MovieX BitTorrent Tracker Busted By Australian Police
Written by enigmax on December 04, 2008MovieX, a very large BitTorrent site which made the headlines last year for its controversial tracker policy, has been shut down by Australian police. The site, thought to have as many as 400,000 users, is being blamed for the ‘transfer’ of 14 million movies and TV shows. So far, two people have been arrested.
Last year, semi-private BitTorrent site MovieX hit the headlines after it was accused of diverting upload bandwidth from users of The Pirate Bay, to its own tracker. Non-members of MovieX were allowed to upload to MovieX members but were not allowed to download from them. This move wasn’t appreciated by a large proportion of the BitTorrent community.
Today, the site has bigger things to worry about. A press release from AFACT, (Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft) has proclaimed the death of a huge site, but stopped short of naming it.
TorrentFreak can now exclusively reveal that the site in question was MovieX, with one of the founders being Rama from Brisbane. The domain currently displays this message and is still operational:
We are temporarily offline.
Currently there is NO ETA AVAILABLE
@ADMINISTRATORS: PLEASE CONTACT DEV0 ASAP! ASK AROUND OTHER ADMINS IF YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO GET IN TOUCH WITH ME.
According to Australian Federal Police who shut down the site following an AFACT investigation, two Brisbane men from the same family – a 21 year-old and a 27 year-old (thought to be brothers) were arrested yesterday.
A bank account containing around AUS$54,000 (US $35,000) was frozen after the police alleged the money was proceeds from the site. Investigators close to the inquiry claim the site generated around AUS$10,000 (US $6,450) each month, with many users donating $10 a month for VIP access to direct-download material, which was separate from the site’s BitTorrent tracker. Other bank accounts connected to the site are currently under investigation. Computer equipment was also seized with a storage capacity of 2 terabytes.
“BitTorrent is a legitimate and efficient software for sharing files but, like any tool, it can be misused,” noted Neil Gane, AFACT’s Director of Operations.
Andrew Traucki who directed the Aussie movie Black Water has been getting in on the action, “applauding” the closure of the site. “Being a low budget film I didn’t get paid much and hoped to make some money for all my effort from the films’ sales. The fact that Black Water had been pirated and was online within days of being finished is upsetting. How are Australian film producers like me meant to make a living from our films if people pirate the film and watch it for free?”
However, although the movie was available for download via MovieX, things probably aren’t as bad as Traucki is now making out. As recently as August this year, Traucki said that he was delighted with the success of the movie, telling DVDindustry, “We wanted to make a film with international appeal and obviously we’ve succeeded,” going on to note that the movie had enjoyed “a remarkable sales ride”.
Penalties for commercial copyright crimes in Australia can amount to $60,000 and 5 years in jail for each offense.
More on this story as we get it.
Update: MovieX has opened a temporary forum. It is claimed there that the arrests have nothing to do with MovieX, but we have sufficient information showing that the opposite is true.
Previously: Movie Industry: London ‘Fake-Free Zone’ by 2012
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143 Responses
serves em well!
moviex was clearly being run for profit, shame on them.
Good riddance to bad trackers!
yer i read this on the inquirer first. check out their ultra lame article!
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/12/04/coppers-swoop-p2p-pirates
Its good that they were shutdown.
Stop profiting illegally and start sharing legally.
MovieX wasnt that bad. They did have some questionable practices with their tracker but they were ok. I dont condone what they did one bit. Its sad to see any torrent site get shut down, good or bad. Oh well, another one bites the dust.
Visit P2P Tech Time
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i know the admins. they are brothers & also Indians.
Looks like they have been ‘going down’ in more ways than one since you posted about MoviX’s tracker habits.
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/moviex.info
i know the admins. they are brothers & also Indians.
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and also thieves.
have fun in jail!
They are commercial? I wonder what shall happen if there are non-commercial trackers. I hope that they were taken down because of commercial activity. Are there non-commercial trackers there?
Still, one thing stands out: the lack of trial. Surely, the appropriate thing to do is to bring them to court first, and obtain evidence that it was commercial first, and then take it down. I am disturbed by the lack of due process.
Roze
http://www.10ch.org/
just keep it non profit like it should be.
Becos of scum like that we all suffer.
fkn leech site
Yeah, their fugly stunt to parasitise from normal sharers in order to press people into membership and make profit on the abuse of others was highly disgusting.
Their primary purpose was to rip off people – in any concievable way.
They wanted to rip off their members financially by bullying them into special subscriptions and selling services that where actually provided by the community of non-mebers.
And their scumbags of members where reclessly willing to try to rip off even weaker and unaware users and on top of that stupid enough to pay up for being enabled to rip off others in turn.
A pyramid of ripp-off scheme.
I sincerely hope these guys get their asses kicked hard, get quite some jailtime and as much money seized as possible.
May those scumbags burn!!!
I don’t know whether this site was operated for money but..
Torrent sites being run for commercial purposes are just as bad as the pirates who’ve profited on the creativity of others such as the guys who sell pirated Cds and Dvds on the streets.
Thats not what file-sharing should be about. The people who do this are responsible for giving all file-sharers a negative theiving image. An image that 95% of file-sharers dont deserve!
Problem is now they are going to spread more crap to the media and dumb f*cks about the “huge profits” torrent sites make, while neglecting to mention the difference in this torrent site and (for example) TPB/Demoniod, the different methods and business models.
