Firefox Add-on ‘Undoes’ U.S. Government Domain Seizures

The seizure of file-sharing related domain names by the US Government hasn’t been as effective as the entertainment industries had hoped since many of them simply continued their operations under new domains. To make these type of domain transitions go more smoothly, an anonymous group has coded a simple Firefox add-on that automatically redirects users to these new homes.

mafiaafire The seizures of file-sharing related domain names by the US Government in recent months have stirred up a lot of controversy. Despite heavy critique from various sides, the end is not yet in sight.

ICE director John Morton confirmed last week that the seizures will continue in the coming years. But at the same time the authorities amp up their anti-piracy efforts, those in opposition are already coming up with ways to bypass them.

One of these initiatives is the “MAFIAA Fire” add-on for Firefox that was officially published today. The plugin, which will support the Chrome browser at a later stage too, maintains a list of all the domains that ICE (hence the fire) has seized and redirects their users to an alternative domain if the sites in question have set one up.

To start the ball rolling the add-on’s developers have redirected some of the seized sites for which they know the alternate domains, such as Torrent-Finder.com and Rojadirecta.com. In addition, they are offering webmasters the option to register an alternate domain in anticipation of an eventual domain seizure. These domains will then be verified and the site owners can “activate” them in case they’re needed.

TorrentFreak got in touch with the MAFIAA Fire developer, who told us that this is just the beginning. Inspired by a quote from John Gilmore who once said “the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it,” they are determined to retaliate against these and other censorship attacks.

“This is just a start, now that we have opened this can of worms people can expect many add-ons, extensions and plug-ins from us,” TorrentFreak was told. “Our goal is to reverse governments attempts to censor the Internet, and nearly anything the anti-piracy people put up to protect their dinosaur business models.”

“Imagine the old game of whack-a-mole, now imagine playing on multiple machines all around you at the same time.”

“We really are tired of the corruption at the highest levels of government by these people. Enough is enough. There is a time to moan and there is a time to take action – and taking action has been long overdue,” the MAFIAA Fire developer said.

According to the add-on developer, something has to be done to stop the Internet from falling under the control of the entertainment industries or other hidden agendas. This add-on is a small step, but a start according to him.

“Governments around the world are either censoring for the entertainment companies never ending woes, or using that as an excuse to slowly get more control over the internet for their own agendas – and trampling over our rights in the process.”

“Our right to privacy should outweigh any outdated business model, unfortunately average Joe cannot afford a $10,000 plate dinner to speak to their representatives and his voice is drowned out by the vultures who have been doing this for decades,” he concluded.

Aside from redirecting seized domains, the MAFIAA Fire developer is also planning something for the websites of the various anti-piracy agencies worldwide. For this project, he is encouraging people to send in the domains of anti-piracy sites around the world, and more specifically, the country they’re operating from.

The MAFIAA Fire add-on can be downloaded from Mozilla and the official website, which also features a FAQ for those who want to know all the juicy details. The add-on code itself will be open source and released to the public in a few days.

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I hope will be extension to Chrome.
- MAFIAAFire
  
  Here ya go:
  http://mafiaafire.com/wall-of-text.php#j
  - http://disqus.com/ Rob8urcakes
    
    Heheheheheh wtf?
    At very bottom of that ^ page, “Copyright ©2011 MAFIAAFire.com – No animals were harmed in the making of this site.”
    
    And registered with the copywrong office too = heheheheheh, BRILLIANT guys :)
    A HUGE *thumbsup
    
    And many, many thanks too – hope you get the donations in to keep us all updated and to dev for other browsers too. This beauty HAS to go viral over all platforms ASAP – especially the Evil Empire’s Internet Explorer lol.
  - http://disqus.com/ Rob8urcakes
    
    Heheheheheh wtf?
    At very bottom of that ^ page, “Copyright ©2011 MAFIAAFire.com – No animals were harmed in the making of this site.”
    
    And registered with the copywrong office too = heheheheheh, BRILLIANT guys :)
    A HUGE *thumbsup
    
    And many, many thanks too – hope you get the donations in to keep us all updated and to dev for other browsers too. This beauty HAS to go viral over all platforms ASAP – especially the Evil Empire’s Internet Explorer lol.
  - Andy
    
    Signed up for the Chrome release notification. Hope it will be released soon cuz unfortunately I don’t use crap browsers like Firefox :D
    - mormon
      
      sorry but since when chrome can run on something less powerful than HP DL980?
    - http://otester.myopenid.com/ PiRat
      
      If you have a shit computer then stick with FF.
    - mormon
      
      protip: no matter how shit or awesome your PC is, in Firefox you can have 2x as many tabs opened as in Chrome without having lags. 400+ open tabs here, and no noticeable struttering.
- Anonymous
  
  bad thing is, mozilla probably won’t allow it on their site much longer, and google – hah! The RIAA/MPAA will bitch smack them so hard their ears will ring. Bookmark http://mafiaafire.com/
  
  and a word to mafiaafire, might want to look into other tld’s as demonstrated .COM is NOT safe!
  - MAFIAAFire
    
    That’s the point. We _want_ them to try to seize our domain and show the world what hypocrites they are.
    We do not link to copyrighted material, and no malware on our site either.
    Now what’s their excuse for taking someone’s domain?
    
    We got the .com specifically after looking at COICO
    - Anonymous
      
      good point to make, but I don’t think you understand how retarded the US’s government is. And you’ve obviously mistaken them for a government that cares how their actions are viewed.
      Here’s a sample of the reason they’ll give when they take your domain:
      
      The domain was seized because the owner knowing distributed software to circumvent blocks put into place to negate piracy on these particular domains. And furthermore this amounts to nothing more than aiding illegal unlicensed distribution of copyrighted materials.
      
      Although we all know the real reason will be “MAFIAA paid us to do it, so we did.”
    - Whatever
      
      Keep your reserve domain ready….
      
      Too bad you’re not called the “Yes men” otherwise might get some media attention.
    - http://www.facebook.com/AM2201 Vincent Santo
      
      oh wow i completely forgot about them! thank you for reminding me of them again. It still isnt too late to contact them. we should shoot them a few emails http://theyesmen.org/contactpage
    - Joe_Biden
      
      I <3 you for creating a plugin like this XD
  - http://twitter.com/ezee ezee
    
    > bad thing is, mozilla probably won’t allow it on their site much longer,
    
    http://mafiaafire.com/new_version_subscribe.php
    
    MF is willing to email you everytime there is a new version.
    - Anonymous
      
      I would question if Mozilla would remove this add-on.
      
      It does not break the law. It does not advertise these sites when it only links to what people already seek. So the only reason to remove it would be to play ICE’s bitch and to support unconstitutional theft and censorship. Mozilla is anti-censorship.
      
