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UK Seize Popular Music Blog, Arrest Operators and Threaten Readers

As part of a criminal investigation the UK Government has shut down the popular blog RnBXclusive which posted news, commentary and links to music. Authorities have arrested the owners of the site for allegedly defrauding the music industry. In addition, the Serious Organised Crime Agency is threatening users of RnBXclusive that they face 10 years in prison if they downloaded music through the site.

xclusiveFounded in 2008, RnBXclusive.com quickly became one of the most popular R&B / hip hop blogs. With over a quarter million fans on Facebook it was the go-to destination for many music fans.

But that all changed today when the UK Government’s Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) took over the domain and arrested its operators.

“SOCA has taken control of this domain name. The individuals behind this website have been arrested for fraud,” reads a message on the site’s home page.

In addition to arresting the site’s operators for allegedly defrauding the music industry by posting links to copyrighted music, SOCA also warns those who used the site to download tracks.

In a rather threatening tone SOCA explains that RnBXclusive readers face up to 10 years in prison.

“The majority of music files that were available via this site were stolen from the artists. If you have downloaded music using this website you may have committed a criminal offence which carries a maximum penalty of up to 10 years imprisonment and an unlimited fine under UK law.”


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To guarantee maximum impact the warning also displays the IP-address of those who visit the site. SOCA explains that they may use this information for further investigation.

“SOCA has the capability to monitor and investigate you, and can inform your internet service provider of these infringements. You may be liable for prosecution and the fact that you have received this message does not preclude you from prosecution.”

The above is reminiscent of a message that was displayed when the UK authorities shut down the popular BitTorrent tracker OiNK. At the time, the site’s visitors also received a warning. The OiNK case, however, turned out to be a waste of tax payer money and the site’s owner eventually walked free.

Finally, SOCA’s warning on RnBXclusive concludes with a rather tendentious claim which appears to come directly from a music industry lobby group.

“As a result of illegal downloads young, emerging artists may have had their careers damaged. If you have illegally downloaded music you will have damaged the future of the music industry.”

The above is worrying, because it wouldn’t be the first time that UK authorities are dragged into a criminal investigation solely based on evidence provided by the entertainment industries. In fact, this was the main reason why the operators of another BitTorrent tracker – FileSoup – had their case dismissed.

In the US similar mistakes were made with the seizure of the music blog Dajaz1. More than a year after Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) seized the site’s domain, they finally gave it back. It turned out that the seizure was a mistake.

Mel of Dajaz1 also sees similarities between today’s actions and the seizure of their site in 2010.

“Unbelievable, apparently the UK Govt doesn’t believe in Due Process either and their claims of damaging the industry and artists is unsupported propaganda,” she told TorrentFreak. “We’re completely against the process of seizing first and asking questions later.”

Thus far UK authorities haven’t officially responded to the RnBXclusive shutdown and arrests. We will add an update as more news becomes available.

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

    lie after lie…. why is SOCA doing this now ?

    “”The majority of music files that were available via this site were stolen from the artists“”

    copying is not theft….
    Begs the question….. who are SOCA being puppets for now ?

    • Anonymous

      puppets of my asshole Government the USA !!!
      Washington DC is a Cancer and it is very malignant and life threatening.

      • Duke

        This probably hasn’t come from Washington DC, if you look at the site they’ve linked to (or failed to link to), it’s an IFPI one. The IFPI just happens to be based in London, and has quite close ties to UK law enforcement (along with the incorrectly-named FACT, which does Hollywood’s dirty work in the UK).

        • Sketch

          yeah but you cant tell asshats like jordan anything, cuz there is NOTHING smarter than a 18 year old……unless its a 19 year old. lmao

        • Anonymous

          Yeah dude, but you’re missing the point:
          Everything wrong with the world comes from USA.
          Got it?

          Now try and keep up…

      • FBI RATS

        Fuck England. Its a damp dark hole here. Do not come here on holiday, you will regret it.

        • Anonymous

          Sounds like your mom.

        • Danny

          I actually like it here, wouldn’t trade it for anywhere in the world!

    • Guest

      Even so, bit of a game changer.
      I can see ICE using this technique soon.
      It’s certainly intimidating to the casual downloader.

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

        very intimidating…..threatening and aggressive.

