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RIAA Starts Going After BitTorrent Sites

For years BitTorrent sites have remained untouched by the RIAA’s legal battles, but recent court filings indicate that this may change. After settling their dispute with LimeWire earlier this year the RIAA is now targeting several BitTorrent indexers. The record industry group has filed a complaint at the U.S. District Court of Columbia and has obtained subpoenas to reveal the identities of individuals behind three large torrent sites.

riaa logoHistorically the RIAA’s litigation campaigns have focused mainly on individual file-sharers and P2P-software and services such as LimeWire.

Unlike their counterparts at the MPAA, BitTorrent sites have not been prime targets for the recording industry association’s lawyers. However, recent court filings obtained by TorrentFreak show that the RIAA might have just changed course.

The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has granted a request from the RIAA to subpoena the privacy protection services utilized by three large torrent sites. The site owners use these services to hide their personal details from otherwise publicly available WHOIS domain records, but the RIAA wants to know who they are dealing with.

The targeted sites are Monova.org, Bitsnoop.com and Limetorrents.com, which all have hundreds of thousands of daily visitors. According to the RIAA, these sites are infringing on the copyrights of many artists.

“We believe your service is hosting the above-referenced website on its network. This website offers direct links to files containing sound recordings for other users to download by such artists as Lady Gaga, Micheal Jackson, Coldplay, Madonna and Kanye West,” the RIAA writes in a letter to Whoisguard.com.

“As stated in the attached subpoena, you are required to disclose to the RIAA information sufficient to identify the infringer. This would include the individual’s IP-address and e-mail address,” the RIAA adds.

One of the torrent site operators targeted by the RIAA told TorrentFreak that the subpoena comes as a surprise. He always responded swiftly to RIAA’s DMCA requests while the court documents suggest that he hasn’t been cooperative at all.

“The RIAA has sent us several DMCA requests in the past and we always honored these,” Bitsnoop’s owner informed us. “Apparently that wasn’t enough, so now they pull this stunt.”

At this point it is unknown what the RIAA is planning to do once they obtain the personal information of the site’s owners. Although it could theoretically be the beginning of a full-fledged litigation campaign against the torrent sites, it seems more likely that the subpoenas will be used to pressure and threaten operators.

During the past year several music industry associations in Europe and Asia have sent requests to domain registrars with a similar objective. The ultimate goal is to make it harder for BitTorrent site operators to continue their business by putting pressure on them, and the companies that provide services to these sites.

A good example is the following sentence in the letter to Whoisguard.com, which goes far beyond the attached subpoena for information.

“We are asking for your immediate assistance in stopping this [linking to torrent files] unauthorized activity. Specifically, we request that you remove the infringing files from the system, or that you disable access to the infringing files, and that you inform the site operator of the illegality or his or her conduct.”

Whatever the true motivation of the RIAA is, with the recent news about domain seizures, extradition requests and these recent subpoenas, operating a BitTorrent site has become a stressful job. Whether this will have the desired outcome for the music industry group in the long run remains to be seen.

TorrentFreak asked the RIAA to comment on our finding but we have not received a response.


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  • anon

    All these are US controlled domain names. Looks like we’ll see a mass exodus of torrent sites from US domains.

    • Ksmith

      It’s all good. The Internet is like a river. The copywrong peeps might build a levee , soon enough some basementfag will work around DNS, and flood the Internet will torrents.

      Good strategy for RIAA, I will give them that.

      • JohnMayor

        Guys, does anyone have any info on why racing-underground.com is down?

        • Boiler

          JohnMayor….check your email.

    • Guest

      Ernesto, *Michael* Jackson

    • R7

      Copywrong…i like this name for those bastards.

    • Reagancon315

      Yup. Kickasstorrents, for example changed their to .ph and torrentz.eu. RIAA are not the brightest people.

    • http://crashsuit.blogspot.com crashsuit

      +1, I came here for this. Quote: “… it seems more likely that the subpoenas will be used to pressure and threaten operators.” More like, pressure operators to switch away from .com/.net addresses, problem solved.

    • Haxor

      good to see the usa is gonna have a vibrant economy LOL
      but its just a text file…

  • Derp

    And what exactly obliges non-US sites to honor their request?

    Oh wait, nothing.

    • http://twitter.com/icanhazsake Ninja

      That considering Bitsnoop is pretty much legal since they comply with DMCA requests.

      MAFIAA are morons. They’ll eat you even if you cooperate after all they always want MORE (Mr Smith style).

      • http://tinyurl.com/ANoiXioNA-personal-info ANoiXioNA

        Bitsnoop being on the list really surprised me……It’s a server bot. like google.
        All it does is index other sites.

      • Anonymous

        A service does need to apply and to be approved to be an official DMCA protected service. We have heard before that torrent index sites get rejected but I have no idea if Bitsnoop is official or not.

        If not then a court may respect their DMCA take-down action but under mass infringement it is not quite the same thing.

  • Lol

    The .p2p DNS is needed now more than ever. (http://dot-p2p.org/index.php?title=Main_Page)

    What happened to it? Peter Sunde really needs to start working towards this, it’s been a while. Hurry up! :P

    • Mike

      If that works the piracy world would be much harder to stop regarding P2P. It may become impossible. The only way they could stop it is to shut the internet down.

      As I have said many times before in their greed business jumped on what is essentially a stack of very open protocols. Now they are so wide spread to stop them is almost impossible. Areas like DNS can be circumvented like any single stack protocol if the desire was there to do so.

      No entity could build a competing closed source internet and expect users; that is how they should have built it poor profit mongers lol.

      Easier to buy laws. But there are things laws can’t cope with. There is an ultimiate opportunity with the web and projects like this to spaghetti the legal system.

      • http://twitter.com/icanhazsake Ninja

        Many technologies were developed to fulfill the lack of alternatives when MAFIAA and the likes pushed in. .p2p (or whatever) will just fill the current gap. We needed decentralized ways to share and they were born. Now we need decentralized DNS systems to avoid censorship and something will be born – actually there are projects like freenet and MAFIAA should be fearing that and keeping quiet not to spark the next revolution. In the end, MAFIAA’s pressure is only acting as a driving force for our evolution. For that, maybe we should thank them.

        • http://tinyurl.com/ANoiXioNA-personal-info ANoiXioNA

          +1
          Necessity is the mother of all invention

        • Susan

          yes i use freenet everyday and download captain planet

        • Susan

          yes i use freenet everyday and download captain planet

        • Anon

          @ Susan,
          Please don’t download Captain Planet.

  • the riaa is the illuiminati

    Those artists they all listed? Pro illuminati artists!