Never forget, although the MAFIAA and the RIAA in particular are the offspring of whores and pimps, they are the masters of spin.
Cheers!
http://www.eZee.se
I think most people start private trackers to profit from them. But most do it indirectly. MovieX was profiting more directly. Just like many other private torrent trackers who literally sell invites. Heres another example. http://www.desitorrents.com/forums/
At the top you can see the following message:
Registrations are now “invitation only”. Visit DT Invites to purchase an Invite. You have to login to your account before you can view/post any message or download any files.
- DT Staff
Can you believe it? LOL. I hope they get shut down too.
They were profit and none profit ….. i actualy love the site .. good seeders at ALL TIMES and the admins r always helpfull … uploaders were really nice …… honestly for the bittorrent community they were a good site …..
as far as some of there policies go … yeah they werent the best … vip users paying for access to illegal content = not so smart ….
and that is a DIRECT FACT that is posted every were on the site … they were in-fact getting paid for users ….
which we all know dont fly …
but as for the site n general it kicked ass and any bittorrent user knows wat goes on on the illegal/not so illegal downloads on any tracker .. piratebay…demonoid(altho 90% clean) … so lets not act supprised here
undernead the fact that they had paid vip users (as do most trackers) they did nothing ur favorite trackers dont do right now to get them jail time …
and all they do is provide information … YOU … THE USERS provide the illegal conent and the users who download the content and use it illegally … if anyone should be fined and in-prisoned it should be YOU
but they can throw everyone in jail right ? … thats y the tracker takes the blame
im not defending moviex (once a great site gone wrong ) profiting of there site THE WAY THE DID IT was wrong … having a torrent site is not a crime tho …. thats not wat they get arrested for ….
they just took the hard drives as the topping on the cake …. because they were in the position to make life hell for there users … they jumped on it
No-one was forced to purchase VIP. I wasn’t a VIP nor did I donate money at all and it was still the best private site I belonged to.
Actually it says they suffered a HDD crash and not a bust?
Long live Moviex. Hope you sort everything out
vip was an option for ddl not a must have and the staff there were very helpful moviex will be missed by everyone
As usual press releases detail sums of monies frozen in bank accounts assuming it’s profit from the site. I’ve no experience with this site or their actions but I’ve seen the outlay costs for running a decent tracker and it’s higher than people think. OK all that money may be profits, but it might not be and already the media is making out these guys are majorly profiting from this site.
That article last year was bollocks! Moviex was responisible for a huge amount of scene releases to tpb etc. through admin loder (ok he didnt have the scene sources to start with but he spread a hell of a lot around.) Moviex infact let more ppl leech from them than the other way round. It’s very sad that moviex is closed and i wish Rama (two brothers) the best in their court case.
Sad day :(
What a load of bullshit the site opened a temp forum.because of a hhd crash,seems like people just like making stuff up on this site.
Police do not share info about bust’s so you know it’s just lie’s.
What a load of bullshit the site opened a temp forum.because of a hhd crash,seems like people just like making stuff up on this site.
Police do not share info about bust’s so you know it’s just lie’s.
Any proof to back up your statement or is it just your assumption?
Also … the cost for alot of the software and films that are released today is rediculous ….. thats y people r looking for alternatives ….
anyone who illegaly uses a movie download is only going to sell it for half price ….. and same with anything downloaded …
ask urself y this needs to be done .. because we all know with the millions of copies of some of these movies …. if the price was cut by half it would only cut into PURE PROFIT (beyond what it takes to pay everyone to create it and everything to make it) if thew industry was not profiting to heavily off of there releases (movie music and software ) then it would not be profitable to sale the goods at a lower price ….
and they would retain all sales …
in-short – if the industries were not OVERCHARGING there costumers there costumers would not be pirating there material and getting it for cheaper no matter how little u think the prices is … if its $20 for a cd and $12 is pure profit …. y cant they sell it for $10 -$11 and undercut the piracy … still make pure profit of $4
and not worry about people stealing it
and there would be little to no ambition to do so … it just wouldnt be worth it…
it may sound like a little but if a cd sales amillion copies somewere somones getting 4million more dollars then was nessecary to create it and pay everyone to help create it …
we all know physical cds cost less then $0.50… and we pay over $10 typicaly over $15
but we have rappers parading around in 50,000 cars for fun … compaining about income ….. Make sense ?
what cd processing and copywrites cost %30 of the cost to distrubte it ? ….. that 30% is soaked up by buissness men who can sign a paper .. BLAME THEM FOR PIRACY
The moviex tracker is still alive… this article is bollocks. just a hd error.
Post on the MovieX Forum by the Admin:
Hello,
We have suffered a major HDD failure on the Network File Storage server which contained all the site data (Web Data + MySQL + All the backups).
Currently, we are in a process of restoration process but this will take a couple of days to complete.
We will keep you updated regarding this matter.
We are apologize for this inconvenience caused!
VIPs will be granted extra days to cover the days that were down.
Please relax and chat in the LOUNGE section while we sort things out.
Again, we are very sorry for the inconvenience caused and we are working hard to restore the data.
MovieX Administration
Read it hear: http://www2.moviex.info/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2
the only way it can return is if the domain is owned by someone other than these already arrested pair and a backup is available that wasn’t at their house. If it comes back, this will be the reason why
MovieX was a great site. The most user-friendly sites I’ve ever known.
