand multi-milliondollar paychecks, and the coke snorting studio execs who literally spend money like it grows on trees and ruitinely greenlight debacles like Gigli, The Love Guru, and M. Night Shyamalan films.

And then you have the overpriced movie theaters, where you have to pay an arm and a leg for the kind of stuff you could pick up at 7-11 for a buck. And afterwards you have the privelage of sitting through ads, previews, and being called a thief before the movie even starts, and of course the ushers spying on you with nightvision goggles to make sure you aren’t camming the movie, while completely missing any actual cammers in the audience. And do they tell the obnoxious morons talking out loud throughout the entire thing to shut up and stop kicking the seats? Hell no!

Filesharing can never cause lost revenue to the movie industry that even approaches the lost revenue that the movie industry causes to itself.
p$yCh0

I feel SOOOOO glad not to be an american citizen … Stupid laws and stupid people (not all ‘em) with a fascist goverment (always) … I wonder how long will take you to rebel … But it seems kind of difficult with all that propaganda in your head … The plutocracy is trying to make rich , richer and poor , poorer … Like the “artists” and the “movie stars” need more money , right … As it was said in SouthPark , “they are sentenced in a life of semi-luxury” … Piracy will become stronger now , it always does after a big hit … Remember napster ? Now we have .torrents and servers like rapidshare … Tomorrow … ? You will never stop us !!! Salute from Greece !
Sam

This is great! Thanks so much. Hope it will continue.

you can get interesting post about web usability and technology on my Web Usability Blog.
scrilla

“The MPAA was started by valenti a friend of reagans in the 60’s as a censoring tool (ratings) the ifpi was started in fascist Italy.

I could not make this stuff up.”

ROFLMAO!

First you make the false statement that the MPAA was started in the 60′s by Valenti, when a visit to their website will show that it was founded in 1922 – when Valenti was 1 year old. http://www.mpaa.org/AboutUs.asp

Then you say you couldn’t make it up. RoFLMAO!

Typical juvenile comment. I wounder if your the same commentor who said in another comment that the MPAA was started in the 80′s by Reagan.

Wouldn’t surprise me if an posing “intellectual” such as yourself got it so wrong twice (you know – the “thinker” that skin reads pages or outright makes things up by trotting out infomation that combines everything he dislikes so much).

Well done, you’ve proved your a mindless twat.
josh

o
Anonymous

Typical USA, im so fucking glad i don’t live in that stupid country
Overman

The guy who distributed “Love Guru”
should get the chair.
Anonymous

@71 Scrilla

from their site as well:

Former President of the MPAA Jack Valenti worked with the National Association of Theatre Owners to create a new and, at the time, revolutionary approach to fulfilling the movie industry?s self prescribed obligation to the parents of America. On November 1, 1968, NATO, MPAA and IFIDA announced the birth of the new voluntary film rating system of the motion picture industry.

I dont know where the 80′s thing came from. Valenti was a friend of reagans. And I will concede I am unclear as to when it was actually founded It grew out of Natl. assc
of theatre owners.
Wally

Yeah, the Love Guru sucked. I also think it’s funny that people feel entitled to stealing this stuff and then whine when people go to jail.

“But it was on the internet!”

Yes, the internet affords a certain amount of anonymity, but when you cost a company any large amount of money and they come after you… well suck it up.

Also, don’t lie to the FBI. It doesn’t seem to go over too well.
Anonymous

@71 scrilla

for the ifpi google ifpi origins and look at compriot.se

Your insults really dont improve your argument.
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Anonymous

I guess that means WAR…
Xander Delores

America once again turning into the Land of Opportunity, goto america, buy a camcorder, go record anything, copyright it and wait for some1 to pirate it, then make a killing sueing them :}
Anonymous

Five years for The Love Guru is way too much. No wonder the Swedes make fun of US copyright laws, they are ridiculous.
Anonymous

USA sucks…
Anonymous

Demonoid sucks as well they are always willing to provide “additional” infos about uploaders to the FBI
Anonymous

@Wally
“I also think it’s funny that people feel entitled to stealing this stuff and then whine when people go to jail.”