    • the riaa is the illuminati

      or illuminati controlled. which ever way you want to look at it.

      • the riaa is the illuminati

        sorry, I meant I already know this part I meant to say, I called this obvious.
        “What YOU have to realize is that there is both legitimacy AND false information. Don’t believe everything you hear.”

        You see, you don’t even know me, but you’re telling me how to think. haha. That makes me not much of you. naive perhaps.

        Anyways, I said what I want to say. You guys are obviously scared of critical thought, and makes me wonder of your intentions. You are all ignoring that neither of us should be credible. You are all trying to take credit for being the credible ones. When ppl think they know it all, that is when they know precisely NOTHING.

        See all you left side brainers later.

        ;)

    • Blackplan

      The Illuminati are Just people with Lamps.

      • the riaa is the illuminati

        feel free to fool yourself, you can’t fool me though. I forgot, the world is a shiny and happy place.

        • the riaa is the illuminati

          oh btw, here are the 25 goals of those ppl with lamps.

          1. All men are more easily inclined towards evil than good.
          2. Preach Liberalism
          3. Use the idea of freedom to bring about ‘class wars’
          4. Any and all means should be used to reach the Illuminati Goals as they are justified.
          5. The right to lie in force.
          6. The power of our resources must remain invisible until the very moment it has gained the strength that no cunning or force can undermine it.
          7. Avocation of mob psychology to control the masses.
          8. Use alcohol, drugs, corruption and all forms of vice to systematically corrupt the youth of the nation.
          9. Seize property by any means
          10. Use of slogans such as equity, liberty, fraternity delivered into the mouths of the masses in psychological warfare
          11. War should be directed so that the nations on both sides are placed further in debt and peace conferences conducted so that neither combatant obtains territory rights.
          12. Members must use their wealth to have candidates chosen and placed in public office who will be obedient to their demands and will be used as pawns in the game by those behind the scenes. Their advisors will have been reared and trained from childhood to rule the affairs of the world.
          13. Control the press.
          14. Agents will come forward after fermenting traumatic situations and appear to be the saviors of the masses.
          15. Create industrial depression and financial panic, unemployment, hunger, shortage of food and use this to control the masses or mob and then use the mob to wipe out all those who stand in the way.
          16. Infiltrate into the secret Freemasons to use them for Illuminati purposes.
          17. Expound the value of systematic deception, use high sounding slogans and phrases and advocate lavish promises to the masses even though they cannot be kept.
          18. Detail plans for resolutions, discuss the art of ‘street fighting’ which is necessary to bring the population into speedy subjection.
          19. Use agents as advisors behind the scenes after wars and use secret diplomacy to gain control.
          20. Establish huge monopolies that lean toward world government control.
          21. Use high taxes and unfair competition to bring about economic ruin by control of raw materials. Organize agitation among the workers and subsidize their competitors.
          22. Build up armaments with Police forces and Soldiers sufficient to protect our needs.
          23. Members and leaders of the one world government would be appointed by the directors.
          24. Infiltrate into all classes and levels of society and government for the purpose of fooling, bemusing and corrupting the youthful members of society by teaching them theories and principles that we know to be false.
          25. National and International laws should be used to destroy civilization and enslave and control the people.

        • Blackplan

          /tinfoilhat

        • the riaa is the illuminati

          That’s what they want you to think. Do you honestly think I made this up? Google the 13 bloodlines of the illuminati and read for yourself. Please, don’t take my word for it. Learn about the

          The Astor Bloodline
          The Bundy Bloodline
          The Collins Bloodline
          The DuPont Bloodline
          The Freeman Bloodline
          The Kennedy Bloodline
          The Li Bloodline
          The Onassis Bloodline
          The Reynolds Bloodline
          The Rockefeller Bloodline
          The Rothschild Bloodline
          The Russell Bloodline
          The Van Duyn Bloodline

          Tin foil hat, huh? You think I pulled this out of thin air as well?

        • Razza

          No, we don’t think you pulled it out of thin air. We think someone else pulled it out of thin air, and you’re just following them.

          You look at people with people with money and power and ascribe motives to them. You see problems in the world and assume someone must be orchestrating them. You assume connections where none exist. You make claims, but don’t have any proof beyond someone else’s accusation.

        • the riaa is the illuminati

          Okay then. I have no proof! Perfect. Read the books and tell me why I have no proof. Please, read from every side and then make up your mind. Critical thinking is awesome, and I encourage you to find out for yourself. I’m glad you don’t take my word for it. Too many ppl do that these days. Kudos to you, just please do your own research to back up what you are thinking. Don’t trust anyone on the internet. Just like I don’t trust you. Because, I have never met you.

        • Noah C.

          The Illuminati are absolutely pointless. Sure, they may have high members in the Government, but those people are usually power-hungry by themselves and will join and become anything they need to to convince themselves that they’re going to be president etc.

          The Rosacrucians, Illuminati, Free Masons, I could go on, and on, and on, and on about how there’s secret organizations supposedly controlling the world.

          What YOU have to realize is that there is both legitimacy AND false information. Don’t believe everything you hear. It’s a bad way to live life. Otherwise you would believe Jesus is going to return with Aliens on December 21st 2012, have an epic battle (that involves Russia being a total CIA conspiracy) with the Illuminati and the 1st world countries and will somehow raise the Mayans from the dead, and the Mayans will conquer the world (and kill all the Spaniards) and soon after Xenu will return from his Space Voyage, rescue all the Scientologist, meanwhile the Mormons all all having endless celestial sex to replace all the Thetans that have moved on from the world, Satan turns out to be black (and Jesus’ brother) and Vishnu will come back as a goat and rape George Bush in the ass.

          All conspiracy theories. Yes, exaggerated for comic purposes, but you get the point.

          Oh, the the Aliens will be commanded by Michael Bainwol, with Jesus, of course.

        • the riaa is the illuminati

          LOL, Like I don’t already know that. That was kind of a captain obvious. I’m studying this daily and am using all sources as info, then use a wonderful thing called my brain to figure it out. You haven’t told me anything I already know. Notice I’m the only one not trying to be the ultimate credible source, while you are all desperately trying to gain credibility for yourselves. I’m just pointing to the ppl who have Phd’s and life work in these fields. You all make me laugh a little. You’re all scared of critical thinking. And the illuminati runs the world. Rockefeller and rothschild are the leaders. The gray family is the one that interests me. They are the intelligence bloodline, and heir to the reynolds tobacco fortune.

        • the riaa is the illuminati

          sorry, I meant I already know this part I meant to say, I called this obvious.
          “What YOU have to realize is that there is both legitimacy AND false information. Don’t believe everything you hear.”