First of all, TorrentFreak is just grabbing information which will make people hate MovieX and leave the stuff which people like. What a ******!
VIP is not a forced option. People can’t seed back! THAT IS YOUR PROBLEM! And you want everything?? Well MovieX doesn’t wanna kill you, so the people work hard and get you something that you don’t need to seed back with your 10kB/s upload speed to a DVD9 download!
Yeh, you should be happy that you get it without seeding back.
What more do you want for free? Things are not free. If there weren’t VIP system, people aren’t gonna help the server costs.
That makes the users more responsible but why blame the site only?
You haters are loser and sadly you didn’t think with your little brain before posting your noobish comments.
Please don’t if your brain says “no” :)
Why do people make false assumptions?
All of our servers except for NFS server is online without any problems.
There will be no IP change what so ever as well.
–MovieX Admin
… BOOYAH!!! in ur faceeee!!!…
lmao (sorry just bored)
It’s funny to read the hysteria about this site… so it’s up, it’s not up, it’s a hard drive crash, or it’s a shutdown…
I’m satisfied with the clear answer. It’s all of the above.
Your all retarded – No ones been busted and the site lives on. All you haters f* off – and as for you who aren’t part of the site – stop bitching and join the right team. Dissing them simply cause your to stupid to understand the concept basically invalidates you as a human. Long live movieX and fack you wankers
I pay for vip and will continue to do so the site aint been busted so go be lamers somewhere else
LONG LIVE MOVIEX !!!!!!!!!!
Wow, people here are really retarded.
If you understand what a ratio torrent site is, you’ll understand MovieX, which is free to signup. The VIP offers alot since it eliminates the requirement to keep a good ratio. This is what bittorrent is all about, sharing! People that use public trackers are generally leechers, MovieX instead provides faster speeds for some of larger downloads since people actually share 1:1.
This isn’t the only ratio site, I’ve used others that work the same, and they have a solid community too. Just goes to show where the smart people go.
FAKEEEEEEE article. What a bunch of garbage lies on this website..
The people who are talking shit are the ones who are mad because they have to deal with the slow speeds from other bit-torrent sites.
I “donate” to MovieX because they deserve it and it just happens to come with benefits when anyone donates to MovieX, for example VIP. So I’m not “paying” for anything..
Don’t talk shit about something you have no clue about, your just making yourself look stupid and jealous.
PS
LONG LIVE MOVIEX BITCHES !! =]
Here is a link to the temp forum..seems to explain the downtime, although I am curious that the Australian police apparently released a statement which seems false…
http://www2.moviex.info/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2
Touchy folks out here, ey? Especially those well pampered MovieX-VIPs …*LOL*
What I like about the story is that the alleged hard disk failure took just everything: Website, Database aaaand all the backups …
who’s the noobs here?
Donno how to do a backup? Pity!
I can’t investigate how much Torrentfreak got right and what they might got wrong.
But moviex had been full of crap, lying and disinformation when their leeching scheme was uncovered. – and eager to spam other forums with blatantly swearing posts.
They (and their “members”) truely show their quality – here and there … again and again!
Enigmax you going to reference this article on your resume? Hope you get that job at the Weekly World News.
post updated..
TF really bit their tongue on this one. A mistake like this is something you would expect out of mainstream media. At least recant your claim since MovieX is up with forums again and trying to fix the problem.
http://www2.moviex.info/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3
Looks like they are lying to their users to keep them calm. they are claiming BS toward TorrentFreak.
oohhh boy, they are still butthurt after you guys revealed that they leech from the pirate bay.
Makes me sad to be Australian
and also, K_K, number 28, is a member of MovieX. of course, it seems people will just belive anything they hear. this is WAY too big of a coincidence to be fake. even members on the forum say that the ages mentioned are close to the actual ages of Rama and the other guy. but it’s not like an Admin for a money making website is just going to be all like “you guys just wasted all of your money, and the Sysops have been arrested, God speed”. so natually, they lie to keep things calm and to keep their cash intake flowing. big mistake running a place like that from austrailia though, what were they thinking.
One must be really ignorant to assume that torrent trackers are run on enthusiasm.
Why would anyone care about bunch of idiots if they don’t donate money?
as soon as running trackers become unprofitable, they size to exist.
but you can’t say they didn’t pocket at least a little of all the money they were making. they’ve covered their butts before, and it seems they are doing it again. even though last time they WERE lying about leeching from TPB. Plus, MovieX is a lot slower than half of the Private trackers I’ve been on and been a member of where they max out your download speed. and you don’t even have to wait, or donate.
I think you’re all a bunch of fucking idiots. Pirating is pirating regardless of how it’s done. Demonoid also charges for a premium membership yet noone seems to complain about them.
So tired of hearing the negative crap spouted by people against MovieX. It just shows you how many n00bs are out there and how totally gulible your are.
Who gives a rats arse if the founders make any money out of the site.
And as for the VIP’s being pampered……..how’s that claim stand up ?
I donate to X and am happy to.
I’ve had moviex banned in my hosts file for some time now. Fukc them & their dirty leeching from open-tracker users & giving nothing back.
This is the first time I’ve been happy that a torrent site is down (for whatever reason), so here’s a great big
“WOO-HOO!”
Let’s hope these money-grubbing scumbags _stay_ offline…
I don’t know who to believe .. TorrentFreak of their forums.
All of you have convinced me that avoiding torrents for all these years was a good thing, i wouldn’t want to catch something contagious.