        • Anonymous

          I don’t see it so much that way.

          I like their “may have” when this is like saying “If you have read the pages of TorrentFreak today you may have set off an intergalactic signal that will result in an alien abduction tonight along with an endured anal probing!

          That “may have” sure creates a vast array of so won’t happen. The rest they do is only what every website you visit tracks about you anyway.

        • http://www.facebook.com/ValhallaLegend Andrew Lee

          It’s not likely anyone will be found guilty even if arrested.
          The war on the internet that is getting out of hand this year will prove to be a loss for everyone on the side of evil.
          If you want to fight a war you’re supposed to have the majority of the people on your side. However this is not the case at least not in this day and age.
          People are getting fed up with the all governments and their corrupted officials taking bribes from the elites to do their bidding. If they really fight this out to the very end and do shit how they want I can see a few governments getting overthrown.
          If it came to that they’ll find out where their armies true allegiances are and that’s their families.
          These rich assholes need to get with the fucking times and stop trying to run shit like it’s 1975 because I got news for them it’s 2012 and we’re ran by evolving technologies.
          The internet is not anyone’s enemy it’s a tool and as with any tool it can be used for good or evil.
          The best example the splitting of a atom can be used for mass murder,genocide, or any other evil shit you can think of. It can also be used power,scientific studies that ask a infinitely complex yet simple question who are we and why are we here.
          At any rate this will be a interesting year to see play out.

        • Fuckfiaa

          very barbaric… vicious and cannibalistic

        • abaranger

          MMMMM anal probing!

          I’d love to give the waitress at the local curry house an extensive one of those ^^

          our “govt” and police in the uk are a bunch of fucking useless cunts who ignore all serious crime, rape and pillage the publics tax money and do this kind of shite instead

          seriously thinking about moving back to Japan as England is becoming a lamer place to live each and every day and I’m pretty ashamed to call myself English, its a pretty racist and small minded island to live in anyway.

          what I really want to say is
          SHARE AND ENJOY MUDDY FUNSTERS!

        • Guest

          We’re not going to win this war through peaceful protest. We need to get violently aggressive.

    • Peen

      Copying isn’t theft you’re right it’s counter fitting

      • http://www.facebook.com/hopeyoufsckingdie Hope You Die

        Are you retarded or something?

      • http://tiny.cc/ANoiXioNA-personal-info ANoiXioNA

        hey…. that used to be my job…. counter fitting.
        i used to fit kitchens…. including the counter.

        counterfeiting…
        To counterfeit means to illegally imitate something.

        people sharing data… is not counterfeiting… unless of course they where imitating someone/company.

        • Anonymous

          awww, a genius huh? does it make you feel superior and smarter to blog and correct anonymous folks’ spelling errors like a petty, arrogant self-aggrandizing knowitall you show yourself to be? LOL

        • http://gene-poole.tumblr.com Gene Poole

          @DebraChicago:

          know-it-all should be hyphenated if you want it to be one word.

          HTH

        • http://otester.myopenid.com/ PiRat

          @DebraChicago

          u mad bro?

        • http://profiles.google.com/artfulldragon TL Dragon

          @DC

          Spelling and grammar errors are forgivable, I make them. A lot. If however, you are too damn retarded to use words that are actually capable of transmitting the message, mocking is the best you get. Flat out being ignored the lesser option.

          It’s not a spelling or grammar issue, it’s the complete wrong words. Counter fitting? It’s an actual thing. Did you know that? People fit counters all the time. Most suck at it though. Get wonky miscut uneven shit counters then the *&^%$ try and throw laminate over it like you aren’t going to notice. Bitch there is a 2″ gap at the top and a 3.5″ gap at the bottom, how the shit am I NOT going to notice that *&^% head. Even if I was blind or oblivious when you can’t put anything on the damn counter without it rolling off like Tony Hawk dropping into a vert its pretty easy to figure out somethin’ ain’t right. Contractors man, they can suck so so very hard. But I digress.

          Thanks you for playing I have nothing useful to say but I want people to think I am smart. Obviously I enjoy the “nothing useful” aspect because…well here we are!

          On the “smart” front, sadly your effort was completely futile. It’s fairly easy to see you are tired of smarter people correcting or ignoring you and have become bitter. I suggest pretending you have some sort of ee cummings fascination, maybe that will get the mean old grammar police to leave you alone.