          You see, you don’t even know me, but you’re telling me how to think. haha. That makes me not much of you. naive perhaps.

          Anyways, I said what I want to say. You guys are obviously scared of critical thought, and makes me wonder of your intentions. You are all ignoring that neither of us should be credible. You are all trying to take credit for being the credible ones. When ppl think they know it all, that is when they know precisely NOTHING.

          See all you left side brainers later.

          ;)

    • Guest

      I am with you on that. fucking Zionists

      • the riaa is the illuminati

        The word zionist had been raped by the Rothschild family. They have raped the world, really.

  • Anon

    interesting, the district court gave out a subpoena on false grounds, seeing that they clearly state, that they offer direct links to files containing X or Y, which makes no sense, since Torrents contain nothing more but Metadata, unless they think that the scamvertorials with [FULL SPEED] and [DIRECT DOWNLOAD] are real, but in that case, othey seriously do something wrong

    • Noah C.

      Oh, and 45938MBPS! FREE! DUDEZ!

  • Blackplan

    On a more serious note. I was under the impression that IP addresses were not considered valid evidence? I don’t see what the RIAA are going to achieve by this to be honest.

    Well, aside from wasting bandwidth sending emails to VPNs or People with open wireless. =|

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mathew-Lisett/666201726 Mathew Lisett

      as far as from what im reading, its not their ip they want its the whole private data, so basically if the person has their name adress etc then thats what they are after. but you are correct there was a judge that deemed having just an ip adress invalidites any claim to go after the accused

    • the riaa is the illuminati

      whoops, I couldn’t reply at the end of that thread so I’ll repost here.

      Tin foil hat? That’s what they want you to think. Do you honestly think I made this up? Google the 13 bloodlines of the illuminati and read for yourself. Please, don’t take my word for it. Learn about the

      The Astor Bloodline
      The Bundy Bloodline
      The Collins Bloodline
      The DuPont Bloodline
      The Freeman Bloodline
      The Kennedy Bloodline
      The Li Bloodline
      The Onassis Bloodline
      The Reynolds Bloodline
      The Rockefeller Bloodline
      The Rothschild Bloodline
      The Russell Bloodline
      The Van Duyn Bloodline

      Tin foil hat, huh? You think I pulled this out of thin air as well?

      • the riaa is the illuminati

        or are you just going to write this off again with being incredibly vague.

        • Ranpel

          If, in fact, that video (easily found with a search) that has a record time three months prior to 9/11, then that would seem to clearly indicate some level of complicit knowledge of those events. “LUC%sSY! YOU GOT SOME ES’PLAININ TO DO!

          Hell, even stopping for a couple of minutes to think about these implications and what they imply one, all too easily, weaves a quite feasible thread through the realities that have and are evolving around us.

          TERROR = LOSS OF FREEDOMS OF MOVEMENT

          PIRACY = LOSS OF FREEDOM TO EXPRESS/ACCESS

          DRUG WAR = HEAVY ARMOUR

          MEDIA CONTROL = silence

          What next? What will you stand for next? What will be the next move that pushes the creation and the stores of pikes and what will follow that will break the dikes? God? Would all this then not imply some extreme reverence is a twisted interpretation of God derived from these lamp bearers?

          Hmm… yeah, I’m thinking we need more wiki-leaks, more hacks-n-cracks and many, many, many more dark tunnels.

          r

      • Blackplan

        Yes, Yes I do. You’re the funniest kind of conspiracy theorist. ‘Google’ is not a reliable source of information. It’s a good way of *finding* reliable information, but really.

        I don’t see much point arguing with you, because no doubt I’m either part of the conspiracy/ignorant, so I’ll happily continue to troll people who pop up with silly comments like yours.

        • the riaa is the illuminati

          Okay then find books by fritz springmeier, william cooper, John Todd etc. Read from them. I was just telling you where you could find the books online. PLEASE! let’s stop arguing. Will you at least check out the books?

        • the riaa is the illuminati

          And you are definitely right. The internet is not a place to be trusted. Please, have the mentality that I don’t know what I’m talking about.m Read for yourself, and THEN denounce it with detail.

        • the riaa is the illuminati

          If you comment right away, I’m just going to assume you don’t want to read the books, and are scared of overall knowledge. Let’s just stop arguing. One of the 25 goals is to rule with mob mentality. I’m just trying top be your friend, and warn you about who actually runs the world.

        • the riaa is the illuminati

          Oh sorry, I also forgot Jordan Maxwell and David Icke. They are also good authors, but don’t have as good of an overall grasp of ancient history like the three I mentioned above. At the very least it’s interesting reading.

        • Friend of the People

          Well, I don’t know much about any of these people except Icke and Todd. I do know that Icke is a proponent of the “cancer is a fungus” theory, which is laughably and provably false, as well as the theory that reptilians control the planet, which seems just silly. I really want to hear that theory defended, but I’ve never met someone who will.

          About Todd; All I know about him is the fact that he attributed all human suffering and unhappiness to demons and witches. I don’t quite understand it to be honest. The only thing I really remember from what I read from him was something about never touching a Star of David because it could summon demons into you. Well, I also know that he had paranoia (often hearing gunshots outside of his church speeches) and that his own accounts contradicted themselves between speeches and interviews.

          Maybe people do just take it for granted that the world works the way the way they think it does, but you’re not doing much better. You’re taking it for granted that it works the way Icke and Todd say it does. Not trying to be rude; that’s just how it looks to me.

        • the riaa is the illuminati

          All I’m going to say is, read everything, and believe nothing unless you can prove it in your own research. And I don’t think you’re trying to be rude. I fully agree that David Icke doesn’t have it all right, but he does have a lot of it right. We should stop focusing on what little parts may be wrong and using it as a stumbling block. This is where critical thinking comes in. If you read about the majestic 12 project, it really starts to make you wonder. If I had to put validation into one author that has the best overall grasp of what’s going on? It would be Fritz Spriongmeier. The one theorist who is currently jailed by the american government for conspiring to rob a bank. I’m not here to argue, but discuss rather, and I have no problem discussing when ppl start giving detailed reasons of why they have problems believing some stuff. I am ALWAYS up for an intelligent convo. But the internet has given anyone that wants it, a megaphone to say whatever they want. It’s getting tougher to discuss stuff like this, without it turning into a battle of wills.

        • Ven

          I think we believe what we can logically defend. In this case, we can’t logically defend Fritz Springmeier (a nut who bombs video stores and thinks satanic forces would use rich families instead of pop music to control the world), William Cooper (all of his evidence is anecdotal or resultant of his experience allegedly working for naval intelligence), and John Todd (A man who has been shown to have lied extensively about his past, including a history of mental instability).