I’ll stick with my VIP on Moviex.
If they made money with the site F*CK THEM!
I am with @52 I always block them if I have to bother with something public. Those folks are laaaaame…
http://www.fetchmp3.com
J.
I wasn’t a fan of that site. They were leeching massively from people on TPB.
“Your all retarded”
My “all retarded”? What?
C’mon…who can’t smell the BS here? You talk to any member of MovieX, VIP or not, and the only people complaining are the one’s who get banned for poor share ratios, which are probably all the people bashing them here! From what I understand, the VIP memberships are for access to DDLs, which is the member’s choice for faster and more reliable DLs. With all the snatch and run members of other sites, it’s tough to get a complete DL in any reasonable time. MovieX has great seeders and even greater community.
Long Live MovieX!!
well i never payed for anything there at all, tracker was fast like they forum, and many users shared there, and i think that there is more free user’s then actual vip’s on the site so i wonder if that story is true about the amount of money, i think it can maybe be drugs or just cause they got good jobs if they have that amount of money in they bank.
“Update: MovieX has opened a temporary forum. It is claimed there that the arrests have nothing to do with MovieX, but we have sufficient information showing that the opposite is true.”
C’mon guys just take the article down temporarily if the owners of the site already posted and said it is not true. Out of respect from not only the owners of the site but your readers, I don’t want to read articles that “might” be true.
@59 it says the were making 6000$ a month that’s 600 (of their 400.000 users) donating 10$ monthly.
moan moan moan lol.
TPB users got their downloads from Anonymous(moviex name) AKA LODER (TPB name)one of the MovieX originals so how on earth can moviex users leech from tpb users when it was uploaded to tpb by a moviex founding member. Think if you retards actually look into it correctly youll find that the leeching works both ways on the moviex tracker. Anyway your all breaking the law and there isn’t such a thing as honour among thevies, which you all are. I dont care if the founders make money or not from any site. And if you havent given them money why the feck should you.
PS please continue to post stupid remarks against X as i find you all very funny. its like watching the monkeys in the zoo but just with a slightly less amount of intelligence :)
I would like to see this so call ’sufficient information showing that the opposite is true.’ posted by the TF staff.
@55 How do you expect sites to grow by not making money or gaining revenue streams? How do you think any of the other torrent sites stay open and alive? Through wishes and magical happiness dust? No, its called advertising or charging for content. You Fail.
@63 Agree completely, if I see this evidence I will stop thinking that TF is trying to gain publicity by posting fake stories. Where did you get your evidence? What are your sources?
best site on the net,i hope this is all bull sh@t
the only problem about moviex was that it depended on the seeders from tpb
so if you have downloaded the torrent file from moviex lets say you get 10 seeders and you are the only leecher
ofc those 10 seeders also seeded to tpb peers
torrenting is all about peers exchanging information, seeders are good for keeping torrents alive only
if you have downloaded the torrent from tpb you would have been connected to 10 seeders and lets say 100 peers with whom you can do the tit4tat fun
this means that the torrents downloaded from tpb (trackers tpb and moviex when seeding) were actually faster than the torrents downloaded from moviex (tracker moviex only)
also, stop bitching about them leeching from tpb
they did not.
moviex staff uploaded and seeded the torrents to tpb too (after a few hours/days of leaving all the peers at 0%) so it’s only natural that they wanted to get something back
@58 on the trackers i frequent, i can get a movie in 5 minutes. without a rapidcrap account.
Ok…im late…
Moving on, it seems to me that this is well…scary as hell really. Lets think about it, assuming TorrentFreak is true (Which they are based on all the information thus far) then two admins have been arrested. Now I visited this said “forum” and noticed that only 1 admin is posting. This seems very odd to me, as they say no arrest has taken place. If I was the admins who were arrested, or there were rumors saying that I was, I would crush them all at once by posting a long and drawn out story on the new forum. I also see that that forum is powered by phpBB3, and thus its collecting all the IP addresses as we speak. That worries me. Is it not possible that the police (or some FBI-type group) have setup the site only to collect the users info? Even if thats not true, it seems only one admin is on the forum…
It just doesnt add up. It isnt april fools day is it?
Obviously I can’t say for sure that the site will be fine or not, but I can say that people really don’t understand moviex practices here…
You don’t have to pay to use the site. I am a member but I havn’t donated or paid any money whatsoever. I keep my ratio up and I seed back whatever I download.
The only reason they have VIPs is either for people who can’t upload (or want to pay so they don’t have to) or people who want to direct download off the site and reseed. MovieX isn’t trying to force anyone into paid membership, but they are making it a worthwhile option for those that do decide to pay.
First time I was ever glad to see a torrent site go down…
Seriously, forget all the artguments about how it’s ok for MovieX to leech off TPB since they do initial seeding – If they don’t post a certain movie *someone else will*.
I don’t give a shit about them making money, if their users are happy and get what they want then that’s fine. I DO care if they are trying to leech off public torrents, which is why I always block their tracker. Thankfully, it looks like the boys down under are going to be blocking it for me from now on =^D
MovieX has always been a very good site. I really hope they just have a HDD-problem and that they are back soon!