      Not a happy day in the DHS when all their work has been undone. If anything they have made these domains more popular.
    - Joe_Biden
      
      Mozilla devs don’t give a crap about copywrong trolls and parasites. I am sure they mind having this addon on their site. Afterall, they stand for open source projects.
    - Joe_Biden
      
      Mozilla devs don’t give a crap about copywrong trolls and parasites. I am sure they mind having this addon on their site. Afterall, they stand for open source projects.
  - http://www.zirro.se Zirro
    
    Unless they come under enormous pressure, Mozilla aren’t likely to remove it. They’re fighting for open source and it’s values, which has connections to the filesharing community. Google is harder to know about, though.
  - http://www.zirro.se Zirro
    
    Unless they come under enormous pressure, Mozilla aren’t likely to remove it. They’re fighting for open source and it’s values, which has connections to the filesharing community. Google is harder to know about, though.
- MaxxOri
  
  Don’t use Chrome and the problem goes away.
  - Andy
    
    Chrome is a far superior browser than Firefox. No way I am gonna stop using Chrome for any damn addon/plugin. It will be good if MAFIAAfire can come up with a Chrome extension but I can live without it if they dont.
    - Trasherbasher
      
      Let’s keep the browser wars out of this discussion, shall we?:)
    - http://crashsuit.blogspot.com crashsuit
      
      Yeah. Just let people use Chrome, or some other browser that isn’t as good, and lay off already.
  - Andy
    
    Chrome is a far superior browser than Firefox. No way I am gonna stop using Chrome for any damn addon/plugin. It will be good if MAFIAAfire can come up with a Chrome extension but I can live without it if they dont.
bawlz

this is a bit easier than changing out all my bookmarks, thumbs up.
Anonymous

It really was just a matter of time. I personally prefer the hosts file method so it works across all my browsers…
MAFIAAFire

Actually, TF is not giving you guys the full story.

And the reason is…Ernesto!

The truth is, Ernesto was a huge help from the time we came to him with our idea. He gave us valuable input as the end user, we trusted him with the alpha/beta code and he gave us feedback and suggestions that helped us along to the final product you see today.

But most of all, he was most encouraging. Although we have never seen him face to face; he is our friend – and thats why we never considered any other site to break this news. TF just had to have the exclusive or it wouldn’t be right.

Like I said on top, TF is not giving you the full story and the reason is Ernesto: The dude is too modest :)
- anon
  
  If COICA passes, you will be shut down or rendered useless overnight. COICA allows for rapid injunctions against new domain names once the original version has been found violating. Either they will use your list to generate new blocks (making their job easier), or they will take you down for contributory infringement.
  
  Have fun til then.
  - Finh
    
    in which case we switch to connecting by IP….and you lose again
    - http://twitter.com/ezee ezee
      
      There really is nothing stopping this MF system to redirect to an IP address instead of a domain.
    - http://twitter.com/ezee ezee
      
      There really is nothing stopping this MF system to redirect to an IP address instead of a domain.
  - MAFIAAFire
    
    Imagine if most of the p2p sites encourage their visitors to download our plug-in… coico would be almost useless and if it still passes: can someone say dinosaurs?
    
    COICO is also a US law, they cannot take secondary domains if it does not fall on .com/net/org
    
    To take away your “concerns”, don’t worry: we are prepared. Our plug-in will work even without our .COM domain, and will infact redirect anyone who downloads our plugin to the correct site… including MAFIAAFire.
    - anon
      
      I respect your dedication and I thank you for your hard work. It’s one thing when you try to piss of copyright holders. But now that you are working to piss off the US Department of Justice, I am certain you will be doing all of those who want stricter laws/enforcement a great service.
      
      As I said, COICA already allows for rapid blocks on secondary domain names once the primary one has been taken out. If you provide and maintain a central list, you’re just making that job easier.
    - MAFIAAFire
      
      When you have the US govt inviting the industry for private talks and ignoring the rights groups, then having the vice president calling copyright infringement “stealing” I think it’s safe to say that the govt and “copyright holders” are pretty much the same goons.
      
      As for our list of redirects, they mostly redirect to non-US domains, something that the US knows of and can’t do * about.
      
      As for stricter laws/enforcement: whatever we do or dont do will not make their plans disappear, if it’s not piracy its “terrorism” or think of the children.
      Have those WMDs been found yet?
      
      We do have a game plan and I invite the paid goons at ICE to go ahead and do what they have to do ;)
    - anon
      
      “As for our list of redirects, they mostly redirect to non-US domains, something that the US knows of and can’t do * about.”
      
      The US plans to block/blacklist foreign domains for piracy. The only way to get around it would be to redirect to IP addresses, but if a website is at a static IP, there is no reason it can’t be blocked by IP as well.
    - http://twitter.com/ezee ezee
      
      Read the FAQ, it says MF is not only prepared to counter such a blocklist it specifically mentions the upcoming / up-thinking laws in the UK and the Dutch.
      
      Whack a mole version 9001 :D
      
      If a website gets blacklisted, since the add on gets its list on every restart its useless.
      
      From the faq:
      My list is faster than your list.
    - JoTheBird
      
      GUYS, DON’T FEED THE TROLL, YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER:
      
      “In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into a desired emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.”
      
      JUST DON’T FEED IT, OK? Discussing with a troll puts you on the same level and is a complete waste of time.
      Trolls don’t have a life and spend their whole day doing this on several blogs and forums, the best reply to a troll is : Silence.
    - Anonymous
      
      “Have those WMDs been found yet?”
      
      I hope not – They’re under my bed!
    - Anonymous
      
      Is it not about time you washed those socks?
    - gp
      
      It’s on the internet. You can download a copy
    - Anon
      
      I love this. Bradley Manning is in solitary and TorrentFreak is hosting a public middle finger callout of ICE and the US Department of Justice. And we all have front row seats. It really doesn’t get much better than this.
    - Anonymous
      
      “they cannot take secondary domains if it does not fall on .com/net/org”
      
      I believe that they can take any domain, if it’s registered via a US-based registrar.
    - Any Moose
      
      Contrary to wishful thinking, the US does not own the internet, nor will they ever. Even if they could put up a wall that was successful at blocking domains and IP’s, all it would do is prevent their own citizens from connecting to those sites. It wouldn’t affect the rest of the world, which would merrily go on as if nothing had happened. It is all moot though as walls don’t really work, especially when their purpose is to act a a censor. Just look at China if you want an example.
    - http://profiles.google.com/dnte1020 D G
      
      Maybe after awhile or so. You would be surprised at how much traffic passes through servers physically located in the U.S.
    - Anonymous
      
      “they cannot take secondary domains if it does not fall on .com/net/org”
      
      I believe that they can take any domain, if it’s registered via a US-based registrar.
  - Ryzzo
    
    Reading… You’re doinitwrong
    
    They can’t seize domains that the US doesn’t own, hence sites moving to internationally controlled domains. All COICA will do is decrease the number of US listed domain names and take revenue from US companies hosting them.
    
    kthnxby
    - Anonymous
      
      “They can’t seize domains that the US doesn’t own, hence sites moving to internationally controlled domains.”
      
      I believe that they can if they are registered with/by/via a US-based registrar.
    - Ryzzo
      
      Maybe I used the wrong terminology, but what I was trying to say is that the only thing that COICA is going to accomplish is that less websites will be registered through US based companies on US owned TLD’s. The point is that in failing to protect the copyright monopoly they are simply taking money out of the hands of the US economy on the long term. People won’t stand for censorship.
      