          We salute you with a unanimous GTFO—-> and encourage you to return when you have attained the magical thing that is the “clue”

          Side note/PSA :

          Yes, as a matter of fact, my I.Q. test did put me in the genius category. By like a point. So I am a genius! I also lose my contact case EVERY DAMN DAY. I probably have 50 contact cases in my house, I have no idea where the hell they go. I just buy them in bulk now, fuck it. A piece of paper says I am smarter then alll ya’ll mfers (gross exaggeration of course). In my day to day life I do enough stupid crap to make friends and loved ones ponder how I manage to survive on my own with my advanced level of functional retardation. If Forrest Gump and Rain man could have a baby, I’d be Rain Gump.

          So what does that mean? Thats right!! The genius thing is a crock of shit, and we all know it. Find a better taunt/insult. I suggest brain or penis size. Those are always good. Or maybe go with the superior/inferior thing. It’s tried but true.When in doubt hit up the classics.

          Now you know, and knowing is half the battle!

          Of course, the other half involves guns. I hesitate to give a gun to someone who finds the shift key at the beginning of a word too taxing to attempt. I suppose we could simply arm you with grenades and run screamin’ eagle the hell away from you, but that seems a bit callous.

          Oh hey! What about a spork?? You stab somebody with a spork they are gunna get an owie boo boo. Seems like it would be hard to accidentally off yourself with a spork. It’s really a wonder tool if you think about it.

          .
          .
          .

          Cool story ain’t it bro??
          .
          .
          .
          .

          Dafaq I just write. 0.o

          Somebody get me a hobby!!!!! STAT!!

        • http://tiny.cc/ANoiXioNA-personal-info ANoiXioNA

          sorry guys .. @DebraChicago .. has tailed me from foxnation..
          (time to create a new account for there….)

          i haz myself a troll….

          guess i must av pissed her religious ..anti-gay …racist ass off some : ) ..

        • Anonymous

          Gene Poole,

          Most people capitalize the beginning of a sentence.
          Just FYI.

        • Anonymous

          Wow, TL Dragon, my first ever post on torrentfreak after following it for about 2.5 years now. I just had to comment on how I nearly sprayed water all over my keyboard whilst reading you comment.

          A truly witty (and “nothing useful”) masterpiece of literary reply.

        • http://tiny.cc/ANoiXioNA-personal-info ANoiXioNA

          @TL Dragon…

          fukin hilarious … can’t say much more … fukin hilarious

      • Squaresville

        Regardez:

        What is the difference between piracy and counterfeiting?
        The term “counterfeit” describes fake goods. The term “piracy” describes the act of reproducing movies, music, books or other copyrighted works without permission from the copyright owner.

        And all from a US government website no less! Even they disagree with you! EGAD! lol

        • Anonymous

          The correct word is indeed “infringement”.

          “Piracy” is a propaganda term used by the copyright side to make the situation appear worse than what it is. They also use “theft” in this same regard.

          Two can play at that game which is why I call them the “copyright cartel”

        • Anonymous

          “Piracy” means “robbery or illegal violence at sea”.

          In the 80s, I seem to recall, home taping was killing music. Music is alive and well.

        • http://gene-poole.tumblr.com Gene Poole

          I have a google news alert for piracy. It’s really frustrating when I get articles about singapore attacks and boats being sunk. I wish someone could narrow down these terms, it’s kind of inconvenient.

        • http://tiny.cc/ANoiXioNA-personal-info ANoiXioNA

          @Gene Poole lmao : )

        • http://www.facebook.com/ValhallaLegend Andrew Lee

          pi·ra·cy/?p?r?s?/
          Noun:The practice of attacking and robbing ships at sea.

          LOL Sorry I could not help myself >.<
          Counterfeiting is never good I just got out of trouble myself for that in Jan. Well not the typical type since mine was with making security RX pads and using them for my personal habits. A two year pain killer spree and at the end of the road arrested 3 times and a few fines. Plus a few good stays at my local nut house and well over 100 grand down the drain or I should say up my nose.

          Now fucked up as that may seem if it was money I was making I'm sure I would have done a shitload of time in fed. If it was for movies I'm sure I would have been fined way more.