Moviex.info to me is a great site and if they can’t spend all the money donated at the same time they recieve it then fair enough i want them to be carefull with my money..lol…
long live moviex.info, i’m glad there being carefull with our money during this credit crunch :-) keep up the great work rama and the rest of the mods, with 400000+ user it proves that your one of the biggest and best site around
Money shouldnt be an issue really, look at The Pirate Bay, they manage to stay free. Sure you can donate to them, but I bet they dont make much through it. Money shouldnt be an issue, but thats not really the point here.
“with 400000+ user it proves that your one of the biggest and best site around”
Have you seen the 25 million TPB has daily? Less than half a million just doesnt compare to that, although it is a fair number to have. Im surprised the forum has so few members, I wonder why?
It’s the best site I have found for Direct download, any other suggestions ?
“MovieX has great seeders and even greater community.”
Except that it uses TPB’s seeders but MovieX users don’t seed back to TPB users.
“TPB users got their downloads from Anonymous(moviex name) AKA LODER (TPB name)one of the MovieX originals so how on earth can moviex users leech from tpb users when it was uploaded to tpb by a moviex founding member.”
You don’t understand how it works. People who don’t have an account with MovieX can access the MovieX tracker ONLY if they are seeding it. They cannot download from the tracker.
“Anyway your all breaking the law and there isn’t such a thing as honour among thevies, which you all are.”
Breaking the law, but not thieving.
But you’re saying “we’re doing nothing wrong. But if we were, it wouldn’t matter!”
“That worries me. Is it not possible that the police (or some FBI-type group) have setup the site only to collect the users info?”
If they have the database of people and the logs of what they downloaded, why would they care about logging people posting on a forum, which is not illegal?
About a year ago I leeched movies from this site fine but then was banned for an unknown reason.
Site is running
no, it’s offline, it will be a fucking coincidence if they actually NOT get busted, i hope not :(
# 77 ….unknown reason being leeching and not seeding i expect…it’s what happens to those who hit and run.
Once again people jump the gun with false stories about how the site was shut down. I remember when that happened to ET before they were actually shut down.
I am not sure if MovieX is for profit or not, you would need an accountant for that.
When you buy VIP you get access to the VIP area which gives you links to direct download from servers other than moviex. Any service that requires you to buy a membership to download, MovieX has always provided account access for.
They buy these memberships and give them to the community. While the membership lifespan is short they are constantly buying more so that you can download at very fast speeds. I have been a VIP for about 2 years and look forward to many more years.
I would rather download at 2mb/s from a remote file hosting company than 700kb/s from torrents.
I cannot say anything about their tracker as I have only used it once or twice.
Stop the bullshit lies, I hope they are back up soon!
27 year old man from Brisbane?
LOL
check it, ®ama what a fuckin tard
http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:qwMrfYgfak4J:www.moviex.info/forums/index.php%3Fshowuser%3D719+%C2%AEama+moviex+brisbane&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1
I am a user of the MovieX forums, and i have to say that as soon as i read the article posted in Australian newspapers, it spelled MovieX, it just clicked, you dont need someone on torrent freak to tell you its them. Although part of me is hoping that it is NOT them, the vague facts spelled out in the articles does indicate that it is indeed the admin of MovieX that has been busted, not to mention that the VIP prices correlate very closely.
I think the funds in the community bank for MovieX have been blown out of proportion. Part of the moviex VIP service is that you can use accounts, purchased with those funds to get download accounts on rapidshare, megashare, netload etc. Considering that the funds are paying for a period of access to the forums, it seems logical that you would need to keep a large supply of funds handy in which to pay for these downloading services in the future. ie a guy paying for a year of membership expects to get a years worth of access to forums and downloading accounts. I suppose theres the issue of the server costs etc etc. In the end i think it would be easy for them to justify in court that the funds were only used to pay for servers etc and not for profits, however the burnt media, depending on if it was for sale or not, may have a stronger case in court.
following previous post, there’s alot of complaining about MovieX leeching from PB peers, while i dont know enough to make any comments about this, and assuming it is true, signups are completely free, why would a user not sign up to the moviex forums, for free if its available to them? they’re not publishing torrents in order to leech from non members, personally it seems more like advertising to me, hell, its how i found out about them, i saw it as a good thing
for providing the best all together site, encompassing the best torrents from across the web and the option of vip ddl, moviex will be greatly missed!
“hey’re not publishing torrents in order to leech from non members, personally it seems more like advertising to me”
They put their tracker on torrents and only let outsiders seed to it. How could you possibly think that is advertising? If they were advertising they would just put their name everywhere.
You don’t advertise your site by putting its tracker in the tracker list and only letting non members seed to it. Advertising clearly wasn’t their goal.
what sickens me is that they hosted the files on their server.
how very stupid.
it aint p2p no more so there’s the problem.
ddl warez posted by STAFF is the mistake.
thats why Rapidshare are still in business.
its a shame the bittorent protocol got its name dragged through dirt.
Well, the admin seems to have posted a claim that they have recovered 10% of the HDDs, which means that fairly soon theyll either come back online or they will admit the truth. Either way, im looking forward to it.
Long live The Pirate Bay – Largest Bittorrent tracker in the world
fuck, I have an account there X_X
Putting aside MovieX’s questionable practices and whether or not this story’s a hoax, it looks like they’ll be coming back online soon.
*shrug*
Go figure.