          I’m sorry, but logic says these men and their theories are based in fantasy and paranoia. Do I believe rich families will spend their time and money trying to get richer and more powerful? Yes. Does that mean there really is a plot to drop the middle class and turn the world into a slave planet? Highly unlikely.

          Logic and reason based in fact say no. Smoking pot might say yes, but not logic.

        • the riaa is the illuminati

          LIKE I said, don’t take my word for it. And you obviously aren’t. But beware of ppl who immediately denounce things. Like I said, ppl shouldn’t have stuff they are having trouble comprehending as a stumbling block.

          “Listen to everyone, read everything, believe nothing unless you can prove it in your own research.”

          The main point is? Neither of us can be listed as credible. I can say this, why can’t you? No one should believe either of us, but rather they should read and make up their own mind. Would you at least agree to that?

        • the riaa is the illuminati

          What really seems to be the theme here is don’t study on your own. Just denounce them due to a 3 minute comment. That is the scariest ideology at all. What do you have against critical thinking?

        • the riaa is the illuminati

          Whoever believes either of us by just reading these comments is quite naive.

        • the riaa is the illuminati

          For all I know, you could work for the illuminati. That’s the scary part of the internet. Which is why we should just all go back to books. The internet has become one of the worst places to learn now. We have become a buzzword headline reading only society. Enrich your mind, and get off the internet for your learning. It’s all bias anyways….

        • Pres. Barack Obama

          Hello. This is President Barack Obama, leader of the Illuminati. I have come to cease all of you assets and shut down your copyright infringing activities. And my penis is 80x larger.

          Thank you. That is all.

    • Noah C.

      I was under the impression a court case already ruled than an IP-Address is not a person.

  • Username1

    I download what I want anytime I want and ain’t nothing changing.
    I’ve never had a problem getting what I want since forever.

    And they have been fighting for a long time now.
    I always read about them fighting and even getting a victory in some cases, yet in reality ,
    it has never affected my ability to use the internet as freely as I want to.

    I have NEVER used itunes or netflix or steam , but somehow , I get what I need from the internet
    every time for as long as I can remember.
    How is this possible ? If the RIAA and it’s partner companies
    are successfully controlling the internet , how is it that I don’t seem to notice in real day to day internet use ?

    They’ve been fighting for a really long time now , and I still can’t tell.

    My imagination has the RIAA and it’s partner companies ,as a little midget being held by the head by a giant,
    as they swing their arms in frustration trying to fight.

    • FuzzyDuck

      They are like fighting against the tide.

      With a bit of luck, they’ll stand their ground and drown.

  • wizzie

    Question:

    How come RIAA and MPAA has legal standing when they sue for copyright infringement when they don’t own the copyright of the products?

    Take the Righthaven case for example. The federal Judge called it “disingenuous, if not outright deceitful” since Righthaven don’t own the copyright, yet are the ones filing the lawsuit.

    The Judge said “a copyright owner cannot assign a bare right to sue.”. Isn’t that whats going on here with RIAA and MPAA since they don’t own the copyright, yet seem to have the right to sue?

    Or have I misunderstood something in how they’ve structured the organisations?

    • Kz750b

      Because the RIAA never sues for copyright infringement, it’s always the member companies (Sony, Disney, et al, ) that sue

    • Anonymous

      I like how the RIAA state in their letter that they handle 90% of all music in the United States but in their following letter they then state 85%. We can only hope they write more letters when losing 5% each time would soon make them not exist.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1100028200 Michael Vario
  • tenej

    When artist steal songs from other countries – that is legal
    When producers steals musical spots – that is legal
    Only when normal peoples download something for their own use is not legal
    I agree that they need to caught peoples who trying to selling copyrighted products, but they can fuck off from p2p. That is like you buy a car, and if someone else drive that car, you broke the law…because he need to buy a car too

    Dont know for other, but in my country singers, actors…dont pay any tax for country, because they are “artists”. they have like a 10x larger salary (with concerts, club shows…) than a normal peoples. And when they steal song from other singer…that is cool, but if normal peoples have his songs in “unauthorized” way…that is crime???

    Just can say: FUCK YOU RIAA and all others companies who “protect” copyrights.

  • tenej

    When artist steal songs from other countries – that is legal
    When producers steals musical spots – that is legal
    Only when normal peoples download something for their own use is not legal
    I agree that they need to caught peoples who trying to selling copyrighted products, but they can fuck off from p2p. That is like you buy a car, and if someone else drive that car, you broke the law…because he need to buy a car too

    Dont know for other, but in my country singers, actors…dont pay any tax for country, because they are “artists”. they have like a 10x larger salary (with concerts, club shows…) than a normal peoples. And when they steal song from other singer…that is cool, but if normal peoples have his songs in “unauthorized” way…that is crime???

    Just can say: FUCK YOU RIAA and all others companies who “protect” copyrights.

  • Domestic Terrorist# 846238756

    Letter-bomb the offices already for fucks sake…

  • Predator

    “Lady Gaga, Micheal Jackson, Coldplay, Madonna and Kanye West”

    Interesting. These corporate parasites sited all the most crappy stuff for brain damaged morons in their lawsuit. They forgot Britney slut though.

    • Jmorse43508

      Then I guess I have nothing to worry about, since I don’t download songs from any of those cookie-cutter, auto-tuned crappy artists anyway, and never will.

    • Jmorse43508

      Then I guess I have nothing to worry about, since I don’t download songs from any of those cookie-cutter, auto-tuned crappy artists anyway, and never will.

  • Randy Lahey

    Officers cock-knuckles and dick-lock are on the case!

    • FuckThaPolice

      ITYM: Cock-Knocker & Dick-Licker.

      ^^

  • Jamaicaman
  • Foff

    If isp’s continue to not protect ip’s then there is obviously a market for a service that will. Right now any admin ip’s ought to be registered to an anonymous shell corp. That way if they do happen to get info on an ip it leads to Corp with a PO box that cannot be served.

    Then I would like to see VPN like protection of IP’s I want to be able to get an internet connection that is completely anonymous. In other words I want to pay for an internet connection without giving or having to give any personal information what so ever. Kind of like an internet version of a PO Box but of course stronger.

    It should not be so hard to create total anonymity on the internet. The copyright organizations have far too much power in obtaining information. Look at this article they point out 3 or 4 infractions and expect to get all information on the admins. Why don’t they just ask for info on whoever posted those torrents? The point is because they have pushed their powers to obtain information far beyond what is justified we need more privacy protection. The protection should be to point where obtaining IP info would be useless and render nothing more then a number or code. No personal info, nothing.