I think it’s funny that despite being too stupid to know the difference between copying and stealing, meathbreathing lobotomy patients like you attempt to lecture us anyway.

Even funnier, despite the fact that no court in the world agrees with you that filesharing = stealing, you still desperately hang on to the delusion that somehow it does.

Is it even possible to wake up from your fantasy, or are you so detatched from reality that your disorder is permanent?
ju

how can they waste money on something like this knowing that most of the world wont eat tonight? unbelievable
jolly

why did you edit my comment ie delete it?
ANSWER ME TORRENTFREAK!
jolly

XYOUXCUNTSX
bill

The FBI are chasing people for copyright infringement. Can’t they catch real criminals then?

@ 85, 86 here, have a lolly, son, and stop crying
Almo

That is pity
gonzo

wow…is that all the FBI does is crack down on movie pirates?…i mean what about cracking down on CNN News for showing cartoon planes on 9/11?

…the justice system iz a farce..
@41

maybe i’d happily tell my wife to go to the hairdresser with george clooney, so he’d look less like a fag and i’d get rid of her for an afternoon ?

more seriously, if you can’t think, just shut up. irrelevant analogies is the trademark of imbeciles.
MrSarcasm

BIG THANKS FBI, I feel much safer now. Good to see that all the masses of taxpayers’ money spent for SS every year are used reasonably.
BeckySlater

Wow, you would think torrentfreak would get this right. The people in question did not upload the movies to Demonoid, TPB, etc. They uploaded torrents to these sites. If the movies themselves were uploaded, I don’t thin the TPB trial would be going as well as it is.
anonymous

The only reason that guy got caught was because the screener had a watermark on it.
Fight_the_Tyranny

Clearly in america, sharing movies is worse than rape, murder or both. Live in a fascist country much?
FTP

@ 87
good point, i think it should be law that they first ammend the list of 9/11 hijackers (fact – 7 are alive and well) before they start with this schoolyard bs. if they really wanted to make a case, they might as well put up a fake torrent to some pre-released film and give ppl 25-life for ‘intent to download illegal material’ or some other bs charge, or push the boat out a lil further and entrap them for extra measuer
chota pum

putos, dediquense a los marcianos.

aguante san martin de san juan, yankies gays.
Juan Carlos Perez Loaso

Gracias Mirtha por toda la magia, te amo, siempre vas a estar en mi corazon…

Un beso para todos los pibes
The Swede

Thank God I don’t live in USA!
You guys have really wierd punishments, for everything!
3 years for sharing a file, 5 years for smoking a joint.

Sweden is Faaaar from perfect, but USA is TOTALLY F-ed up!
olimpo capo

gabito chupame el pito! Tragaleche, sos de la b!!!! jajajajaja
AN0NYM00SE

Seems like we all forget that we’re dealing with companies/corporations/groups/people that deal and invest in “fiction”. I can by a car, turn around and sell it. If I buy a movie/game/software and want to turn around to sell it, I can’t…it’s worthless! Man..If we all got paid for our work based on global importance….there sure would be ALOT of these nut cases out of work or at most getting minimum wage. If you like acting/producing/directing/scripting/writing…do us all a favour and do it as a hobby. Leave real world work to the big boys! I can’t beleive how important these people think they are, to have made the lending/copying/sharing of something (they claim to be proud of) punishable by law.

another thing….I’m canadian and don’t beleive in any form of god of what have you. The United-States of America claims to be a christian country….well I seem to recall the POPE (You’re all great voice of reason) saying that it is a sin to be overly wealthy….I don’t quite think he meant that to be applied to the poor or middle class of america….and for the FBI to represent the gross over wealthy. Seems to me that even the highest level of government is posessed or even encouraging sin!