THIS IS BULL SHIT!
it clearly says that they’re offline because of a Hard Drive failure!
also, they setup a forum to check the status updates of when they’re back online…
http://www2.moviex.info/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2
STOP SPREADING THESE LIES AND BS OR I MIGHT HAVE TO DDoS THIS SITE.!!
jk… or am i? (about the DDoS)
“How are Australian film producers like me meant to make a living from our films if people pirate the film and watch it for free?”
Are you stupid? How about making it not suck? The pirates aren’t the problem, you are, you greedy pig.
… Just hit me WHERE IS RAMA IN ALL THIS ? y hasnt he come forward and said somthing ….. seems like dev0 has been handling all the back lash of this artical and all the heat in general ?
weres the owner ….. ?
Moviex did nothing wrong, sharing movies, games, and apps, is not bad, it might be illegal but thats just tough shit for the rich assholes who play in the movies. OH wait if enough people pirate their movies they might not get to buy that third leer jet this year. Pirating from the rich is like having a bum steal a penny from someone who makes $250,000 a year. There is no real harm to anyone!
This website is full of shit! They were not even arrested, this is just a publicity stunt by a website who wants to be in the spotlight for a change
This is fake news. MovieX had a major HDD failure and are only temporarily down.
we shall c if moviex is gone for ever watch this page http://www.moviex.info
i say they will be back and all of this is BULLSHIT
if you go to AFACT website there is ABSOLUTLY NO MENTION OF MOVIEX BEING THE ones busted!!!!
GET YOUR (A)FACTS STRAIGHT!!!
First…
What is legal and illegal? Sure in most countries movie piracy (as we know it) is illegal in MOST countries… Not all…
Secondly…
Lost the American RIAA attitude that downloading movies is illegal. Incorrect. In many countries (including the USA!!!) it is legal to make backup copies of DATA you own or posses. DVD’s are DATA! Based on that legal tidbit, legally you can download the ISO of a movie you own and burn a backup copy. So is it the movie industry breaking the law by adding a disc copy protection so you can not legally make backups?
So before calling any site illegal or pirate or “bad” please understand laws are different in every country. In fact, one hollywood executive went on record to say copyright laws for that dvd only apply for that region. If someone was selling bootleg region 5 dvd’s in region 1 there was no laws being broke.
Yes they are losing money but honestly, after Napster opened legal CD sales went up over 20%. CD sales started to decline when Napster was shut down and Sony took it over and started charging for the same service. Hmmmm….
Back on topic…
As for Moviex… I was a member there and did try out the VIP to see what it was all about. The VIP area was designed to create an income for the site. Hey if they can make some money… why not… There is not 1 person here who will say they will turn down money…
The VIP area was not about torrents. ALL downloads in the VIP area were Direct Downloads with links to pay file sharing sites. Part of your VIP was shared accounts on the file sharing sites. The admin of the site provided free shared accounts for VIP’s to use.
Now I’ve been a torrent user for years and nothing bothers me more than slow downloads or people not seeding or “grab and dashers” and you are stuck at 95%… or my favorite… 3 days later the file is done only to find out some kid trying to be cool upped the wrong file… Everyone knows what I am talking about.
So yeah… the VIP is worth it. You know the files are legit and if not you know who to go after. Fast downloads and no worries if your ratio will get out of wack from fakes.
Thinking about it….
What does the MovieX VIP area have to do with torrents in the first place? So why is it even being discussed?
#37 Dec 04, 2008 at 19:03 by Anonymous
“This is what bittorrent is all about, sharing!”
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You’ve a warped definition of “sharing.”
MovieX leeched from peeps on other trackers without giving back.
Yeah, that’s real “sharing” of them.
shitty tracker
Why would the Australian police release this on their website?
http://www.afp.gov.au/media_releases/national/2008/men_arrested_for_distributing_14_million_movies.html
and heres more…
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24750560-3102,00.html
MovieX sucks either way, so what’s the big deal? Serves ‘em damn fucking right.
many good points here and on the temp forum but i was also a member of moviex and for more than a couple of years (which i read a post that said they werent around that long), hell i think i was right there in there first year but either way ive never paid for a subscription to anything on the net, its just to easy for a decent hacker to get your info when you do, and yet i never had a problem with there site, the only time they gave anyone a problem is with the greedy pricks that took what they wanted and left (keep your ratio up) i dont blame the site i blame the people that took and didn’t give back, epspecially this close to christmas so all you complaining back off and educate yourselfs before going shooting your mouths off
one last point if this report is true, it also says the police were tipped off, well that sounds like a rat (someone who would go to the cops) to me and it was likely a leecher, thats the person that should be worried cause if any of yous know anything about the other side of the bars your better off being them then the rat
LOL Australian Federal Police. They’re known in Oz as the Keystone cops. Last year they jailed an Indian Doctor and when they found he was innocent kept him locked up so they wouldn’t look like idiots. Their head famously said he feared his officers would be attacked by clone robot clonebots made by criminal gangs.
Google: AFP Haneef
Google: Keelty Criminal Gang Cloned Robots
“Top cop predicts robot crimewave”
#103.
Everyone has read that story… But it still does not say any names or website names so until then it’s just speculation. It might be rama.. It might not. Usually in high profile cases (such as this) they will release names.
#88 Jolly.
May I suggest going back to school for continuing education? Let me try this in a way you will understand…
NO Files Were Hosted On The MovieX Website!!! Only LINKS To Other Websites Like RapidShare Or MegaShares As Someone Above You Said!!!
MovieX only supplied the SAME service as Google in the VIP area. Access to links to download the files off other sites.