    • IDIOCRACY

      In my country (in Europe) you can do this very easy, it costs you a bit more than a registered internet connection and it is not as fast as a fixed connection but it works. We have PREPAID 3G (HSDPA) with a speed of at least 7.2Mbit/s down and about (measured) 1.44Mbit/s up.
      This is more than enough for (bittorrent) music.

      The prepaid simcard fits in any (huwaei f.e.) modem and can be paid by cards you buy at the local kiosk (with money and not your bank card of coarse). So this is totally untraceable until they really try to pinpoint your 3G modem signal…. To make sure that is almost impossible…. share and use this only from a big building where a lot of people live or at least from an area where lots of 3G traffic is generated. …….problem solved…… oh yeah… if they disconnect you…. buy a new simcard…. hehe

  • Toysoldier

    “We are asking for your immediate assistance in stopping this [linking to torrent files] unauthorized activity. Specifically, we request that you remove the infringing files from the system, or that you disable access to the infringing files, and that you inform the site operator of the illegality or his or her conduct.”

    To me it sounds like RIAA thinks they are the law. Power corrupts and the way this is going I think RIAA / MPAA will corrupt itself into distinction.

  • Anon

    All I want to say….

    Go fuck yourself RIAA

  • Anon

    All I want to say….

    Go fuck yourself RIAA

  • dandan

    never buy new music buy used cd’s- never give these creeps any $

    • http://profile.typepad.com/6p0120a5509de8970c Mikko

      Soon there will be a law that says citizens have to buy atleast 2 cd albums and 2 movies every month or you’ll get jailtime and lose everything you own

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Don-Dilly/1624894683 Don Dilly

    their paperwork is wrong and highly misleading to the point of intentionally misleading the court. The files available to not contain any copyright material, merely a description of the file.

    If the torrents are also dht trackerless torrents, it does not even tell the downloader where to find the files.

    The deception is important as the companies the orders are against have no vested interest in the disclosure barr covering their own backs re their client.

    ICE do exactly the same thing, making false over exagerated statements in court where their testimony is not going to be questioned by a non tech savvy judiciary.

  • Anonymous

    Monova’s gone dark, lol. Dunno why the other two are still up. Are they that desperate?

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  • IDIOCRACY

    OFF TOPIC: someone posted here a story about illuminati,…. I read it, I read the comments, and here is my comment:
    Illuminati is just a fancy word for politicians and people with more money than they need…… oh now I sound like a commy….. heee I share files…. so I AM a commy hehe

  • Anon

    I don’t work in the industry and I have no connection to recorded music or movies. But I’ve been with the RIAA and the MPAA from the beginning because letting them die is fine but taking their stuff is wrong and everything they’ve done so far is a provoked reaction, not an action. You could have always done without and that would have hurt them most of all. As it is you’ve empowered them to do this to you.

    Learn your history. Napster in 1999 started it. Before Napster there was not a single shred of evidence any industry or government wanted any part of this.

    • Anonymous

      “everything they’ve done so far is a provoked reaction, not an action.”

      [citation needed]

      “You could have always done without and that would have hurt them most of all.”

      Red Herring

      “Learn your history. Napster in 1999 started it.”

      /irony

      YOU learn your history – it goes far before Napster.

      • Anon

        “”everything they’ve done so far is a provoked reaction, not an action.”

        [citation needed]”

        I’m saying there is nothing there, no evidence at all of anything like this prior to Napster. That means YOU have to present evidence to the contrary if you feel differently. YOU need the citation of evidence to the contrary or my assertion stands. You sir, are not terribly bright.

        oh. pirate. got it.

        • Anonymous

          So what you’re saying is “absence of proof is proof of absence”? Asking in all seriousness.

          And also, why must he present proof? Just because you can’t find any doesn’t mean you are right. It just means you either haven’t looked hard enough, haven’t found any yet, etc. It doesn’t make you by default correct. Saying he needs to present proof to prove you wrong makes you not terribly bright. I mean if the shoe were on the other foot, would that response be okay with you? I sincerely doubt it.

          And calling him “pirate” right off the bat shows you have a juvenile or close minded mind set. He didn’t even say anything remotely endorsing copyright infringement or even hinting that he pirates anything. The only thing you could attempt at twisting to suit your “pirate” comment is the word “Napster”. He says cite your sources, you essentially call him criminal. Wow. Real f*cking mature of you.

        • Trespass

          Actually, plenty of proof as shown by the entertainment industry vs. Betamax in the early 80′s. The industry claimed this is the end of profits if people are allowed to record movies. Same thing with the cassette tape previous to VCR’s. TIVO originally went through legal battles with the industry.

          My point? Technology may change, but the whining of the entertainment industry does not. In all cases, the industry adapted and came out smelling like a rose…

    • FuckThaPolice

      “I’ve been with the RIAA and the MPAA from the beginning because letting them die is fine but taking their stuff is wrong”

      It’s not their ‘stuff’, doofus.

      /facepalm

  • Harlekin33

    Well folks, it´s high time to start using Open VPN and encryption!

  • http://www.facebook.com/mwonch Michael Wonch

    “The RIAA has sent us several DMCA requests in the past and we always honored these,” Bitsnoop’s owner informed us. “Apparently that wasn’t enough, so now they pull this stunt.”

    Sorry, but this site deserves to go down simply due to the utter stupidity of it’s admin(s). Did he REALLY believe complying with DCMA requests would keep him safe? On the contrary! Such cooperation always ensures one will enjoy “first target” status.

    The sites that will survive are the ones with admins who think a step or two ahead.

    What I really wanna know is why isn’t Anonymous using their hacking skills to make RIAA private records and emails public? If a kid with an unimproved retail laptop can break into the Pentagon’s mainframes, I’m pretty sure more experienced young adults with better equipment can force release of the RIAA’s (et al) financial dealings and recent strategic plans…

    After all, this is supposedly the Age of Transparency. Right?

    • Haxor

      because unfortunately the riaa actually dont leave any details on yhere server cause it has been hacked oh like a gajillion times

      but its just a text file…

      • http://www.facebook.com/mwonch Michael Wonch

        They have to keep it all somewhere, and it’ll be linked. Find it, expose it, watch what happens…

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  • Haxor

    oh and once you edit a hosts file and pass those around to your buds then what? i love these asshats wasting more cash

  • Admin

    This is easy to make useless for riaa. First use either tor or vpn and also new email what is used only by tor or vpn. Use fake information about name and address and country and all time vpn or tor. When registering site. Payments using prepaid credit cards = no names or you can choose fake information or virtual credit card = no names. All what RIAA will get is totally fake information and anonymous ip which can’t be traced. VPN accounts also need to be fill with fake information if VPN provider will ask.