          The way the big corps are talking I guess you should be careful about downloading as it might put you in the crazy house and cause massive internet withdrawals and trust me rehab sucks ass all they will give you a little cup full of 56k.

        • Anonymous

          Counterfeiting is good, unless you try and swindle someone into buying an inferior product.

          as long as the customer knows what he is buying it doesn’t matter if it happens to look like another product.

        • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bruce-Young/658260718 Bruce Young

          piracy describes the act of forcibly taking posession of a vessel upon the high seas.

    • http://otester.myopenid.com/ PiRat

      They can SOCA my dick.

      Downloading copyrighted material isn’t illegal in the UK, I can’t see this going very far, guess this is another test case to see if they can get away with it.

    • LAVENDER

      You take 1 out and you create 100 new ones with even stronger convictions than the first.

      Sounds familiar?

      So pathetic that the UK has become nothing but a lap dog for the US.

    • http://www.kingdomofeyes.com/ KoE

      I just sent SOCA an email.
      I won’t let this shit happen in my country. I will take affirmitive action.

      Jail isn’t that bad. Just boring.

    • Guest

      “Punishing people for sharing worthless copies is unethical….”

      No, it is criminal. This agency actually admitted that they are an organization of criminals. Don’t the call themselves “Serious Organized Crimes Agency”?

      This mean to me that this is an agency who is committing serious crimes in an organized fashion.

      Seizing a web site and arresting the web master without due process is criminal indeed. Receiving bribes from private corporations who defend the interest of a small minorities of social parasites filthy rich of the money they JACKED from the citizen and the artists is definitively a CRIME.

      I wonder if the British justice is going to prosecute them or if we have to do it ourselves.

    • Anonymous

      Also propaganda, is the unlimited fine and 10 years in prison, copyright infringement is STILL a civil matter, but we must not let the facts get in the way of good propaganda…

  • http://torrentfreak.com/ Rob8urcakes

    This is so cool – coz although I’m a UK taxpayer and I despise waste, I HATE my precious tax being wasted on backing the corrupt CopyWrong Cartel even more.

    So I call on everyone affected by this blunt instrument to sue my UK government and UK authorities for undue harassment, inconvenience, actual financial loss, profound stupidity, threatening behaviour, … and that’s just off the top of my head.

    I also issue a sincere S.O.S. – ie a Save Our Sites.

    • Anonymous

      The big question here is how the UK managed to seized a .com domain which we last heard was the property of the United States?

      Then can Russia, China and Iran do that as well now?

      This domain was hosted at RackSpace as well.

      • ViolatedGotViolated

        a) they haven’t sized shit, its still registered to the same guy, they just changed the dns servers.
        b) Domain is registered with GoDaddy.com so they just asked GoDaddy to change DNS, GoDaddy will do anything, anyone wants, with or without a court order.
        c) it was hosted in Switzerland so they probably have no access to logs from the past, due to Switzerland data logging laws, just who ever vists from when its sized.

        • Anonymous

          Well from what I heard this domain now points to hosting in the UK.

          Then if Soca could change the DNS then you have to ask who now controls the domain and if the owner of RnBXclusive can change their DNS to new hosting? I would say that seems likely when the owner of SmashLeaks said he can restore his site if he wanted.

          Well if GoDaddy change the DNS settings with no court order then I would suspect some law has been broken. Any wise person would have moved away their domain from GoDaddy during their boycott and turned to like NameCheap instead.

        • Chilly Willy

          I thought Switzerland would have passed stricter data rentention laws, being they are one of the founding countries of the ACTA

  • DavidX

    “If you have illegally downloaded music you will have damaged the future of the music industry.”
    That is kinda exactly why people do it,
    the music industry must be destroyed as it is a cancer fisting on the culture of man kind.

    • FBI RATS

      Standard top 40 song:
      Baby, Baby, yeah, yeah, woo, yeah, baby-yeah.
      Now they are even stealing uk dnb and dubstep and integrating it into their worthless music. One day we will make them pay for this…..

    • http://gene-poole.tumblr.com Gene Poole

      agreed, who cares about the music industry. I want to support music artists and creative art. Fuck the industry.

      When will people stop seeing that as synonymous with ‘music’?

  • Indeed I am a walrus

    That awkward… wait, fuck that.