So taking that into consideration… It would be RapidShare and MegaShares hosting the files and charging a fee to download pirate/bootleg material. RapidShares head office is in Germany but BOTH RapidShare and MegaShare have satellite offices in AUSTRALIA. Can you guess where MegaShares Australian satellite office is??? Brisbane…
RapidShare and MegaShares do have a VIP service and a free service. Funny how both RapidShare, MegaShares and MovieX all charge roughly $10.00 US a month for VIP service.
Since the site is “unknown” and MegaShares has been going down a lot the last few weeks and is HOSTING pirated/bootlegged files for downloading at profit makes me wonder if it could be them.
MovieX started having the HDD issue over a week ago and again a few months ago. This is NOT a new issue at all but a common issue since they switched servers.
Does anyone have any information on the location, age and sex of the owners of MegaShares?
Again… How could they make any charges stick on MovieX when they DO NOT host any files on their site or servers? They just provide links to the files the same as Google.
So is Google next to be arrested? Probably not because it’s worth Billions in stock and would require the US government to bail them out! lmao
#104
In one story it said the Australian Police were tipped off by another LAW agency who came across the site through online searches the average internet user could do themselves and they had been watching the site for a year before involving the Australian Police.
So the “rat” would be a cop. Probably looking to download porn and got mad because his VIP account ran out and couldn’t flash his badge and get a free renewal. lol
MovieX was a great site, don’t go around saying that they were jerks for making you pay for the torrents, because they didn’t. I too was a member but never paid, it’s up to the user and they should understand what they are paying for. They had great service, great seeders, and you didn’t even need an invitation to join. So it really all up to you, don’t judge them for a choice that you made or didn’t make.
Alright Kiddies….
“OFF TO BED…!!!”
Don’t ya know if you sit in front of your Computer for too long your dick will shrink….. Now Mama Don’t want that… so SHOOOO off to bed….. Go rest you testicle….
F*ck MovieX and their bullshit leech website.
OK Keep it REAL…
1)D.e.m.o.n.o.i.d.com! is always #1
FU*K……movieX wannaBe
2)EVERY SITE is albout making $$$$
you didnt know that???
if you pay $1, 5 or $10 you the
dumb one, for V.i.P -please what a
JOKE!
TorrentFreak is to be congratulated once more for breaking this story.
It’s very reminiscent of the Demonoid/BREIN fiasco, wherein every twat & their dog were screaming “this is bullshit”. Guess what – it wasn’t.
Keep up the good work, TF.
http://groups-beta.google.com/news?ned=au&ncl=1277325845&hl=en&topic=t
P.S. Have you read the moviex temporaro forum posts yet? HILARIOUS! =] Like rats leaving a sinking ship.
TF FTW – & Fukc moviex…
=]
Serves them right for hosting a tracker in a country hostile to filesharing.
@WoW 112
read up …….tracker is hosted offshore not in oz….tracker still active
Hey guys,
What are we talking about?
Look, I got my own premiums at Rapidshare, megashares and netload.
At the same time I was paying for VIP at MovieX. The question is: what was I paying for? The possibility of dowloading? Bullshit! I was paying for info. Try to find any reliable search engine for megashares and netload links. U’ll break your neck trying to find new release links using existing megashares or netload search tool. 20 bucks for a three months VIP is not a big deal. Info costs money, you know.
So, God Bless and Hare Rama
hey guys the site is back up!
BS story then.
As per torrentfreak publishes a load of sh**
MoxieX is up and running faster and better than ever with even more members joining thanks to the publicity.
Keep up with the BS.
RAPIDSHARE ACCT,OR MOVIEX VIP ACCT,
NO FUKING DIFFERENCE SO STOP THE BITCHING AT MOVIEX YOU BUNCH OF RS ACCT HOLDERS
HAHAHAHA
What do all you homos have to say now? Serves you right for jumping to conclusions, in YO face.
Long live MovieX.
From the shoutbox (right now):
“(01:11 PM) KenakaBatman – Are the trackers down, or is it just me?
(01:11 PM) braun – Not too much to ask is it?
(01:10 PM) braun – it’s ok being sarcastic and taking the piss but this is serious and people are concerned. Please stop arseing about and make an (truthful) announcement. Play fair.”
NOT ONE POST FROM rama or his dickless brother regarding the takedown yet – weird that, eh?
It’s pretty obvious what’s happened – some other mope from moviex has cloned the site & stuck it up somewhere else.
Enjoy having ALL OF your personal info PWNED by the cops, you moviex ‘VIP’ tardlets.
BWAHAHAHAHA
@116 & @124 zarathustra
You are a complete moron, in post 116 you defend TorrentFreak, then in post 124 you disrespect them and call them homos because of the fact that they “jumped to conclusions”.
Get a life you idiot, it’s obvious you jumped to conclusions yourself in your first post, so just f@ck off and die.
Get an opinion and stick to it instead of backtracking when you find out new information.
What a wanker, your mum would be proud if she wasn’t too busy bangin’ crack addicts for dimes.
Here’s a free clue:
That was OBVIOUSLY someone posting with my nym, you COMPLETE FUKCTARD.
No offence…
I had figured that would be the case but I couldn’t help having a go at you anyway, ‘cos ya know everyone in the world wants to pretend they are you ;)
But then again, you could just be that stupid.
No offenSe…. <correct spelling dumbass.
you both should get a life.