  • Anon

    It’s dawning on me how little about this you know so I’m going to make this easier for you. Industrial lobbyists influence the legislative process right? We can all agree on that. And the politicians are (re) elected every few years. If your country has a vote, the whole thing is based on sheer numbers and representation.

    It’s not based on stealth which is about all you asswipes have left anyway, and in the big picture it’s not based on money either, it’s based on votes. All we’ve heard for a decade is you bawling about how piracy is the growing majority and a monied and influential minority are the controlling interest. But guess what? That’s not the facts. The people who believe in their principles showed up. The pirates never did. The fact is that somebody gave a Pirate Party a few years back and nobody came.

    What you loudmouths claimed would become the massive and defining cultural feature of the internet has turned out to be a pimple on the RIAA’s ass. Most who did show up originally to the Pirate Party have also since left. Read up about the Pirate Party, the leading light of pirate think with a few hundred here and a few dozen there. Impressive.

    As this debate moves forward through the media, TF included, piracy is coming off as a cheesy basement activity by a small stupid group who think it’s hip to hide and who rail on about VPN’s and hacking your neighbors wifi and sticking it to the man while blaming it on the neighbor. Or keep pilfering content encrypted. Can you get any boorish or entitled? What are you 14? Nice public image you folks are cultivating. You won’t control your own image until you step forward and publicly be responsible for it. Like everybody else.

    The RIAA did. So did the MPAA. So did nearly every other major digital content producer in the world. You never had the balls in the first place.

    • Trespass

      “You never had the balls in the first place.”

      Correction we don’t have the money. The RIAA/MPAA have sunk millions of dollars for the legal system to take action. Lots of greased palms, back scratching, lobbyists, bullying, and threatening have occurred to get other countries to abide by OUR rules.

      Democracy in this country, USA, is an illusion. We the people have very little to do with the legislative process anymore. Corporate America runs the show with boatloads of cash.

      They are, however, fighting a losing war.

      Time and time again, history has shown that censoring natural demand is useless. It didn’t work for the music industry back in the 2000s, it didn’t work for alcohol during prohibition, and it’s failing miserably for marijuana.

      • Anon

        “They are, however, fighting a losing war.”

        Go back and read, again, what I said. Unless you have no vote in your government, it’s based on votes, not money. Vote the bastards out and actually CHANGE something but you CAN’T, you are dwindling group of content thieves and truly, nothing more. Pretend you don’t understand again. It’s entertaining.

        Had pirates the numbers they need to prevail with the organization and the balls to use their clout in public, the landscape would be very different. As it is, you all bray about hiding behind technology and continuing your thefts and wondering why government isn’t buying into your sad and crass behavior. What a bunch of losers. Carry on. lol

        • Trespass

          Oh, you are one of THOSE kind of trolls that you can’t discuss anything because yours is the only truth. Never mind, engaging you is a waste of time…

        • Anonymous

          I’m not sure just how little you know about politics and voting, but it is a two-party system. You cannot really make a change. Both parties candidates are essentially the same in regards to most things. Yes, there are differences in ideologies between the two, but when it comes to most major decisions the will of the people is the furthest thing from their minds. Those with the funds to lobby and donate to campaign trails and all that get dibs on the time of the politicians and also get a sympathetic ear to speak into in regards to any matters that may or may not concern them.The only people who do randomly actually care about what the people want, are third party candidates. And unless you’re just really dumb or naive, you’d know that a third party candidate actually winning any kind of election is as likely to happen as hell freezing over.

          Also, you are assuming that anyone who questions you is a thief. That is not the case. Just because someone doesn’t agree with what you say doesn’t make them a criminal and doesn’t mean they download a single thing illegally. It could just be that they don’t agree with you. You call them losers, but the loser is the guy who can’t be even reasonably talked to or questioned without immediately resorting to hurling insults at people.

          I believe “sad and crass behavior” might be better defined as “hiding behind technology” as anonymously as possible while all you “bray about” is how people are all thieves. While trying to stand on some kind of moral high ground, because you aren’t a thief. Which is debatable. Because we don’t know who you are and we only have your word to take for it. And as is evidenced, your word doesn’t stand for much. People question you, you insult them. People say present proof to support your claims, you say “no, I don’t have to back up my claims with evidence, YOU have to prove me wrong and present evidence that you did so”. (Which really hurts your case. You can’t back up what you say, but you want others to back up what they say with proof? Apparently what’s good for the goose isn’t good for the gander when it comes to your opinions and beliefs and those of anyone else.)

          I’d have to say Trespass is correct. While I’m not calling you a troll, you are one of those kinds of people who can’t be talked to because what you say is always right. Period. In your eyes at least. Having a reasonable discussion is off the table. Especially when one side is forced to present evidence to support their claims, while the other doesn’t have to and just falls back to name calling when they feel “threatened”. And by “threatened” I mean, when someone doesn’t agree with them entirely.

          If you won’t be reasonable and logical (and not act like a 5 year old on the playground calling people doodoo heads), why not spend your time on a pro-copyright/anti-piracy website? Amongst your peers. Where you can all congratulate each other on how much better you are than all the “thieves”, and discuss how great the RIAA/MPAA are and how everyone who ISN’T you guys is just plain wrong about anything/everything.

        • Trespass

          Very eloquently put Electric_worry. Thanks for stating exactly how I feel. I’ve become so cynical about engaging these types of “self righteous”, people. I liken then to religious fanatics who turn very “unchristian” when you try to engage then with an opposing viewpoint.

          I enjoy a good discussion or debate, but some people are incapable of such.

        • Anon

          You crack me up, Electric. I said there’s no evidence that government nor industry wanted any part of the digital ransacking pirates have conducted since 1999, nor the hassle or costs of the inevitable law enforcement. If you think that’s untrue and you believe there IS evidence, it’s up to you to produce it, not me. So far, no one has. The reaction to infringement from industry and government is just that, a reaction to Napster. If you’d like to present your evidence that government and industry was actually in collusion to protect digital IP on the network prior to 1999, I’d love to see it. We both know you can’t. There goes your strawman.

          And I can’t believe you’d whine “it’s a 2 party system awwwww (sniff)” and imply government structure justifies pirating because you “can’t change anything.” What are you? A teenage Lulzsec worshiper? That’s beyond pathetic. We ALL have to work within the same laws and our respective governmental systems, that’s uh….how civilization works. If it weren’t for government (military) and industry (telecommunications) you wouldn’t have a network to hide on in the first place. Do whatever you wish as long as you acknowledge governments’ right to pursue you and make an example out of you when they apprehend you. That’s also how civilization works. If you don’t like THAT take THAT to your Congressman, too.