    That fucking retarded moment when something as petty as “”Copyright Infringement”" carries a 10 year sentence. Theres so much other shit that has less, and is far worse.

    I used to think it was restricted to the US that stupid shit like this happened.

    Oh my jesus, was I wrong.

    • Anonymous

      It’s an empty threat. Perhaps the law says that’s the maximum sentence, but anyone who has just downloaded for their own consumption is never going the sent to prison. In fact, they’d be extremely unlucky if they were even prosecuted.

      It’s meant to scare people into stopping downloading, that’s all.

    • FBI RATS

      What sentence would you get for murder?

      • http://gene-poole.tumblr.com Gene Poole

        a good lawyer could get you second degree manslaughter, which could carry a term of about 10-12 years, 5-6 with good behaviour.

        • Guest

          it seems pretty said when copyright infringment is taken more seriously than murder.

        • Ggigigi

          During the genocide at Middle East we killed as many people, women, children as we like – 2000 people per day. Nothing happen

        • Anon

          Of course, you’re looking at real world cases. Maximum sentences are probably life. I doubt anyone gets 10 years for copyright infringement, much like how people rarely get life for manslaughter. The two aren’t comparable. Stop trying to paint a picture that the government treats murder less harshly than copyright infringement.

  • Synaptik

    All their information is fed to them by the entertainment industry.
    Pretty pathetic that law enforcement doesn’t check facts any longer, just take the word of others.

    Wonder can I call the police now and tell them every man I see look at my wife in a mall is a rapist and have them arrested with no proof?

    Sure seems like it these days … sad

    • Boltie

      We should just ring up and tell them we logged an I.P. address linked to SOCA that was sharing our music via bittorrent. All we need to do is create a false log file and give them that as evidence. It’s all the proof you need.

  • None

    Your Browser: Desktop
    Your OS: Unknown

    lol

    • Fgf

      127.0.0.1 is the wierd part lmao

      • None

        It’s probably edited in the screenshot.

        But this Desktop/Unknown has shown up for me with Mac/Chrome.

        • techanon

          There is this thing called ‘user agent’ in your browser. It’s a string that contains the information of the version of the browser and the OS it was installed in.
          You probably see that because the script they put in there doesn’t recognize the user agent that your browser provided.
          BTW the user agent can be modified to provide false information about your browser and OS.

        • None

          My user agent is:
          Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_2) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.963.46 Safari/535.11

          ;D

      • Guest

        You can fake user-agent with https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-switcher/ dont forget to disable/block javascript and/or disable plugins like Flash and Java.

    • http://twitter.com/icanhazsake Ninja

      System requirements for the code displayed in the seized page:

      OS – Windows
      Browser – Internet Explorer

      If you don’t use those we can’t identify you. Which leads us to the obvious conclusion: Linux users are thieves pedophiles terrorists since they won’t let us monitor them.

      • Guest

        haha

  • Anonymous

    “The individuals behind this website have been arrested for fraud.”
    What fraud? Explain? Maybe the FOIA can help. Quick. Before the conservative idiots kill it…

    “SOCA has the capability to monitor and investigate you, and can inform your internet service provider of these infringements.”
    Good luck. I’m Dutch.

    “The majority of music files that were available via this site were stolen from the artists.”
    Like it was said a long time ago; copying isn’t theft. (perhaps only .000000000001% of their profit)

    “If you have downloaded music using this website you may have committed a criminal offence which carries a maximum penalty of up to 10 years imprisonment and an unlimited fine under UK law.”
    10 years of prison. like they can imprison a minor. oh wait Richard O’Dwyer.

    “The above information can be used to identify you and your location.”
    GeoIP doesn’t really work very well on my connection :(

    “SOCA has the capability to monitor and investigate you, and can inform your internet service provider of these infringements.”
    Like my ISP cares about them.

    “You may be liable for prosecution and the fact that you have received this message does not preclude you from prosecution.”
    meh.