      The domain seizures were total failures anyway. They got rid of a couple counterfeiters, increased the popularity of some torrent and streaming sites that are STILL up and running with all the free publicity, and accused 82k legitimate websites of being affiliated with child pornography. ICE and COICA are a joke!
  - Luke
    
    COICA will not pass. Otherwise, those idiots better be looking for other jobs once they’re up for reelection.
    - Anon
      
      So delusional. For every pirate who needs COICA to be repealed there will be 1000 regular internet users who vote and have no interest in any of this. You flatter yourself. lol
    - Evil
      
      GUYS, DON’T FEED THE TROLL, YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER:
      
      “In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into a desired emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.”
    - Evil
      
      GUYS, DON’T FEED THE TROLL, YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER:
      
      “In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into a desired emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.”
  - JoTheBird
    
    GUYS, DON’T FEED THE TROLL, YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER:
    
    “In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into a desired emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.”
    
    JUST DON’T FEED IT, OK? Discussing with a troll puts you on the same level and is a complete waste of time.
    Trolls don’t have a life and spend their whole day doing this on several blogs and forums, the best reply to a troll is : Silence.
- http://www.peerpress.net kosmonautbruce
  
  Ernesto is a cool dude, I agree! ;) Great article, very interesting initiative, look forward to seeing the Chrome version as well.
guest

this is so awesome
- JoThe Bird
  
  >Indeed
guest

this is so awesome
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Dr_Faustus

Personally, I think ICE is just doing it to look busy and provide some accountability for the tax dollars they’re uhm, ‘spending’. Keep in mind they’re only going after the little guys that 99% of us never heard of before or used, this doesn’t affect the internet’s bottom line at the end of the day – That speech is meant to be free. The internet scares the living shit out of these people. But either everything is ok or nothing is, and those who try to capitalize on saying “You will do what we tell you to online” always end up losing in the end. There really are no ‘rules’ or ‘legalities’ on the internet as always a way around everything and its a neverending cat and mouse game. Sure, ICE (who is supposed to protect the borders against tururists) might have seized the domain, but what does that really do? People are saying its setting a precedent for when they try to go after the big fish, but none of these orders were ever put to trial or stood in front of a judge. At the risk of repeating myself, this means nothing to the internet at large who will simply move on and forget.

Its not about the lack of due process to me so much as more about the money. The part that upsets me the most is tax dollars are being thrown in the toilet to make this all happen. They’re using the middle-class’s money – Upper and Lower dont pay much taxes, if any – to protect hollywood’s next 3d movie endeavor or some music executive’s privilege of buying a new boat every 5 years while most of us can barely pay the fuckin bills.

If you want to look at every pointless, inefficient strategy thought up by the criminals in suits, just follow the money. TSA is a good place to start, there’s a new documentary that just came out about them. Social Security is another good one to read into, the biggest pyramid scheme that will taking in far less money then it will be dishing out when the baby boomers retire. It started as a way to buy votes, none of those politicians are even around anymore though. Sorry to get off-topic, but the motivation is always financial..Even political motives are still financial.
http://www.facebook.com/eric.boehm Jack Murdock

Mafiaa fire,
The so called dinosaur business model is the only one that offers the artist compensation for their work and motivates artists to innovate. Your free things business model is not even close to sustainable as it only takes only the user into consideration. There is nothing outdated about paying for things you enjoy.

Calling it censorship is nothing more than semantics. The sites they seize are not lawful by any means. By that logic, you might as well label all law enforcement as censorship, since they have been involved in the seizure other things.. like you know drugs, illegally possessed weapons and things lke that.
- MAFIAAFire
  
  > The sites they seize are not lawful by any means.
  Rojadirecta was found to be legal (in the highest courts of law)… twice.
  
  Semantics?
  - Lulz
    
    Funny Jack replied to a comment after this one but not this one. What a douche.
    - Ugly American
      
      That’s because “Jack Murdock” (Reasoned Mind) is a MAFIAA troll who would like us to believe the following idiocy: “The so called dinosaur business model is the only one that offers the artist compensation for their work and motivates artists to innovate.” The only one, he says – wow, how much FAIL can one troll fit into a single sentence. It boggles the (unreasoned) mind… =)))
- CharlieSheen
  
  “The so called dinosaur business model is the only one that offers the artist compensation for their work and motivates artists to innovate.”
  Is there ANY proof to back this “theory” up? As far as I know all piracy does is increase fan base and ticket prices where the artist truly make their profit, NOT from the labels that “own” their work.
  - http://www.facebook.com/eric.boehm Jack Murdock
    
    The proof is in something called a moral principle. If you are enjoying someone’s work, it’s only right that you give something back to them. Otherwise, you are presuming that said work grows on trees and someone didn’t invest weeks of their time and lots of money in it.
    - Ryzzo
      
      Howdy there, Pirate Jack! Infringe any more of Fox’s copyrights lately?
      
      No one has a problem with paying. Why is this so difficult to understand? The problem is accepting the artificial market created and maintained by the content industry. The consumers determine the market and dictate the provider behavior, but the dinosaurs want to dictate consumer behavior through threats, legislation, and the creation of laws that keep them from having to adapt. This is not how the free market works unless you’re DeBeers, but that’s a whole other conversation…
    - http://www.facebook.com/eric.boehm Jack Murdock
      
      Right because a tiny screenshot from the Simpsons is equal to the terabytes of pilfered content that is downloaded everyday? Riiigghht.
      
      Millions of people download copyrighted content off torrents everyday for free. Probably tens of millions and you’re telling me that no one has a problem with paying for things? That is the problem. Torrents give you the same content, except you don’t have to be capable of self sacrifice, or leave your house for that matter.
      ‘
      
      Please explain what is so artificial about the market. The consumer behavior you are referring to is just paying for things. You seem to be justifying not paying under the guise of some righteous cause that aims to prevent the “evil fat cats” from “stealing your money.”
    - Anonymous
      
      “Right because a tiny screenshot from the Simpsons is equal to the terabytes of pilfered content that is downloaded everyday? Riiigghht.”
      
      What kind of fucked up logic is that, you lunatic? That’s like saying one tiny little MURDER is insignificant considering all the thousands of people that are murdered everyday. It doesn’t make one fucking bit of difference if it was a tiny screenshot or a big screenshot, if it was 20K or 20MB. You don’t get to use “but OTHER people are doing it way more than I am! Waaaaaah!!” as an excuse to justify breaking the law. The Simpsons weren’t public domain the last time I checked. You infringed the copyright of 20th Century Fox and Matt Groening. YOU ARE A COPYRIGHT INFRINGER.
      
      So by your own code of “morality” you should now either be sent to prison, given a life-ruining fine, or both. When can we expect you to turn yourself in?
      
      Or are you a total fucking hypocrite?
    - Anonymous
      
      “Right because a tiny screenshot from the Simpsons is equal to the terabytes of pilfered content that is downloaded everyday? Riiigghht.”
      
      What kind of fucked up logic is that, you lunatic? That’s like saying one tiny little MURDER is insignificant considering all the thousands of people that are murdered everyday. It doesn’t make one fucking bit of difference if it was a tiny screenshot or a big screenshot, if it was 20K or 20MB. You don’t get to use “but OTHER people are doing it way more than I am! Waaaaaah!!” as an excuse to justify breaking the law. The Simpsons weren’t public domain the last time I checked. You infringed the copyright of 20th Century Fox and Matt Groening. YOU ARE A COPYRIGHT INFRINGER.
      
      So by your own code of “morality” you should now either be sent to prison, given a life-ruining fine, or both. When can we expect you to turn yourself in?
      