          The “good discussion or debate” begins at grassroots level with your Congressman or Senator. When 6 out of every 10 citizens in a given country demand their “right” to free digital products without compensating the creator or the rights holder, that 60% will represent a landslide and no politician on the planet is going to risk that. But all evidence including Pirate Party data indicates you are a single digit minority with a VPN where your spine should be and far more interested in infringement than taking any adult path to change.

          The fact remains you were a sad minority before and you are a sad, dwindling minority now and we are all poorer and less free–ALL of us— because of the bullshit pirate “something for nothing” mentality that has brought this down, as if you expected all the countries around the world to just fold and let you make free copies of everything you can get your hands on. Really? Poor, poor baby in a 2 party system who can’t change anything.

          Piracy in entertainment has been a problem to solve since it began 50 years ago, and the tech fueled increase is now being met head on with tech fueled resistance and punishment and all that is long overdue, they’ve been talking for a decade. To this day the recording/touring acts who have managed a living through “piracy” can be counted on one hand after almost a dozen years, and if you think you’re hurting the heads of digital industry you have a lot to learn. Their salaries have gone UP dealing with your crap and their connection to government has been forged stronger through this debacle. Before this the RIAA wanted nothing to do with government and now they are practically in bed together and it’s all due to digital content theft. Seriously, you want change?—- this approach is beyond fucking stupid.

          Either man up and take your stand in public and with pride and no whining and gather your votes and then bring them to your legislature and effect real change as we all do, or give this selfish activity up so the rest of us can enjoy a bit of remaining freedom and privacy online. There is no grey area here, Electric, and your mealy mouth “you can’t prove I do this” sounds like a 14 year old girl. You either support infringement or you don’t. Pirates were the hunter for quite a few years. Now pirates are the hunted and punishments will get tougher and tougher and it will remain that way going forward. And paybacks, like whiners, are a bitch.

        • Trespass

          Damn, you are a lunatic, ANON. Prior to Napster, there was no digital protection needed as the internet was basically in it’s infancy. You want evidence though the same whining from the RIAA/MPAA came with the introduction of the cassette tape, the industry vs. Betamax in the early 80′s, hell the vinyl record album. TIVO met legal entanglements head-on. Each instance the cry was that profits will dwindle and the industry cannot survive were heard. Each time the industry not only survived, but flourished. Technology has changed, but the whine has not.

          I would like some evidence of all these “Lost Jobs” and other propaganda fed to the general public that is contradictory to the record box office takes that have been rising for years. No one has ever come forward and stated they lost their job due to file sharing. Furthermore, there seems to be no shortage of movies being made, only good ideas.

          You are extremely naive if you do not know that America was bought and sold many years ago. Lobbyists and special interests control the government and corporations run the country essentially. One example is this whole ethanol scam that is invading our gasoline. It has been proven, google it, that ethanol is horrible for our cars, uses more resources to make and expensive to make, actually creates more greenhouse gases than not using it (when factoring in the needed resources to create it), and adds to the already obscene cost of gasoline. Special Interests at it’s finest… Took a lot of money for that to happen. So why haven’t the people spoken? The people are being fed a steady diet of kool-aid and bs propaganda. A little research is all that’s needed.

          It seems obvious that the RIAA stepped it up a notch when the Pirate Bay gave them the finger. They then invested a ton of cash harrassing, threatening, and bullying countries to our way of thinking. Who the hell are we to tell other countries what should be legal in their country?

          I wasn’t always this cynical, but I suspect you are much younger than me and thus have not seen the BIG picture.

          If you have never taped a show from the TV or a song off the radio, ripped music (even your own) to your iPod, used Google Images, or even Google in general, a TIVO, used a DVR to get a show from HBO, or other programs/ devices I haven’t mentioned, you can stay on your high horse. Otherwise, you are just as guilty as we are as all of the above are included technically under the umbrella of copyright. I’m certain you have pirated now or in the past. No way around it really…

          I said I wouldn’t feed the troll, but stupidity really bothers me…

        • Trespass

          Damn, you are a lunatic, ANON. Prior to Napster, there was no digital protection needed as the internet was basically in it’s infancy. You want evidence though the same whining from the RIAA/MPAA came with the introduction of the cassette tape, the industry vs. Betamax in the early 80′s, hell the vinyl record album. TIVO met legal entanglements head-on. Each instance the cry was that profits will dwindle and the industry cannot survive were heard. Each time the industry not only survived, but flourished. Technology has changed, but the whine has not.

          I would like some evidence of all these “Lost Jobs” and other propaganda fed to the general public that is contradictory to the record box office takes that have been rising for years. No one has ever come forward and stated they lost their job due to file sharing. Furthermore, there seems to be no shortage of movies being made, only good ideas.

          You are extremely naive if you do not know that America was bought and sold many years ago. Lobbyists and special interests control the government and corporations run the country essentially. One example is this whole ethanol scam that is invading our gasoline. It has been proven, google it, that ethanol is horrible for our cars, uses more resources to make and expensive to make, actually creates more greenhouse gases than not using it (when factoring in the needed resources to create it), and adds to the already obscene cost of gasoline. Special Interests at it’s finest… Took a lot of money for that to happen. So why haven’t the people spoken? The people are being fed a steady diet of kool-aid and bs propaganda. A little research is all that’s needed.

          It seems obvious that the RIAA stepped it up a notch when the Pirate Bay gave them the finger. They then invested a ton of cash harrassing, threatening, and bullying countries to our way of thinking. Who the hell are we to tell other countries what should be legal in their country?

          I wasn’t always this cynical, but I suspect you are much younger than me and thus have not seen the BIG picture.

          If you have never taped a show from the TV or a song off the radio, ripped music (even your own) to your iPod, used Google Images, or even Google in general, a TIVO, used a DVR to get a show from HBO, or other programs/ devices I haven’t mentioned, you can stay on your high horse. Otherwise, you are just as guilty as we are as all of the above are included technically under the umbrella of copyright. I’m certain you have pirated now or in the past. No way around it really…

          I said I wouldn’t feed the troll, but stupidity really bothers me…

        • Anonymous

          I don’t think you’re all there Anon. You seem to keep replying to things I DID NOT say. And reading more into what I do say than is there.