Only one thing left to say…GO TO HELL!…because you will!

the end
chota pum

gonza puto, hacete del verdinegro refugiado

jajajaaa
THEKiD

HAHA serves u right for using failed sites like demonoid and pirate bay . assholes
uno de un tracker

bort pton
federikenson trolo
mstotheend goma
Kevin

Phew.. I feel so much safer now, thank you Mr. FBI man. These are very dangerous people. Many lives were saved here by you brave men of the FBI.
olimpo capo

@gabito: sobame el canelon pecho frio.
yawho

if they wanna stop sharring keep there movies for there own personal use only, why pay for a movie when you still wont get to own it ? its never your movie doesnt matter what, its prohibited to share it with friends in anyway, not allowed to show to many people at once even in your own home , screw dictatorship!!! and good luck to the 2, hope it all goes your way
Anon

@33

woah…looks like my troll-o-meter crashed and burned
Barland

Well that’s what you get to live in usa…

way to go uncle sam !

usa! fearing and manipulating the world since 1776
anonymous

That’s why I don’t download movies. the MPAA watches those, I stick to TV shows and that’s all.
Bonkers

We’re all f*cked.

The Madoff asshole who steals BILLIONS is sitting at home in his penthouse… These other poor saps are screwed. Not only for now, and to do some time, but the rest of their lives.

People have bought into this ‘freedom’ thing, flying flags on their cars, etc… It is such a crock o’ shit.

More so more than ever we’ll all be kicked around and treated like dust bunnies.
Conspiracy Crazies

It’s amazing how people will read a website and take it as gospel truth. take a look at this for a reasoned analysis.

http://www.conspiracyscience.com/articles/911/

Amazing how people will believe kooks claiming news services inserted planes into pictures and used special effects (when surely if the US gubmint staged 911 it would be a huge story … and there’s the small matter of tens of thousands of witnesses and countless other obstacles to reality. So what – the government paid off every witness in NY at that time?)

Gimme a break.
Anonymous

Oh great, the FBI is tracking down measly copywright infringes..while real terrorist roam free…nice..and you wonder why the system is so fucked up?
none

agreed, while theft is naughty unless he killed or injured the person he stole it from or broke into the building to get it then a custodial sentence is a bit too much imo, a big fat fine and some comunity service sounds about fair
Anonymous

Oh great, the FBI is tracking down measly copywright infringes..while real terrorist roam free…nice..you have to question why the system is so messed up?
Seba

¿Alguien quiere pensar en los niños?
noname

No lo metan, es Giordano!
El Cholo Ciano

El problema es que estos pibes fuman mucha droga, maconia, paco, hugo y luis y se ponen a bajar pelotudeces con las computadoras entonces te persiguen por esto de la internet y viene el fbi y te caga a trompadas … no se jueguen la vida asi chicos, vamoos, jueguen a la pelota…

les dejo un beso para todos…

ah y voto para norman brisky como mejor actor
Seba

FBI: catch me if you can
BTArg
??

????
guoba

horrible~
chota pum

gonza, decile a tu hermana q deje de perseguirme.

no quiero cojer mas con ella, eso no lo entiende parece.

la explicacion esta en q a todos los aurinegros y aurinegras les cabe el pijaso verdinegro.

jaasjadjahwdjjawjdjajajjajaja

aajajhdkhaqkdjhajajajaja
sohail20

wow man!
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uh…

…if you say the laws are so harsh, and that our rights have been tampered with… THEN WHY DON’T YOU DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!! How about Helping these guys out and stand up against those Federal assholes!
ken adams

Hey enigmax, do you think you could find out how and where they uploaded the movies and point out what they did wrong.

Then maybe the rest of us could learn from their mistakes.

For example, how does someone like axxo not get caught?
God 2.0

Hey, this comes from the same mindset who bicker of funding schools and Energy Independence, but all orgasm over funding M1A2 Main Battle Tanks and killing Iraqi Children “as the cost to fight Terrorism” when Iraq had NOTHING to do with 9/11.