      Or are you a total fucking hypocrite?
    - Anonymous
      
      And who ever said we don’t buy what we like?
    - DAWG
      
      Piracy compensates artists with popularity, not immediate monetary gain but it leads to monetary gain. You just dont like the fact that piracy doesn’t compensate the corporate parasites who make their living collecting the bulk of profits from recorded media. Where is the morality in earning millions of dollars a year just sitting around manipulating laws and markets? Take a look in the mirror Jack, before you try pointing your little troll finger around here on torrentfreak. You are a colossal dipsh!t.
    - http://disqus.com/ Rob8urcakes
      
      Spot-on DAWG. I agree 100% (and you put it so succinctly too).
      
      These lazy fucktards will soon be no more.
    - http://www.facebook.com/eric.boehm Jack Murdock
      
      Im sorry. Let me see if I can pay for my groceries next week with popularity. When they tell me that bread costs $2, maybe I can just hand them some popularity and they will be fine with it.
      
      Ive got news for you. The artist gets no money either when you pay either. I could care less about the corporate big wigs. What I do care about is the entertainment which seems to be declining in quality, because some people think that the creative industry are their slaves. Choosing not to pay for things under the guise of sticking it to the man just doesn’t work. I highly encourage you to go learn about record labels. Artists couldn’t do what they do without the labels, no matter how corrupt or evil you think said labels are.
      
      People like you love pointing out the simpsons screencap. Sorry to disappoint you, but that was from Hulu, which is a free, legal service. Oh I guess there are perfectly legal, digital distribution channels. So much for the creative industry needing to update itself to the internet age.
    - http://profiles.google.com/dnte1020 D G
      
      “Artists couldn’t do what they do without the labels…”
      
      In this digital day and age?
      
      That is such a bullshit premise.
      
      “Im sorry. Let me see if I can pay for my groceries next week with popularity. When they tell me that bread costs $2, maybe I can just hand them some popularity and they will be fine with it.”
      
      Your analog analogy only works with analog things. In the digital world it is 1′s an 0′s.
      
      There is no cost of production any more. How much does a blank cd cost when you are buying them by the shipping container? A fraction of a cent? And you expect me to pay $20+ when I only want one or two tracks of of said cd? That percentage of profit is unacceptable.
      
      I pay for cable television, why should I have to watch ads? If you are old enough, you would remember that was the whole deal in the first place. By paying for cable not only did you get a few extra channels but you didn’t have to watch commercials. Somewhere along they way, when they realized more people were paying for tv than not, they said fuck you here are commercials anyway what are you going to do?
    - Anonymous
      
      File-sharers are content industry’s “largest customers”
      
      “These figures show that there is no sharp divide between file sharers and others in their buying behaviour. On the contrary, when it comes to attending concerts, and expenses on DVDs and games, file sharers are the industry’s largest customers… There does not appear to be a clear relationship between the decline in sales and file sharing.”
      
      http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/05/file-sharers-are-content-industrys-largest-customers.ars
      
      Just a little reality check for you, Jack. But somehow I doubt it’ll get through to you, what with the way you intentionally filter out reality and all.
      
      Artists couldn’t do what they do without the labels? Wow. How do you manage to write comments while giving a blowjob to all the labels simultaneously? Don’t their dicks get in the way? It’s amazing how you can claim you don’t care about the corporate bigwigs… And then let loose the epic bullshit that artists couldn’t do what they do without the labels. So that means music didn’t exist before the record labels descended from Heaven and invented it. It also means that artists who don’t belong to a label don’t exist. Except they do… Guess that mean we’re supposed to just ignore them because they get in the way of Jackoff Murcock’s recording industry propaganda, huh?
      
      And Hulu? Oh boy! Sorry, that doesn’t excuse you. Try harder.
    - DAWG
      
      Piracy compensates artists with popularity, not immediate monetary gain but it leads to monetary gain. You just dont like the fact that piracy doesn’t compensate the corporate parasites who make their living collecting the bulk of profits from recorded media. Where is the morality in earning millions of dollars a year just sitting around manipulating laws and markets? Take a look in the mirror Jack, before you try pointing your little troll finger around here on torrentfreak. You are a colossal dipsh!t.
    - Ugly American
      
      “If you are enjoying someone’s work, it’s only right that you give something back to them.”
      
      …which is exactly why a $upporter of a given artist should decide how much of that $upport he or she is willing to give. A parasitic intermediary between artist and fan has no moral right to make such decisions or to keep the lion’s share of income generated by any given work. How’s that for “moral principles,” you MAFIAA troll? I find it interesting how those of you in the copywrong’s amen corner ALWAYS neglect to address these central issues in your defense of antiquated business models. Evolve or die, “Jack” – or Reasoned Mind – or whatever the heck you’ll decide to call yourself next week.
      
      For your further edification:
      http://www.thefreedictionary.com/moral+principle
    - http://www.facebook.com/eric.boehm Jack Murdock
      
      You don’t seem to like the fact that there is anyone out there who has a different view than you do. The copyright industry has evolved. Here are some examples : itunes, xbox live, netflix, hulu, etc. There are plenty of legal alternatives, but fileshareres choose to stick their fingers in their ears and chant “I can’t hear you” whenever any of them are brought up.
      
      That is exactly what is happening. Supporters (if you can even call them that) can choose to pay for things or download them for free. The vast majority of them have proven that they are willing to pay $0 for the entertainment they enjoy. Your revolutionary idea hasn’t exactly proved to be a stunning success.
    - http://profiles.google.com/dnte1020 D G
      
      That is bullshit.
      
      I subscribe to cable. I pay a whopping $200+ a month to get every channel.
      
      Why is me downloading a show that, IMO, I have already paid for a crime?
      
      Why should I have to pay $60, $70, $80 for a PAST season that I already paid to see?
    - Anonymous
      
      Maybe he doesn’t like that you’re a paid industry shill repeating flimsly lies like a broken record.
      
      Here, let me destroy your shit with yet another link.
      
      UK POLL: File-Sharers Buy More
      http://www.zeropaid.com/news/87196/uk-poll-file-sharers-buy-more-music/
      
      Also.. itunes, xbox live, netflix, hulu? Should I point out that none of those things were the content industry’s idea, and that the content industry infact hates them and fights against them in an endless quest for maximum price gouging, restrictions, and DRM? Or would that be too mean?
    - Anonymous
      
      Maybe he doesn’t like that you’re a paid industry shill repeating flimsly lies like a broken record.
      
      Here, let me destroy your shit with yet another link.
      
      UK POLL: File-Sharers Buy More
      http://www.zeropaid.com/news/87196/uk-poll-file-sharers-buy-more-music/
      
      Also.. itunes, xbox live, netflix, hulu? Should I point out that none of those things were the content industry’s idea, and that the content industry infact hates them and fights against them in an endless quest for maximum price gouging, restrictions, and DRM? Or would that be too mean?
    - Anonymous
      
      Maybe he doesn’t like that you’re a paid industry shill repeating flimsly lies like a broken record.
      
      Here, let me destroy your shit with yet another link.
      
      UK POLL: File-Sharers Buy More
      http://www.zeropaid.com/news/87196/uk-poll-file-sharers-buy-more-music/
      
      Also.. itunes, xbox live, netflix, hulu? Should I point out that none of those things were the content industry’s idea, and that the content industry infact hates them and fights against them in an endless quest for maximum price gouging, restrictions, and DRM? Or would that be too mean?
    - Ugly American
      
      “You don’t seem to like the fact that there is anyone out there who has a different view than you do.”
      