“You’ve a warped definition of “sharing.”
MovieX leeched from peeps on other trackers without giving back.
Yeah, that’s real “sharing” of them.”
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You’ve (got) a warped definition of “sharing”.
Pirates leech from content creators without giving back.
Yeah, that’s real “sharing” of them.
Idiot.
“Pirates leech from content creators without giving back.”
I’ve taken nothing from content creators. All I download is from other people who choose to share it with me.
Have at you, bitch:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/offence
P.S. enjoy the humble pie, asshat…
129 Dec 05, 2008 at 18:44 by Anonymous
“You’ve a warped definition of “sharing.”
MovieX leeched from peeps on other trackers without giving back.
Yeah, that’s real “sharing” of them.”
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You’ve (got) a warped definition of “sharing”.
Pirates leech from content creators without giving back.
Yeah, that’s real “sharing” of them.
Idiot.
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Learn proper english, moron.
“You’ve” = “You have.”
Adding “got” is redundant and means you must be a hillbilly.
As for the not giving back to the content creators, you must be kidding. If I like it, I buy it. If I don’t, then they would never get my money in the first place.
I was a member of MovieX and I admit that I am happy to see this kind of news but when I click the link for MovieX I see the site still running. I hope they get shutdown because their upload rules were way too harsh. Not only that but a few times I was after uploading over 100% of what I downloaded from there but their site showed I uploaded less than 50% so I got banned. Please god close the site down.
PS this isnt the user name I had on there. I did create a few different accounts because of getting banned from there because their stupid site always showed the wrong ammount I uploaded.
Also to add to my last comment. I am a member of a better private torrent website which shows what I have actually uploaded and not what their tracker wants to show what I have uploaded then bans me for not having the proper upload ratio. MovieX should fix their tracker to show users uploads properly not try to leech more than is neccesary to remain a member of their site.
JustCause their seed system works perfectly fine, if you are an idiot and can’t maintain a 1:1 then you deserve to get banned.
They aren’t a hit and run site, which clearly is something you are looking for. So go back to tpb or some other crap.
@134
“Learn proper english, moron.”
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You should have capitalized “English” in that sentence.
As for “you’ve got”, it’s an example of the present conditional tense which, although uncommon in English is not grammatically improper.
Moron.
As in “You’ve got to be kidding” but not for possessive.
Again, learn how to write without being redundant.
Not capitalizing the word “English” is a typo, not a grammatical error.
Hillbilly stumpfucker.
@137 read my post before accusing me of meing a moron. With MovieX my real ratio didnt show what it actualy was on their site. I had a 100% upload on one torrent but it only showed 50% upload. So no their sites tracker doesnt work flawlessly.
Also I am a member of another private torrent site which their system works flawlessly and shows what my upload ratio is properly. I have a 165% upload on one of my torrents thene and the second torrent I downloaded from there has a 125% upload which shows as 166% up and 125% up.
On another account I had with Movie X I had a 80% upload after 3 days but their site showed 69% uploaded and I got banned after 24 hours but I kept my upload going but my ratio never went any higher than 69%
Also this news news item goes to show how disrespectful some of the other MovieX people are. some are nice guys but most are abusive just like yourself. You just gotta learn not to post nothing but thanks in a forum post/
So I will be happy to see them shut down. Theyre nothing but abusive Leechers.
MovieX Leeches From The BitTorrent Community:
http://torrentfreak.com/moviex-leeches-from-bittorrent-community-071201/
A fact that has been well-known for a long, long time.
It’s why people edit their tracker URLs to *remove* MovieX.
What your ratio on MovieX may be is irrelevant.
You lot are jealous of MovieX.
MovieX Rules
The AFACT Director is a sensible guy, too bad the MPAA goons can’t learn from him.
JustCause,
You have to consider the size of the files you were uploading and downloading also. In other words, if you DL a 700MB file and have a share ration of 2:1 for that file, but DL a 4GB file, and only have a 1:2 ratio, then your overall ratio is only 3:4.
As for everyone who is bitching about paying for VIP on MovieX, I pay $17 for 5 months. That works out to $3.20/mo. I think that is more than fair to pay for what I get with access to RapidShare and Netload accts, not having to worry about fake files, torrents stuck on 70%, old links that no longer exist, and people uploading crappy versions and passing them off as DVD rips or screeners!
What I also get is the ability to requests specific files that are hard or impossible to find elsewhere, and not having to worry bc my IP/modem seem to have difficulty with uploading content. With VIP, I’ve never had the problem of my modem shutting down bc my IP wants to limit bandwidth (even though they swear they don’t!)
It seems the coppers couldn’t take moviex down but the staff of MovieX is doing what the cops couldn’t do.
Seems there is some sort of power struggle among MovieX and all their top uploaders have jumped ship and made a new site. They have been removing all their posts.
Unknown if the new site is a pirate site or not but 50% of the staff have left or in the midst of leaving it seems and there is daily fights on the MovieX forums.
Apparently (lol) all the MovieX peeps who said the TF story was fake are eating crow now. Seems it is posted in the VIP forums the TRUTH that the Rama brothers were in fact arrested and another admin (devo) is running the smoke show (website)
Why lie when you know the truth is out there.
R.I.P. MovieX and V.I.P.
well that about says it all. the truth would ahev saved the site. but without trust and truth. we walk no run. as like monty pythons holy grail. “Runaway runaway”.
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