I would argue “government of the people, by the people, for the people” has been just a figment in American’s imagination. Remember, you have to run that by the corporate sponsor before we can air it…. etc.
Hm

Nice way to waste your resources.
charlie

There’s too much people in the world sharing files for them to catch all of them. It’s a futile action. Someday you’ll have to change your laws according to the people’s beliefs. That’s democracy.
Hulk22

All they did was put movies out. Jail time for sharing movies? The intertainment industry really does not understand that they are going after the people who buy their stuff.
Anonymous

>>Moody is charged with uploading the hit movie “Slumdog Millionaire” to The Pirate Bay.

how can they track or prove this?
digdug

Only insomniacs would see those movies! Benjamin Button And Australia will knock you out into a coma.
banghard

Holy cheese and crakers people can steel billions in peoples life savings from tax payers. Not go to jail cause they stold billions.but for uploading a movie you get 3 years.more wasted tax dollars…How sad America.the state of kansas is broke but fbi spends money on uploaded shitty movies.WoW
LOL

only in america
Anonymous

I love the anti-american hate around here

w/o america your countries would all have a nazi flag waving

try to bitch about stuff then scrubs

VIVA LA GEORGE BUSH
Anton

Porter Ranch is close to me
Squeaky

Here in Amerikkka they will be shutting down libraries next. FBI will raid and confiscate every book, movie and music they have been loaning out. Librarians will be getting fines, up too 250,000 and 6 months in jails. Raids are to take place durning the summer months of 09.
Anonymous

I’m not American, but I’ll be the first to say “THANK YOU” to the USA for saving all our asses during WW2. You guys rock!!
Anonymous

Getting busted for uploading best picture of the year, Slumdog Millionaire: 3 years in prison as a ‘martyr’ for the cause

Getting busted for uploading one of the worst movies of the year, The Love Guru: 3 years asking “Why the hell did I risk jail over such a worthless movie!”
shrub hater

@133

get real, bush was the worst disaster since 9/11 for this country and its people. Your a moron.
BagelxJames

Lol, If I had the money id bail them out!!!
chota pum

yankies gays
james

2 down several millions to go

Good effort boys
John Doe

So Bernie Madoff can steal $53 billion dollars, and probably never be punished, whereas somebody copied the love guru and faces jail time?

That is sick.
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Thor

@142 J Doe

What seems to be important is not what you steal but whom you steal it from.

MPAA years

Public none
overlooker

@71 Feb 21, 2009 at 18:41 by scrilla

“The MPAA’s film ratings were instituted on November 1, 1968, in response to religiously-motivated complaints about the sexual, violent, profane, and impudent content of American cinema, after the MPAA’s 1966 revision of the Production Code.”

It is apparent that the original poster meant That Valenti was instrumental in forming the MPAA rating system. So whose the twat now?
Anonymous

They deserved to be jailed. If they are dumb enough to upload those movies to a public tracker and seed using their home .us IP… jail them.

Use a seedbox in another country! If you have something on your home PC that you must upload, FTP it to your box, then upload it from there!

Even better, find a box to share with someone then your name won’t even be on the box. RDC from one box into another into another.

Learn to protect yourselves or stear clear of the world of piracy!
meh

Button was… ok but going to jail for Australia and The Love Guru??? You deserve to toss some salad for that.
Nuke

Fuck FBI !
Anonymous

TPB=Fail.
Anonymous

really great, funny reading y’all! thanks. here’s to all pirates….cheers!
satanicslave

fbi stands for….

fucking
brainless
idiots

and they arrest guys for uploading films maybe they should look in there own back yard ..they have sold guns /drugs/and other goodies to some right shady people all over the world for oil rights among other things ..

all boils down to them being dickless little prats …
smash the state …

peace
Ligar

Screehie, wow, why do people always revert to this “us vs them” mentality? how is society ruined by a preview of a movie?
Phillyblonds

fucking FBI, someone should stop this madness, 3 years ? wtf is wrong with your US laws

putting guys upploading a damn movie with murderers and killers and theifs ,

fUCK THAT SHIT,

HEIL SWEDEN
johnyM

THE FBI ARE A FREAKING PUBLIC SERVICE payed with our tax dollars. I mean the FBI is wasting time with this BS when they could be putting our HARD EARNED tax dollars to good use. They couldve arrested real crimanals and killers but NO!!! probably over millions of dollars were spent on this stupid case to IMPRESS us. FBI are just TOO DICKLESS to fix any real problems so the best they can do is arrest these guys.
hypocrite

“If i came to your job/
And Took your corn-on-the-cob/
and left a couple kernels on it that would be alright with you?

