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QuickSilverScreen Streaming Links Site Calls It Quits

In the wake of the Megaupload raids and attacks on domains in the US and elsewhere, the administrator of yet another site has decided to call it quits.

QuickSilverScreen (QSS) first appeared in 2004 but faced its first legal action 2 years later in 2006.

Twentieth Century Fox asked the site to take immediate action to stop infringements of Fox copyrights. The site’s operator approached the EFF for help but was advised that the site might indeed be breaking the law.

QSS was owned by a guy called Steve Thompson but according to a source close to the site, in the wake of these threats he gave the site away to two individuals known as “Neels and BigCheese”.

The pair ran the site up until 2010 when the site changed hands again. A year later it was transferred to yet another new owner.

According to our source, QuickSilverScreen had over 600,000 members but despite the site’s traffic health, the new owner has also had enough. Fearing prosecution he shut the site down last week.

A new site, DailyFlix.net, sprung up as a replacement and apparently grabbed 1,000 new members in the 24 hours following the closure of QSS.

How long it will last remains to be seen. For these kinds of sites the current climate is both tough and unpredictable.

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  • Guest

    Damn pussies. MAFIAA is winning.

    • http://twitter.com/icanhazsake Ninja

      Nop, they are not. The war is won, by the ppl. It’s just that we’ll see lost battle and innocent blood spilled before the end.

      You can’t win when 99% don’t agree with you. You either give them the rings or you’ll lose your fingers along with the rings.

      • Anonymous

        lmfao what?

  • PlatinumC

    Yeah, its unfortunate that not everyone are able to stand their ground in this war, and are giving mobsters an edge.

  • http://twitter.com/happyizpunjai happy

    i kinda wish there are al kida now because then the government will focus on them instead of the internet.

  • TV Network

    Won’t be closing my website until I get a court order demanding me to do so… Screw SOPA, ACTA and the MAFIAA.

    • TVNETWORKDOWN

      Or the FBI making a local law enforcement kick down your door and have you extradited to the US where you will be tried for aiding and abetting copyright infringement and face up to 5 years in a max-security prison where you will fight for survival. Have fun.

      And QSS is just rational. No one wants to go to jail because a bunch of dimwits on the Internet say they’re pussies and don’t do shitall themselves.

      • Guest

        Exactly, I was investigated by the BPI and I closed my site down in fear of a court case. It wasn’t worth the risk when I was still going to school :-

      • TV Network

        I understand what you’re saying – of course there are these risks but I was fully aware of them when I created the website too.

        No backing down now just because Mega sites got raided.

        • TVNETWORKDOWN

          Sure that’s your “problem” if you want to be patriotic and serve people the way you are doing it right now. Just so you know – The same people using your site will give you a “5 minutes”, ‘awwww’….and then go: ‘too bad’ and move on. Look what happened to the TV Shack guy. No one gives a rats arse about him besides his own mother.

          You’re not a pussy if you close down. You just think what’s best for yourself and that no one is going to pay your lawyer fees when they do come after you eventually. Some people have a very difficult time seeing that. “Oh spilled blood in the cause of fighting the Goliath”, but it is easy to say if you’re not the one who’s going to do time. Fucking hypocrites.

        • Guest

          @TVNETWORKDOWN

          Just because you don’t care/can rationalise it, doesn’t mean the community doesn’t.I fucking care when any freedom is curtailed.
          Yes people move on. What else can they do when the ‘democracy’ that governments preach is a hollow vessel, corrupt beyond measure, and unaccountable?

        • TVNETWORKDOWN

          @GUEST: Anyone who cares for their ACTUAL freedom (i.e. being able to walk out of their door and go down to the supermarket, to the nightclub, to the sportsclub etc.) and is running an actual torrent site, cyberlock or TV site (with 3rd party links), either have to have balls of steels and hope that your “non profit” website will not be targeted (even if it is profitable with a minimum wage less than a toilet cleaner, someone will still point a finger and talk shit) or you live in a country where law enforcement cannot be told to kick down your door and put you in jail and then have an extradition treaty executed due to a “terror act” signed years ago.

          Yes, people move on….Here’s what you “forgot”…They “forget”. They don’t stand up and protest for the TV Shack guy do they? All they do is sit back in their couches, turn on the BBC and see this young 23 year old about to get a free ticket to an US prison after you used his service. Either you’re an unappreciative fuckwit or you’re just another person who just doesn’t care – so why should he have cared for your needs? ….Now we’re going back to the supply and demand of websites and people.

          Let’s not forget all the thousands of BTT users who had to pay up to those corrupt fascist companies. No one stood up for them – Sail your own boat in your own pond.