      What I don’t like is the same propaganda, lies and industry spins which are spewed by shills like yourself. Are we clear on this, “Jack?”
      
      “The copyright industry has evolved.”
      
      No, it hasn’t – on the contrary, it continues to criminalize its customer base while staunchly defending its monopoly. Care for a few examples?
      
      “Here are some examples : itunes, xbox live, netflix, hulu, etc.”
      
      As already mentioned, NONE of these entities are products of your cherished “industry.”
      
      “There are plenty of legal alternatives,”
      
      …with DRM and lossy compression such as MP3s? No thanks, “Jack” – expecting payment for substandard “entertainment” is pure lunacy. As a paying customer, I DEMAND timely access to HD movies, lossless music files (FLAC or APE for example) and NO DRM. When your precious “industry” can provide such “products” for reasonable sums of money, it will see my $$$ and not before.
      
      “but fileshareres choose to stick their fingers in their ears and chant “I can’t hear you” whenever any of them are brought up.”
      
      Show me ONE industry site which provides anything I’ve mentioned above.
      
      “That is exactly what is happening.”
      
      No, this is exactly what’s happening – people are sick of the copywrong monopolies, antiquated business models and the inept channels of distribution which have yet to cater to the demands of paying customers. As such, many are forced to look elsewhere because YOUR “industry” refuses to listen, refuses to evolve and refuses to compromise. I suppose it’s much easier to bribe politicians instead of listening to the demands of customers…
      
      “Supporters (if you can even call them that) can choose to pay for things or download them for free.”
      
      That’s because $upporters like myself attend live performances and purchase band merchandise instead of plastic discs which enrich only the aforementioned parasitic intermediaries mentioned supra. Furthermore, many of us prefer to $upport independent film makers / film studios instead of Hollywood’s recycled garbage.
      
      “The vast majority of them have proven that they are willing to pay $0 for the entertainment they enjoy.”
      
      Several studies demonstrate the contrary and you know it – but why cloud the issue with facts, “Jack?” ;-)
      
      “Your revolutionary idea hasn’t exactly proved to be a stunning success.”
      
      According to who? Read and learn:
      http://torrentfreak.com/top-artists-strike-back-at-greedy-music-labels-090311/
      http://torrentfreak.com/be-a-hero-be-a-pirate/
    - Anonymous
      
      If you are enjoying someone’s work, it’s only right that you give something back to them?
      
      Then borrowing is wrong. Watching a DVD with a friend is wrong. Playing videogames together is wrong if you don’t all own a copy of the game. Free over the air radio is wrong. Free over the air TV is wrong. Hearing some music being blasted out of a car stereo and enjoying it is wrong. Most things are wrong.
      
      Hmm… Seems pretty hard to believe. You know what’s alot easier to believe? That you’re full of shit. Let’s go with that.
    - DocGerbil100
      
      Heh. That’s probably the best answer for Eric the shill. :D
  - http://www.facebook.com/eric.boehm Jack Murdock
    
    The proof is in something called a moral principle. If you are enjoying someone’s work, it’s only right that you give something back to them. Otherwise, you are presuming that said work grows on trees and someone didn’t invest weeks of their time and lots of money in it.
- http://twitter.com/uJonesing Utah Jones
  
  U mad.
- Grande Gungala
  
  Well, do you know how science works? There is no copyright, imagine if Newton had put some kind of copyright on differential analysis… I am not talking about inventions, but basic science which produces the necessary knowledge to make viable the inventions. Scientists, do not have high salaries or anything, they usually dedicate themselves because they like what they do, and it works, its works very well.
  
  Not only the business model is outdated, it does not make sense. Why some one should be paid for one music more than an engineer (or any other profession) in a year? There is a overvaluing of entertaining business, and the entertaining business have the money and power to keep the statu quo. This is all about maintaining the statu quo, and nothing about innovation.
  - Anonymous
    
    Agree…
    Copyright does NOT exist..
    
    It is … a fabrication of the imagination !
    
    Bring me this “”copyright”" , show me it….. Then I will believe !
    - http://www.facebook.com/eric.boehm Jack Murdock
      
      ……….
      
      It’s a law. Laws aren’t physical objects that you can touch. By your logic, you might as well say “traffic rules don’t exist because I can’t see them.”
    - Lulz
      
      ………
      
      How many laws are still on the books that NO ONE follows? Copyright is no different.
    - Anonymous
      
      Laws are different in all countries, one of the seized sites was legal in it’s own country. Does that mean YOUR American law is being enforced where it does not apply? Huh, jack? But i bet you won’t respond to this, because you never do, you chicken.
    - Anonymous
      
      It’s NOT a law ….
      It’s a right…. the right to copy.. ( enforced by law )
      
      true… Law It also a fabrication of the imagination !
      ( the imagination of the MAJORITY based on ideals)
      
      however……
      
      Modern Civilisation and ALL human Knowledge is based on copying and sharing content (information)
      
      ffs… genetics is copying and sharing OUR DNA/RNA…
      
      Copying and sharing information is the reason we exist !
      
      The right to copy was invented , purely for financial reasons of a few.
      Has nothing at all to do with human welfare , human progress etc… ( only the people who profit say it is )
      .
      
      LAWS are a public consensus on what is right for humanity.( meant to be … although corrupted by money)
      .
      
      Copyright is a one sided non-consensus that is perpetrated on people , by content / information / service / natural resource “”creators”" who generally are the richest in society.
      
      It is NOT technically a “”right to Copy”" …
      
      It is a REMOVAL of a “”right to copy”".
- Grande Gungala
  
  Well, do you know how science works? There is no copyright, imagine if Newton had put some kind of copyright on differential analysis… I am not talking about inventions, but basic science which produces the necessary knowledge to make viable the inventions. Scientists, do not have high salaries or anything, they usually dedicate themselves because they like what they do, and it works, its works very well.
  
  Not only the business model is outdated, it does not make sense. Why some one should be paid for one music more than an engineer (or any other profession) in a year? There is a overvaluing of entertaining business, and the entertaining business have the money and power to keep the statu quo. This is all about maintaining the statu quo, and nothing about innovation.
- lala
  
  “offers the artist compensation for their work and motivates artists to innovate”
  
  are you talking about the same ones who tried to sneak in a work for hire clause in the copyright law in order to steal the royalties of the artists
- DocGerbil100
  
  Big Content providers are perfectly happy making deals with TV and radio stations. They make very large amounts of money from doing so, despite the fact that the content is effectively free to the end consumer.
  
  There is nothing at all to stop them from making the exact same kinds of deal with everyone from torrent-sites to filehosts. Instead, they’ve repeatedly gone out of their way to undermine every internet resource for media, including those keen to stay on the right side of the law.
  
  The only reasons for that – and for COICA, since you seem to have forgotten the topic – have nothing whatsoever to do with sustainable business-models, but with illegally operating a price-fixing cartel, with illegally limiting consumer access to their vastly inferior selections of vendors, media and formats and with obtaining laws that effectively allow them to have new internet competitors banned on demand if they don’t support the same thing.
  