Hell Naaa/
Exact-a-mundo”

-ANDRE 3000

do any of you guys depend on the movie/TV business to pay your rent and feed yourself?

I’m so sick of people using illogical arguments rooted in david vs goliath bullshit.

If you steal a movie, tv show or song it’s theft. How could it not be? I hope most of u are too smart to actually believe that shit…If you don’t ask one of the thousands of people who lost their jobs in the music industry.

Next, you idiots suprised the FBI cares about millions of dollars being stolen everyday…Can I ask, If someone broke into your place of business everynight and stole all your products, and it happened at every location nationwide, everysingle night, THEN would that qualify as an “FBI” worthy case? I hope ur too smart to believe your own bullshit…

What i hear is of bunch of whiney self absorbed people who feel they are “owed” everything in life. (you know the kinda thing you try to teach your kids not to be like) I used too hate old people who talked to me like that but my generation is a bunch of ingrateful babies… I mean to be upset at people you steal from for caring that you stole???????

Next stupid argument…hollywood and the MPAA are so evil ….question….
If someone robs a bank, would the fact that we all hate banks now make it legal for them. Because that’s pretty much all the “evil hollywood/mpaa” argument is. Oh god i can’t believe the MPAA is trying to stop the loss of millions of dollars? How dare they!!! are u guys serious? do you have jobs? If someone broke into your office and stole everything out of your desk would you report it?

HYPOCRITICAL JUSTIFICATION OF THEFT…

People pay money to produce the tv, movies and music. Although music can be made and recorded for extremely low cost. I’d love to hear how you are going to shoot Dark Knight or one episode of any show in your garage? The lighting a

I’m confused how my entire generation can feel so “owed” free material that costs others money and hardwork.

I know its cool to think everything should be free and I’m sure I’ll be blown away by the wit my post is met with via anonymous responses. But most of you wouldn’t steal from a store and trying to call what happens on torrent sites anything else but theft is a bunch of symantical bullshit….

take your argument to it’s logical conclusion…Hollywood maybe an easy target, but ireally it’s just another name for an industry that needs financhial incentives to work. You steal everything, then we stop making it. what would you do if there was no tv or movies? Be careful or you might have to get a life instead of uploading tv shows all night and writing uneducated ingrateful rants about that which you barely understand…

When you steal movies, you aren’t making some ANTI MPAA FUCK hollywood statemtent.

Most of you are too smart to believe that, yet it’s so easy you still don’t stop to think about people like me who make very little money in the industry that you are putting out of a job.
satanicslave reads good

the FBI sells oil rights… for guns and drugs….wow if that isn’t brilliantly ignorant I don’t know what is?

By FBI I think you meant CIA. Although you’d still be wrong, especially in your highly simplified statement of an extremely complex topic you probably know nothing about.

Please don’t let your paranoia confuse you about what the FBI does versus the CIA. HINT: It’s 2 COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THINGS…

it’s really cute to see you try to think…Next time try reading a little of anything before you share your insights

thanks satanicslave, I needed a good laugh….

Tell me something are you an ignorant foreigner or just a fat kid on a computer who hates himself for being obeses, lonely and not very smart ….or both?
It’s not stealing b/c i do it at home….

“If i came to your job/
And Took your corn-on-the-cob/
and left a couple kernels on it that would be alright with you?

Hell Naaa/
Exact-a-mundo”

-ANDRE 3000

do any of you guys depend on the movie/TV business to pay your rent and feed yourself?

I’m so sick of people using illogical arguments rooted in david vs goliath BS.

If you steal a movie, tv show or song it’s theft. How could it not be? I hope most of u are too smart to actually believe that…

If you don’t ask one of the thousands of people who lost their jobs in the music industry.