    “As a result of illegal downloads young, emerging artists may have had their careers damaged. If you have illegally downloaded music you will have damaged the future of the music industry.”
    “As a result of illegal downloads Rupert Murdoch et al may have had their wallets damaged. If you have downloaded a form of music (including indie music) you might have damaged the future of the MAFIAA.” -FTFY (including spelling)

    “Visit pro-music.org for a list of legal music sites on the web.”
    It’s better than the MAFIAA’s list. but it’s outdated. and ugly. it features companies long extinct in my country, illegal ringtone companies (yes, that’s the law). someone mind hacking this website so it will show a link to tpb.piratenpartij.nl (censorship, i know)

    “SOCA: Serious Organized Crime Agency”
    yes, SOCA are the criminals here. serious criminals. they can’t even use a spellchecker…

    I had a lot of fun typing out this comment. Seems ICE is coming to the UK… but slightly more obnoxious…

    • http://twitter.com/icanhazsake Ninja

      Serious Organized Crime Agency

      Didn’t know you could do some organized crime for fun. If they come at me I’ll tell them I was doing it for fun, problem solved, I walk free =D

      • Danny

        Unfortunately Ninja they have a counter part FOCA (Pronounced Fuck Ya).

      • Anonymous

        Check again. The improved version :)

    • Anonymous

      It’s funny how you say you’re dutch and you worry about “‘conservatives” and Rupert Murdoch. If you’re so worried about them, maybe you should be more worried about your government being the bitches of Murdoch and the US…

      • Anonymous

        i am. however, we have politicians who stand up against them. fortunately. so i can worry about other countries.

  • Anonymous

    I really hope this case gets thrown out
    there has to be justice

    • Anonymous 2

      Indeed, if this site gets pwned by the UK government – that puts a lot of fear for me… I own UK based music sites and I’m not happy about this news :-

      • Anonymous

        Find another line of work, mate.

      • Goest

        you represent the entrepreneurs of the future… the only thing is that people with power prefer to see the world sink into deep depression, rather than allow for new business models to emerge.

        get away from that business, or you will end up crucified for the sake of the survival the old and wealthy.

  • Artez

    I wonder how many of the “Artists” support this. You seldom hear any “Artist” coming out in favor of any those sites. If they all are puppets of the industry, they should at least don’t hide behind their managers and industry lawyers. The industry is well paid to get the shit from the net, but I would rather have a list of “Artists” who I can ignore the rest of my life because they (silently) support this sort of thing.

    • Vllnsldm

      Man, 99,9% don’t even know that someone on their behalf is collecting money in their name. IF they knew they’d probably demand a handsome cut, don’t you think?
      Now, all money collected (if any) goes to their so called “defenders of their copyrights”. Just another world class scam, that the law seems impossible to touch, due to bribed judges, politicians etc. For now.

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  • Anonymous

    It is interesting to see that DaJaz1 themselves broke this story.

    So once again Indie music and independent distribution comes under attack. This time with not even a Judge to approve the domain seizure.

    The RIAA (and BPI) is sure getting desperate these days now that the Indie musicians now have the larger market share and the former RIAA monopoly collapses as each day passes.

    We cannot say if any infringement happened at rnbxclusive.com or not but what we can be certain of is shit loads of lawful Indie music was just taken down.

    I have a strong feeling Anonymous will soon fire back.

    • Danny

      What I find interesting about this is that they were merely linking to infringing works which has been deemed legal in the UK. This will hopefully be thrown out of court if it gets that far.

    • MrSharps

      Unfortunately “anon” have moved on from their stand against the copy-wrong industry.
      It makes me sad that when lazy journos talk about Operation Payback, they refer to the defence of wikileaks.
      Operation Payback was a concerted 4 months attack against the MPAA, RIAA, speculative invoicing thieves and various associated lumps of dried on turd caught in the assholes of the previous (umad Gene?)
      And actually the Torrentfreak boys asked us to stop, as they said rightly or wrongly we were bringing negative attention to the issues.

      • Anonymous

        Yes I noticed but their choice. I guess the days have passed when they fire back against injustice and bullying.

  • Guest

    “The above information can be used to identify you and your location.”

    >Your browser: Desktop
    >Your OS: WinNT

    Laptop running windows 7….

    NOPE.

    • None

      Windows 7 is actually part of the Windows NT family. I think you’re busted now.

      • Guest

        Not me. I’m not busted.

        I am using a pirated copy of Win 7.

        SOCA suck my dick.

  • RebelWithACause

    “As a result of illegal downloads young, emerging artists MAY have had their careers damaged. If you have illegally downloaded music you will have damaged the future of the music industry. ”

    When did it become part of SOCA’s remit to spread the media companies propaganda?