  For the MAFIAA, the interests of content-creators, consumers and citizens in general are as irrelevant as the weather on Mars – and the burning of your civil-rights along the way is merely a side-effect.
  - http://www.facebook.com/eric.boehm Jack Murdock
    
    That would defeat the purpose of a torrent site. The owners would have to start charging their users to bring in the cash to pay the content providers. The users would all promptly throw their hands in the air in disgust and move on the next site. Remember what happened when mininova went legal?
    - DocGerbil100
      
      Your reply is absurd. Users left Mininova because over 99% of its content was removed following the imposition of a court order obtained by BREIN – an order to remove all copyrighted content by filters, not to charge customers for it.
      
      At no time has any site, anywhere on the internet, ever been allowed to do business in the way that consumers and third-party content-delivery companies want.
      
      Despite many requests for fair licensing deals, would-be content-providers are permanently obstructed by unreasonable and unworkable terms & conditions imposed by the established content-gateway companies.
      
      In the case of music, business is difficult at best. In the case of film and television, business is virtually impossible (and usually completely so outside of the USA).
      
      This is not merely the view of pirates or copyright-reform advocates, this is the view of Apple, Amazon, Google, and every other fully-legal company that has ever tried to do business with MAFIAA-associated companies in this area.
      
      Against that, those major content-delivery ventures which have been implemented – such as iTunes and Steam – have been largely very successful. There is clearly both public demand and revenue to support those services.
      
      The only remotely plausible reason for first-party content providers to refuse business is if they wish to manipulate the market to keep prices artificially high and to keep potential competitors from entering the marketplace.
      
      Both activities are illegal under the laws of both the EU and the USA – as well as under the laws of most of their member states.
- Anonymous
  
  Jacks at it again… awww….. He like a really old Grandad….
  
  You don’t know Jack ! Jack off .
  
  Your opinions are ancient history… They don’t apply now…. Wont in the future..
  
  You troll this site nearly every day.. With your anti-share , pro big industry comments.
  
  If you are not a paid troll…… Then you must have dementia and have forgot what the Maffia & iRA pay you for. ( They pay you to troll…. remember ? )
  - Jmorse43508
    
    I’d love to have a Firefox plugin where you could selectively delete/hide or otherwise disarm a troll’s comments. Maybe something that would identify a user by their name and then disemvowel their comments.
    
    Maybe something like this could be implemented by Disqus, where there would be a ‘disemvowel’ button.
    
    A forum I visit a lot has an option to ignore another poster’s comments. I have several MAFIAA trolls/shills on that list.
  - http://www.facebook.com/eric.boehm Jack Murdock
    
    ……..
    
    Pro big industry? Try pro artist. You seem to forget that the entrainment industry isn’t just about corporate fat cats. There are also the content creators. It’s easy to rip the industry off if you dehumanize the people behind the industry by calling them evil corporate monsters.
    - Anonymous
      
      Hahahah, yeah. You aren’t pro big industry. You fellate them furiously at every chance you get, but you aren’t pro big industry. You echo their fallacies and talkingpoints, you lie on their behalf, but you aren’t pro big industry. You say artists would wither up and die without them, that music would cease to be, but you aren’t pro big industry. You say they prove a vital and irreplaceable role, but you aren’t pro big industry.
      
      I’m impressed. That’s one of the most hilariously see-through lies you’ve ever told. You are not only pro big industry, you are paid by big industry. This makes you fiercely anti-artist by definition, which is already obvious enough from your comments.
      
      So what’s up next on the Jack Murdock Lie-O-Rama?
      
      “My name isn’t Jack Murdock! And I’m not posting this comment on TorrentFreak! Your eyes are lying!”
- NashvilleKnowItAll
  
  As some one who has spent years in the industry, I would like to inform you that there are several models which enable artists and creators to create, innovate, and be compensated for their work. Ever heard of a NetLabel, what about Crowd Sourcing, Band Camp? The current model is a banking and loan, a risk management model as far as the Majors are concerned. Also you fail to take into account that artists and creators are not inherently identical groups. Creators make money from licensing and publishing far more than sales themselves. When the model enables creators to make more money off of ring tone sales than record sales, that system is broken. The current law, which you are welcome to look up for free, restricts creation by denying the public access. Life plus 70 years is too long for copyright to last, it stifles competition and innovation.
  
  As for your statement about censorship: The real issue is not the closing of pirate sites, or even sites that have been proven legal in their respective countries highest court. The real issue is that corporations are setting a precedent which enables the government to seize domain names. That can be used for censorship, and it’s not a big leap. If they’re willing to shutdown a site for infringement, why wouldn’t they be willing (and arguably far more willing and easily supported) in seizing sites allegedly connected with “terrorism”? It’s a dangerous precedent. One that I couldn’t support, even if I thought it was an effective means of protecting a client’s interests.
  - http://www.facebook.com/eric.boehm Jack Murdock
    
    It all comes back to whether the consumer is willing to fork up cash for things they enjoy. Not many people do since they seem to judging by their sensationalist attacks on the very concept of payment. These armchair activists try to justify themselves by ignoring the plight of the artist and talking about how diabolical the corporations are. They think they are unconditionally entitled to the work of others.
    
    I wonder if they know how much work is involved in managing a movie studio or a record label. Honestly, where does the sense of entitlement come from?
    - Anonymous
      
      “It all comes back to whether the consumer is willing to fork up cash for things they enjoy.”
      
      And they are. ESPECIALLY filesharers!
      
      Online file sharers ‘buy more music’:
      http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2005/jul/27/media.business
      
      I hope you enjoyed that link as much as I did. Oh… Wait, you probably didn’t.
      
      Anyway… Speaking of “ignoring”, let’s talk ignorance. NashvilleKnowItAll has spent years in the music industry. You’ve spent how many? Zero, as I recall?
      
      I’m sure you know a lot about ignoring the plight of the artist. That is, after all, the only way a person can bring themselves to support the labels as fanatically as you do while still being able to sleep at night. Or can you sleep at night?
      
      As for where the sense of entitlement comes from, try looking in a mirror.
- You Don’t Know Jack
  
  Yo Jack Murdock, you seems to have pirated fox’s shit before, doesn’t that makes you a hypocrite? Here’s sceenshot of his old facebook page:
  http://img84.imageshack.us/i/jackmurdockericboehmfac.jpg/
  
  And his facebook account is now gone. Feeling the guilt there Pirate Jack?
  http://www.facebook.com/eric.boehm
- Guest
  
  That model is a 100 year parenthesis in history. No, it does not give artists any compensation, only very few can actually achieve that; everything is stolen by the labels. Our model is not free things, our model is you move your butt and tour and do live shows and thats where you get paid; in the past the labels and their cartel was your only promotional means, now the Internet suffices.
  
  It seems you have missed the part where thousands of innocent sites were wrongly seized for “child porn”, when in fact it was a mistake. When you give them such tremendous power for censorship, it will hardly not be used against the dissidence.
  
  You are also forgetting, laws in the USA are invalid elsewhere, but by default everyone polls US root DNS. Linking sites are legal in most parts of the world.
- JoTheBird
  
  GUYS, DON’T FEED THE TROLL, YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER:
  
  “In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into a desired emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.”
  
  Furthermore, this troll isn’t even slightly smart.
  