          …So here’s my conclusion: No matter how much big of a “pussy” these site operators are…They’re less than the fuckwit sitting behind the screen using the service and bitching like a little kid because he cannot freeload from that site anymore.

        • http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell

          TV, you are an idiot supreme. The fact is that a lot of people are still protesting those things….. the problem is that when the proper solution: violent revolution…. comes up? Other people get weak in the knees and say “WE SHOULDN’T HAVE TO HAVE/DO THAT!”

          Sorry, but yeah, you do.

        • TVNETWORKDOWN

          @ Christopher Kidwell:

          You can be the idiot supreme. Now you’re talking about violent confrontation ….With who? You are going to show up at the office of the MPAA and RIAA and protest? Or are you going to show up with pitchforks and firebombs? This isn’t the jasmine revolution in which the people have been oppressed for centuries. Violent confrontation between the people and RIAA/MPAA will not happen for at least a few more decades. Try to get that into your skull before you go about telling who’s an idiot.

          Now take a look at the TV Shack guy and just nod and say…. “What can I do?”

          As much as I hate wtf they’re doing and wtf they’re paying off…then there’s not much we can do.

        • T~Shamika Laquita “Lil Bit”

          I have to commend you here. I read an article previously on tf or sharkys blog (sharky went 404 and let his site expire after never updating it). It said thought that those who just use whatever as an excuse to close their site probably were thinking anyways of doing so….. just needed an excuse… It said the ones that are going to be vigilant and stand and no intimidation fuck the fbi it said are the ones that are going to win for the people as the others are profiteers or not true pirates/fuck mafiaa patrons.

        • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sterling-Hudson/643440416 Sterling Hudson

          what is ur website?

      • Hosa Cool

        GFY and incase ur dumbpussy ass dont understand GO.FUCK.YOURSELF.
        u r not welcome here at all. if u dont like the majority opinion GTFO

  • Mwhahaha

    I feel like a Driver watching farriers going round smashing up Model-T’s

  • http://twitter.com/happyizpunjai happy

    Why do they expect money from people that don’t have money?

    • Guest

      Because greed is all-consuming and insatiable. It will even feed off the dead…
      this is made possible through the use of that appalling thing called ‘copyright’.

      • http://twitter.com/happyizpunjai happy

        Remember that all .com and .net are in U.S jurisdiction

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  • Anonymous

    Man thats just not right, whats up with all these folks quitting?
    anon-puter.tk

    • Asdf

      If you are bothered by it you are welcome to start your own. TVNETWORKDOWN actually has a point. Most people are system abusers, and do not care even for a second to try to help anybody who gets into trouble, innocent or otherwise.

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  • QSSsmartMove

    penis penis penis LOL

  • Sthhlltt

    I dont know, nor care what off topic comments you guys are leaving, but qss went to shit the DAY the new owner/ owners (previous, ripple, whatever the hell his name was…) took over the site, the idiot said alot of things in the PUBLIC forum, that an admin shouldnt talk about with people, let alone in the forums where anyone can read it……
    And for the record, Dailyflix did not rise from any ashes, or start up when qss closed the doors, it was opened months before that, by the people who really cared about the direction qss was going, and could do nothing about it…… not to mention that people that had invested there time, creativity, and patients into the site didnt want to get mixed up in the admins stupidity…….

  • BeinAnAXXO

    So true.I’ve been member of qss from the start along with other free sites so I’m not too hurt that it’s gone I’ve combine all the sites I know and it’s like qss never shutdown.I’m just piss at the fact that one minute it’s there and the next minute it’s gone with no fuckin@! warning what kind of asshole does that.I’ve donated,posted plenty of thread and became apart of the staff.Thanx for the heads up! and as for dailyflix,yeah,I’ve been there a few years ago it’s a honest site,but it’s slow as fuck and still slow as fuck.Still I’m good,know other sites that work faster than qss did with this last few owner/admin it had.That’s only cause the staff for qss became staff the other sites, guess they saw what was coming long before we did and some stayed loyal til the end,others retired T_T(R.I.P. LADYHAWk) ;_;

  • behindthescenes

    @ sangtooo
    They didnt quit they were forced too! Learn the facts before you start shouting off your mouth! I was behind the scenes at QSS for a number of years, from the beginning to around 2010. I know exactly what pressures they were put under.
    Do you actually realise how many servers we had and how many times we had to change because the companies refused to host us any more?
    BTW in my opinion QSS went way down hill when Neels and Bigcheese gave up

  • BRAVEHEART

    as long as people such as TVNETWORKDOWN exist and effect our community we are in danger. we have to purify ourselves from such filth and cowardliness.

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