    They should state no more than what the domain was seized for. I would go as far as to say they have overstepped the mark with these comments and shown that they are puppets for RIAA.

    • Guest

      Exactly. It’s absolutely ridiculous that they are allowed to advertise on a seized domain. Even that list of “legal” sites is way out of line.

      I hope this will raise questions in UK parliament.

      • OutrageMcMurderspree

        Like those fucking soulless cock-suckers are going to give a fuck about you and me…

    • Krozareq

      Actually, they damaged the music industry with the crap they put out.

  • Anonymous

    It seems SOCA is waisting their time. More then a few cases were dismissed, including one with the tv-shack.net founder being dismissed because posting links isn’t a crime.

  • http://twitter.com/broken_boy_uk BrokenBoy

    fake fake fake faaaake !

    http://www.soca.gov.uk/news/press-releases

    no press release = didn’t happen …

    • Anonymous

      Then why would their name be all over a seizure notice? It may just be too early to do any update.

      • anyonecanpost

        Must be that their sole IT guy had so much work making that “seized” page that he barely had time to update the press section of their site. :D

        • Anonymous

          They don’t update their news page much when it still contains much 09 and 10 news.

    • Shenstone

      I’m reserving judgement on this one until it’s confirmed by SOCA. This is so over the top it’s either a hack/prank or SOCA have gone insane. They’re equally possible.

    • Danny

      The ORG spoke to SOCA and confirmed it.
      http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2012/soca-seizure

      *** Edit: Sorry Glyn Moody spoke to them, link in the blog!

  • Xzynth04

    Copying isn’t the same as stealing, SOCA please understand that first.
    Secondly, you wouldn’t get 10 years in jail for stealing an entire ALBUM at a store, maybe a warning from the owner, or worst case a fine from the police.

    MESSAGE TO THE WORLD: Stop acting like puppets of the US, they are even more corrupt than you are!

    • Anonymous

      The UK is usually puppy dog to the US snapping at the great American heels and wanting a treat.

      It soon gets tiring.

      • Guest

        Agreed. Not unlike New Zealand , Spain, France, Sweden…. the list grows daily.

  • Anonymous

    looks like the UK has taken training from the US DoJ/ICE but pushed it up a level! what the hell is going on with the world? how the hell can a music or movie file be so damn important that it justifies this type of behaviour? total insanity!!

    • Anonymous

      I am just wondering if they will do a better job than ICE did? Looking at the crap on their seizure page that seems to be no so far.

      Then after cases like OiNK and FileSoup they have a tough nut to crack.

  • Anonymous

    meant to ask, exactly what is the charge of ‘fraud’ over?

    • Anonymous

      It would be Copyright Fraud.

      I guess FACT just became obsolete.

  • Anonymous

    This is why we can’t have nice things you guys.
    Time to switch to oneswarm / i2p torrents / freenet.

  • http://www.twitter.com/echoman74 echoman

    Oh no everyone run SOCA STUPIDLY OFFENSIVE CRACKHEAD AGENCY is after you all lol. I mean seriously what’s with all tnhe stupid abbreviations with government acta open pipa soca sopa tpp

    I’m truly looking for a new one called shit fuck crap whore bitch etc…

    • Mwhahaha

      Bitch
      British Investigators of Technology, Copyright & Hysteria

      Fuck
      Federal Undercover Copyright Kops

      Crap
      Copyright Rapists After Profits

      • http://www.twitter.com/echoman74 echoman

        you hit the nail on the head lmao. :)

      • BlowMe

        BLOWME

        Business Lobby of Web Monetization Enterprises

  • 2 Bunny

    Not only does “SOCA” sound a lot like “SOPA”, but they didn’t even spell “organized” right. FAIL!

    - 2B

    • Johndelo

      OK you’re an idiot.. in the UK it’s spelled and correctly and actually it is right spelled “organised”.

      • Guest

        Beavis says … “Hey Hey … huhhh huhh … YOU SAID ORGAN!”

      • Johndelco

        damn my grammar sux though! lol

      • 2 Bunny

        LOL ROFL! “Hey Hey … huhhh huhh … YOU SAID ORGAN!”