  JUST DON’T FEED THEM, OK?
Fucktheauths

i think to publish it here brings it in two direction a thisis a hoax of the authorities or
b this will be directly cracked by the boys in brown
Fucktheauth

what about to over flow all the server of the us and break their system and then redirect all data into middle east and russia and use then some balkan server to publish then data
Anonymous

Bravo fellas, bravo! :)
http://thefailship.net/ Jeroenz0r

Current redirect list:

xmlUrl[0] = http://mafiaafire.com/xml-update/xml-list.php
xmlUrl[1] = http://ifucksexygirls.com/xml-update/xml-list2.php
xmlUrl[2] = http://ezee.se/xml-update/xml-list3.php
xmlUrl[3] = http://mafiaafire.com/xml-update/xml-list1.php
- MAFIAAFire
  
  We did not try to obfuscate the code nor hide it (hence the comments too are left as is).
  If you wanted the list you could have just asked us.
  Don’t worry, we don’t think you “stole” the code from our site :D
  
  After we add a few tweaks it will be open source anyway, but feel free to tinker with it as it is now ;)
  - http://thefailship.net/ Jeroenz0r
    
    It’s only a proof you don’t fuck with people. Since it’s flagged now it seems you guys don’t give a fuck,
Foff

How is that for sh@t on your face John Morton? Stick a carrot where the sun doesn’t shine!
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Tim Kuik

MAFIAA Fire ftw!!!!! :)
http://www.facebook.com/jordan.kratz Jordan Kratz

Great News !!!!
Screw The MAFIAA !!!
Anonymous

kill_it_with_fire.jpg
Anonymous

I would add these seized domains to my must visit list. You have to wonder what sweet stuff they provide to have annoyed the US Government so much.

This add-on needs to be stated on Wikipedia under ICE’s domain seizure policy.
- Anonymous
  
  Haha, yeah that would be awesome. A direct link on their wiki page.
  
  It should not be so hard to find a chrome plugin coder. Anyone know any? From forums you are on or irc channels? Or just write some people that already make a plugin on their chrome extensions page. I’m sure there is someone that will just do this for free.
  - MAFIAAFire
    
    That would be awesome and we would be most happy to credit him for his work on the site.
    
    We want to hit all browsers that can do add-ons/extensions or whatever you want to call it.
    
    Imagine if every browser had something like this, website blocking would be something that you would look back and laugh at.
- Anonymous
  
  You can see their main page here if anyone wants to edit it…
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement
  
  Since the Intellectual Property section that contains “Operation in Our Sites” is very short and does not even mention the twice legal Rojadirecta (Spanish domain seized by Americans) then it seems the section needs to be largely expanded.
- Anonymous
  
  You can see their main page here if anyone wants to edit it…
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement
  
  Since the Intellectual Property section that contains “Operation in Our Sites” is very short and does not even mention the twice legal Rojadirecta (Spanish domain seized by Americans) then it seems the section needs to be largely expanded.
- http://disqus.com/ Rob8urcakes
  
  I tried to do just that V0 but the ICE wiki-page doesn’t seem to accept edits – well there’s a surprise!
  
  What I was reminded of during my short visit to that page was, “U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was formed pursuant to the Homeland Security Act of 2002 following the events of September 11, 2001…. ”
  
  And now they close down websites that allow copies of Bugs Bunny to be made.
  AAAAAAAaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahah.
  
  Will Disney make a movie of this débacle I wonder?
Anon

Installed for the LuLz
Anonymous

Version 1 for me :)

Trust FF will review and allow it…
You guys just have to keep updating on Mozilla… many haven’t…
But don’t mind gettin it elsewhere if is.
Thx..
- MAFIAAFire
  
  Everyone please sign up for the email updates as well.
  
  If we ever go down we will spring up but while waiting we can contact you easier for updates.
  
  We submitted the latest build as well to Mozilla… still waiting.
  We left comments and everything intact to rush things along but… no dice.
DJDOG

When I read the article back in Nov. regarding “Domain Seizures” this was my idea and I give you props for releasing it. Too busy to work on it myself, but seems like you got everything in working order.

Possibly, I’ll still make my own too have more than one alternatives just “in-case” you ever go down. (Shouldn’t happen).

Read your F.A.Q. and mostly agree with everything you said, your a funny guy and you remind of me.
Battyboy

Does anyone want to sniff my fart?
Comacaca

Sniff yer own fart Bozo! Pirate Bay iz down does anyone know what the story iz?
Comacaca

Sniff yer own fart Bozo! Pirate Bay iz down does anyone know what the story iz?
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Paco

does this work with/or compatible with Opera browser?
ARTiST

Kudos on the idea MAFIAAFire! Well, firstly as I read the report and the comments, one thing sprung up in my mind, you have features in place to combat automated usage of the tool. That is in case you don’t divulge the list on your site, and the MAFIAA guys want the list. But then again, US laws only apply to the ones registered on US soil, so I guess that would be kinda redundant.

Secondly, as to the area where to this plugin pertains and what the laws think of it, is beyond the ordinary mortals like you and me. The law is like clay, they can mould it in anyway they like, just because this is the first case of it’s kind if I’m not mistaken. What they, by they I mean Mozilla Foundation, and of course the omnipresent censorship organizations, will let them use as a model for others. While I write this, one more example springs to my mind, didn’t Apple remove the Wikileaks app from their store?

But as they say, let’s enjoy the things while they last, which hopefully will be forever!

PS: You don’t suppose you can collect some stats while you are at it? Could make some fun reading! And oh, a special thanks to a certain unicorn and leprechaun!
Foff

The argument that ice uses is that knock offs cost money and jobs. Really, whose jobs and whose money? First if I bought a knock off it is because I never would buy the original since it would be out of my budget by a long shot. Second I would know it is a knock off, after all what would you expect from a shady site and too good to be true price. Finally and sadly almost nothing is made here in the states so any manufacturing jobs lost are not on the us shores.

The same can be said for copyright infringement. They are not saving any american jobs by taking over sites. In fact they are costing them by driving sites to be registered outside of the states and putting those out of work who are running them. Despite what the mafiaa claims piracy is costing the movie industry zero because anyone who dowloads is not a potential customer.

The bottom line is that ice is accomplishing nothing useful and as this plug-in demonstrates no matter what they throw at the pirates there will always be a way around it.
Anonymous

I’ll definately pick up this plugin when it comes out for Chrome.
Wonder if it’ll work with SRWare Iron 8? (I can’t stand the URL autocomplete from newer versions of Chromium, so I’m sticking with this old version.)
Eh, whatever, as long as it’ll be open source, I can find my own way. Kudos, MAFIAAFire!
http://toby7728.myopenid.com/ TT7228

I’ll be watching this addon carefully. I think I’ll stick to editing my hosts file, as I don’t like installing addons that aren’t crucial; every addon slows down Firefox a tiny bit. Plus editing your hosts file works across browsers so it will work with my Chrome, Opera, Firefox & IE9.

I’ll try it out in a few days, see whether or not it’s worth installing. It certainly looks promising. I’m glad someone is standing up to the MAFIAA.
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http://disqus.com/ Rob8urcakes

The dev-guy stated, “Our right to privacy should outweigh any outdated business model, unfortunately average Joe cannot afford a $10,000 plate dinner to speak to their representatives and his voice is drowned out by the vultures who have been doing this for decades.”