Next, you idiots suprised the FBI cares about millions of dollars being stolen everyday…Can I ask, If someone broke into your place of business everynight and stole all your products, and it happened at every location nationwide, everysingle night, THEN would that qualify as an “FBI” worthy case? Again, I hope ur too smart to believe your own BS…

What i hear is of bunch of whiney self absorbed people who feel they are “owed” everything in life. (you know the kinda thing you try to teach your kids not to be like) I used too hate old people who talked to me like that but my generation is a bunch of in-grateful babies… I mean to be upset at people you steal from for caring that you stole???????

Next stupid argument…hollywood and the MPAA are so evil.
If someone robs a bank, would the fact that we all hate banks now make it legal for them. Because that’s pretty much all the “evil hollywood/mpaa” argument is. Oh god i can’t believe the MPAA is trying to stop the loss of millions of dollars? How dare they!!! are u guys serious? do you have jobs? If someone broke into your office and stole everything out of your desk would you report it? would you hope the police looked into it? Now imagine that times a million…I think the mpaa kinda has a right to be pissed or is that ridiculous to think that you should have to pay for something people paid to make and sell?

HYPOCRITICAL JUSTIFICATION OF THEFT…

People pay money to produce the tv, movies and music. Although music can be made and recorded for extremely low cost. I’d love to hear how you are going to shoot Dark Knight or one episode of any show in your garage? The lighting alone costs a couple hundred grand…have fun…i think youtube already proved this point though

I’m confused how my entire generation can feel so “owed” free material that costs others money and hardwork.

I know its cool to think everything should be free and I’m sure I’ll be blown away by the wit my post is met with via anonymous responses. But most of you wouldn’t steal from a store and trying to call what happens on torrent sites anything else but theft is a bunch of symantical BS….

take your argument to it’s logical conclusion…Hollywood maybe an easy target, but ireally it’s just another name for an industry that needs financhial incentives to work. You steal everything, then we stop making it. what would you do if there was no tv or movies? Be careful or you might have to get a life instead of uploading tv shows all night and writing uneducated ingrateful rants about that which you barely understand…

When you steal movies, you aren’t making some ANTI MPAA F-Hollywood statemtent.

Most of you are too smart to believe that, yet it’s so easy you still don’t stop to think about people like me who make very little money in the industry that you are putting out of a job.
ibz

if they are stupid enough to upload a movie wihtout taking adequate measures to be anonymous and hide their ip addresses using the tongs of free programs out there…they deserve to go to jail.morons.and most probably they will be realease in a year or so.
Tim

3 years for movie copying when asked to by his employer? Entrapment.

7 years for murder minus 30% for good time in CA. Hmmm
Ray

Billions lost in sales, which reduce our country’s ability to collect taxes, thus leading to economic disaster… 3 years is small, they should get 10 years and be made examples off. They stole a a multi-million dollar production they did not own and post it on a file sharing network, so bootleggers can sell it at the nearest Wal-Mart, effecting millions in taxable revenue… you want America to prosper, then protect it intellectual property (one of our most valuable assets as a country), not promote its illegal use… wizen up, consequence of losing billions in taxable dollars will only make our economic situation worse not better….
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EPIC WINNING LOL

man the love guru was a shitty movie anyway why would he even want to watch it.
Anonymous

Apparently our government’s more interested in tracking down a man in a small town in Minnesota, population, a little over 5400, over downloading NCIS Season 3, which the man pulled down several months ago, and wasn’t even seeding any longer… when our government should be more concerned with wiping Osama bin Laden off the face of the Earth. They can find this one man in this small town in Minnesota, and find something he pulled off BitTorrent MONTHS ago, that he’s not even SEEDING any longer, which isn’t even physically ON his computer any more… but they can’t find Osama bin Laden? And what about NCIS Season 1 or 2, or all the other things this same man pulled down? Why the focus on NCIS Season 3? Is the government perhaps too stupid to see the rest?

In at least some states, you can get out in public, run around stark naked, even masturbate or have sex in public while nude, and face LESS severe penalties than you face by torrenting a single music CD, movie, audio book or software program. Yet another example of where our government’s priorities lie… in the wrong place.
pippone

l’fbi dovrebbe pensare a rispettare i diritti base dell’essere umano invece di fare ste cavolate

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