          For instance, you were going off about voting. I merely said it’s a two party system. So you vote for one or the other, but at the end of the day it makes no difference. There was no whining in what I said whatsoever, implied or otherwise. I also DID NOT imply, nor flat out state, that the government structure as it is justifies piracy. You’re attempting to put words in my mouth. Which is amusing, because I’m always very explicit in what I’m saying or what I mean. So how you got whining or justification from that one little bit I wrote, I haven’t a clue.

          Nor did I mention VPNs. And the last person who’s saying someone should have a spine is again, the guy who insults people online anonymously. You’re a real tough guy aren’t you?

          Also, I DID NOT say I want something for nothing. Reread what I wrote. There’s nothing even remotely similar to that in there. Implied or otherwise. As I’ve told others, I don’t need to download. I buy the books and comics I like. I purchase the handful of albums by the handful of artists I really do like. For everything else music wise I either turn on the radio or check out Pandora. As for movies, I make an occasional trip once every 6 months with a friend. I don’t need to pay to see Hollywood’s blockbusters that badly, to be honest they don’t appeal to me. Remakes and reboots. Ha. No thanks, I’ll pass.. If I watch them at all, it’ll be when they air freely on cable/satellite. I purchase the random blu-ray or two per year, because I don’t care for most movies. In fact, most of those purchases are of old movies I had on dvd but lost. But I’ve got them DVR’ed on my satellite box, so I don’t often feel a need to buy them. Yet again, you’re making assumptions that I’m pirating stuff. I don’t. I do without.

          Also, you obviously misunderstood the “you can’t prove I do this”. I was referring to you. We have only your “word” (as good for nothing as it is) that you don’t pirate anything and you’re a die hard RIAA/MPAA fanatic. The one who sounds like a 14 year old girl is yourself. Oh boohoo. Someone called you out. So you get riled up and try and insult people even more. Face it, your arguments tend to be weak. And your name calling only makes YOU look like a child. You can’t discuss things like an adult so you go playground on everyone.

          Your argument is pretty moronic. “I haven’t found evidence, because there is none, so I’m right.” That’s you. So by default, people can take an opposing view and say I haven’t found evidence either, and that makes them right. By your own logic. It’s up to you to find evidence that proves them wrong.

          And there’s a third ground, you ‘tard. It’s not just you support infringement or you don’t. There’s I don’t care. I don’t care what you or anyone does one way or another. It’s not my place to tell you what to do or not do. Everyone can decide for themselves. What I do make clear, in all my post though, is that I don’t approve of the methods used by the MPAA/RIAA. Their shoddy and error prone data gathering techniques. Their “guilty until proven innocent” mindset. Which they attempt to force others to believe. Their tactics of wanting to get everyone’s data just to find a handful of infringers. Their lobbying to have laws passed in their favor to save their dying industries. Their privacy invading. Etc. Those are things I don’t approve of. That doesn’t automatically mean I support copyright infringement. It just means I don’t like what the industries are doing. Trampling on people’s rights, innocent people’s rights, just to catch a few “criminals”. And I say it with ” ” because depending one where a person lives, what they do or do not do may or may not be a crime.

          And like Trespass pointed out. The industries have done this song and dance before. He gave several examples. So why you keep saying none of this happened til Napster came on the scene is beyond me? You’re only further proving how ignorant you are of actual facts. Psh. Even before Napster, a year or two before, MP3tunes.com (I think that was the name) was under fire. Because it allowed people to store their music in the “cloud”. Except at the time it wasn’t called the cloud. It was just a digital locker. And the music labels were in an uproar over that. Check the dates, it’s easy to verify that that service was around right before Napster.

          I think we’re done here. Your stupidity is astounding. And I think your meds are calling you. Because you’re obviously delusional, as is evidenced by all the things you say I said, but which any sane/reasonable person can easily verify that I did not say.

          Seriously, get off your high horse. Have you ever sped? If so, that makes you a criminal. And speeding is way worse than downloading a song or movie. Why? Because speeding puts actual lives in danger. If you say you’ve never sped, you’re full of sh*t. Everyone has.

  • Carbonlib

    man, what a bunch oh whiney thieves…..really? really guys? just TAKE the content any way around that you can?

    your parents suck

    • Anon

      “your parents suck”

      lol +10

      SO TRUE.

  • OK

    Going back to the subject, you know Whoisguard is going to cough up the identities. Says so in Namecheap’s privacy policy:

    Only If We Have To
    As stated previously in this policy, we will never give out your information without your permission. The only exceptions to this are, when we are required by law, in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform to the edicts of the law, or we must comply with a legal process served on our web site.

  • Anonymous

    *that you inform the site operator of the illegality or his or her conduct.*

    I dont think so RIAAtards. You cannot compel one private company to act as an extension of your tiny authority. You are just a well overpaid lobby group that cant make any other company do a thing to suit your industry.

    WHOisguard job is to protect the identify of site owners and if they fail to do that they breach their primary obligation to serve customers.

  • Anonymous

    I doubt the RIAA will get what they want even if WhoIsGuard turns over the data when the domain details are likely to contain false information.

    The admin email address should be valid but could be outside their region to subpoena for further details.

    Name, address, phone could all be false. As to the demanded IP address then they can simply say that they do not keep such records.

    Everyone already knows their hosting provider like Limetorrents use ISPrime but as can be seen from the routing their hosting is actually in the Netherlands. Still their provider also providing services in the US could complicate things.

  • Anonymous

    I doubt the RIAA will get what they want even if WhoIsGuard turns over the data when the domain details are likely to contain false information.

    The admin email address should be valid but could be outside their region to subpoena for further details.

    Name, address, phone could all be false. As to the demanded IP address then they can simply say that they do not keep such records.

    Everyone already knows their hosting provider like Limetorrents use ISPrime but as can be seen from the routing their hosting is actually in the Netherlands. Still their provider also providing services in the US could complicate things.

  • Anonymous

    I see the RIAA still hasn’t stopped distorting…

    “offers direct links to files containing sound recordings”

    Links to files containing meta-data (ie: links to torrents) are not the same as direct links to something containing the sound recordings.

  • AnarchyNow

    RIAA/MPAA = worse than nazi terrorists
    U$A = worse hypocritical dictatorship ever they have to disappear like the roman empire, and not to be replaced by some chinese shit

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  • Austin Canfield

    well they can go ahead and take down all of those sites, I’ve never used any of them and I’ve only heard of monova.

  • safetyisagiven

    i say fuck RIAA ill stick with downloading with thepiratebay.org they have their source code for download so users can restore the site and in their terms of use they specifically say that any user is safe from being hunted by their IP if someone violates the terms of use and gets your IP tries to fine you or anything then thepiratebey can sue the violaters so fuck you anti piracy take out thepiratebay their source code is the highest download on their site itll be back on the internet in just a few hours lol

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