And whoever you are, I will not only have your babies for stating this basic fact so well but I’m tempted to INSIST we have babies lol !!!

Anyway, to get back on-topic, I guess it’s becoming quite clear that the USA no longer believes in market forces let alone democracy, Human Rights and civil liberties when the government makes the same mistakes today that actually created the Country and Constitution all those hard-fought years ago.

Now you guys try to export your criminally narrow-minded protectionism worldwide simply because a few rich people pay you your election expenses.

Time to reform again you guys – you’ve lost the plot, and lost touch with “We, the People…”
DocGerbil100

Thank you, MAFIAAFire!
Much obliged.
:D
Anon

Installed. Thanks!
Some Guy

+1 to MAFIAAFire just another bit of proof that no matter what filesharing will never be prevented. The masses of people filesharing out there is too great to stop. With all the intellect combined, we’ll always be several steps ahead of the MAFIAA and various other organisations :)
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Ninja

I honestly and warmly laughed @ MAFIAA now. As wisely pointed above: pwnd.
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Seemenone

This addon is a joke, every 15 redirects in sends you to their page begging for money…

Ridiculous, how can torrentfreak endorse such thing

var quickFilter_100_count_redirect_url=’http://www.mafiaafire.com/help_us.php’;

if(qucikFilterRedirectCount % 15 == 0)
{
window.content.location.href = quickFilter_100_count_redirect_url+”?d=”+mafiaafireFilterUrl;
}
- http://twitter.com/ezee ezee
  
  As far as I can see, that page is blank and redirects you further (to your destination) right now.
  Perhaps in future it will ask you for a donation.
  
  What’s wrong with asking for a donation/help if you are using the plugin? It does not always send you to that page but every 15 times, which obviously means you are using it.
  
  Is your problem with the plugin, what it does, what it represents, the creators or TF?
- Jacktard
  
  Agreed. That redirect makes me wary of using the plug-in, not matter what is on the redirect page right now.
  
  However, can’t that code be edited? Instead of 100, how about changing it to 1000000000000000? Or changing the 15% to 100%. Or even removing those lines altogether?
  - MAFIAAFire
    
    Look, we are a small new site trying to bring you new stuff.
    Once you install the plugin you will forget about us as everything “just works”.
    
    We need to remind you to spread the word or give us some kind of feedback or maybe tell you when a new version is out etc
    
    Every 15 redirects also guarantees that this wont be obtrusive.
    
    But if this is such a huge issue for some of you, we can have an option in the next version or so to “disable” this.
    - Iycgtptyarvg
      
      Maybe have it ‘remind’ users once 1 month after installing it?
      This would not be intrusive, and would guarantee you feedback if users actually keep it installed for that long.
      
      Anyway, thanks for the plug-in.
- Jacktard
  
  Agreed. That redirect makes me wary of using the plug-in, not matter what is on the redirect page right now.
  
  However, can’t that code be edited? Instead of 100, how about changing it to 1000000000000000? Or changing the 15% to 100%. Or even removing those lines altogether?
- P. observer
  
  check the post on boingboing the comment i made has instructions to circumvent this and a cracked .xpi
  funfact: ALL FF addons are open source open the addon in 7zip and presto there’s the source
Predator

Cool! So basically we are ready to stand to the corporate parasites before we kill them all.
- http://www.facebook.com/eric.boehm Jack Murdock
  
  Here is the dictionary definition of parasite
  
  a person who receives support, advantage, or the like, from another or others without giving any useful or proper return, as one who lives on the hospitality of others.
  
  Pirates never give anything back the copyright industry, so I would say that makes them the real parasites. Now the corporate people.. Im willing to bet you that they put in an honest day’s work, like any desk job.
  
  It sounds like you feel feel guilty about downloading and try to pin it on an easy target, like the corporate entities.
  - Anonymous
    
    “a person who receives support, advantage, or the like, from another or others without giving any useful or proper return, as one who lives on the hospitality of others.”
    
    So in otherwords, the RIAA, MPAA, IFPI, BPI…
    
    “Pirates never give anything back the copyright industry”
    
    Aww, poor Jack. He doesn’t know I recently eviscerated that lie several times over. But, hey, wait a minute… The copyright industry? I thought you didn’t care about the copyright industry and only cared about the poor starving artists? Whoopsie. Your loyalty to your employer is showing.
    
    “Now the corporate people.. Im willing to bet you that they put in an honest day’s work, like any desk job.”
    
    Hahahahaha. Uh oh, your loyalty to your employer is showing *again*. Do these corporate people also make the sun shine? Make the birds sing? Do they make it rain candy? I bet they do. In Jack Murdock Land.
    
    Sadly, reality is a little more harsh on the corporate people. You know, with the lies, the price-fixing, the bribery of political officials, the wholesale robbery of their own artists, the stabs at internet censorship…
  - Anonymous
    
    “a person who receives support, advantage, or the like, from another or others without giving any useful or proper return, as one who lives on the hospitality of others.”
    
    So in otherwords, the RIAA, MPAA, IFPI, BPI…
    
    “Pirates never give anything back the copyright industry”
    
    Aww, poor Jack. He doesn’t know I recently eviscerated that lie several times over. But, hey, wait a minute… The copyright industry? I thought you didn’t care about the copyright industry and only cared about the poor starving artists? Whoopsie. Your loyalty to your employer is showing.
    
    “Now the corporate people.. Im willing to bet you that they put in an honest day’s work, like any desk job.”
    
    Hahahahaha. Uh oh, your loyalty to your employer is showing *again*. Do these corporate people also make the sun shine? Make the birds sing? Do they make it rain candy? I bet they do. In Jack Murdock Land.
    
    Sadly, reality is a little more harsh on the corporate people. You know, with the lies, the price-fixing, the bribery of political officials, the wholesale robbery of their own artists, the stabs at internet censorship…
Predator

We are going to end up with our own ISP less anonymous internet to which governments and corporation will be excluded.
Predator

About Jack Murdock comment

“It’s a law. Laws aren’t physical objects that you can touch. By your logic, you might as well say “traffic rules don’t exist because I can’t see them.”

No. it is not the law.

It does not exist because:

1) There is no consensus,

2) It infringe the US constitution.
Guest

“Andy”

Chrome is a far superior browser than Firefox.”

I hate chrome.
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townie2

very cool! thanks MAFIAAFire and Ernesto. it’s thanks to people like you “they” will never win this war :)
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another third world guy

I live here where CONTENT industry or the Poor fellows cant provide us with options such as release of latest movies, or even DVD’s of old shows, or anything mostly entertaining in contemporary or sometimes older times(benny hill show and or bit of fry and laurie), now when I am touring I buy the DVD’s cause I dont have timne to d/l but then I dont think i should pay for episodes which are flat out ( for eg.recent castle epps) but I have to. and I dont know what THESE “ARTIST ” get when I pay for dvd, why do they deserve to geta cool millions a day where as a regular joe gets like $8 per hour who also pays for their salaries.
i dont know I support this plugin and I will
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Nicolai

I just made a rewrite of the addon.
MAFIAA FIRE + NO ADS + NO “DANGEROUS” BEHAVIOUR = FireICE.

FireICE: https://addons.mozilla.org/da/firefox/addon/fireice/

All credit still goes to Mafiaa fire’s developer(s).
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