        - 2B

    • Anonymous

      The humorous part I find is that SOCA a Government agency is not following correct English grammar.

      Here in the UK when an abbreviation can be spoken as a word then it is correct to only capitalise the first letter. The BBC do this one often referring to SOPA as Sopa, PIPA has Pipa and ACTA as Acta.

      So SOCA is correctly spelled as Soca.

    • Anonymous

      The humorous part I find is that SOCA a Government agency is not following correct English grammar.

      Here in the UK when an abbreviation can be spoken as a word then it is correct to only capitalise the first letter. The BBC do this one often referring to SOPA as Sopa, PIPA has Pipa and ACTA as Acta.

      So SOCA is correctly spelled as Soca.

      • Mwhahaha

        Don’t think grammar’s a legitimate legal defence.

        Though it really ought to be.

      • ndmushroom

        To be perfectly honest, until I visited SOCA’s site, I thought this whole message was a scam. The design, the phrasing (stolen from the artists) and the intimidating techniques (hell, even the name: Serious organized crime agency???) made me think of an extortion scam by some malicious hijackers.
        Sadly this seems to actually BE the work of a british Government agency. Such a shame…

        • Anonymous

          Well this story is now covered by the BBC in their most read story…
          http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17039722

          Hard to find a more official source of UK news. Then watch the BBC go with their “Soca” spelling further pointing out SOCA’s shame. It is fair to fault the UK Government for trying be American and not British.

  • saynotobloat

    This site was using American Domains.
    People need to boycott the US and get there domains/servers elsewhere.
    They should do this as a way to protest, and also for there own safety.

    RON PAUL 2012

  • http://twitter.com/happyizpunjai happy

    fuck all .com .net and maybe .org domains since American declared ownership over that shit

  • John

    Pedos dont even get ten years SOCA can go fuck themselves. Wonder what there servers are like.

    • Krozareq

      Actually my uncle served 11 for it and it was the FBI who uploaded them to his open IRC fserve.

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

    Amazing claims when you consider SOCA only has an industry body’s claim as to legality of any download. That has yet to be determined by a court.

    Surely rather than putting the cart before the horse as SOCA are doing, they should await the outcome of a civil copyright case.

    This seems complete abuse of the criminal justice system. One thing of concerrn is that if this were to be heard as a civil case it would be covered by the patent court which specialises in claims of copyright and patent infringement where the site owners are far more likely to get a fair hearing rather than in a crown court criminal fraud case.

    Though I am not up on RnB and Hiphop, there is every chance this site is operating the same way as the site that burnt ICE’s fingers in that much of the material was by unsigned artists or material distributed to the blog by the artists or record companies to promote.

    Oh on another note, I believe other sites with UK links were hit today
    Smash Leaks http://www.smashleaks.co.uk/
    (fb page http://www.facebook.com/SmashLeaks?sk=info )

    • http://gene-poole.tumblr.com Gene Poole

      I never used the site, so I’m a little fuzzy on this…but it seems to me that all the site did was link to copyrighted music on other websites. so like a one-stop for all your rnb music needs, a link aggregator.

      Isn’t that already determined in the UK to be perfectly legal, which is why all the hubbub over Richard O’Dwyer? because it was perfectly legal in the country where it occurred?

      If you could actually download things from the website, that might change things, but it doesn’t appear to be the case reading the article above.

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  • Anon

    Formal complaint lodge to SOCA and MP. Feel free to join in

  • Anonymous

    Aww. They even copyrighted their own copyright infringement page. How precious.

  • Anonymous

    Aww. They even copyrighted their own copyright infringement page. How precious.

  • Boo

    Er…you can’t actually serve time for downloading copyrighted material in the UK.

    • Anon

      Quite right, its not even a civil offence unless you do it for profit or as a business :)

      • I’m 12 and what is this?

        So… downloading music is LEGAL in the UK? O_o that’s news to me… I’ve downloaded in the UK for years and always used protection thinking it was illegal ^__^

      • Duke

        If you download copyrighted stuff without a licence, you’re infringing copyright, which is a civil liability issue (but not an offence, technically). Technically it’s a tort.

        If you do it in the course of business, or on a scale that “affects prejudicially” the copyright owner, it becomes a criminal offence. However, that doesn’t seem to apply to downloading, only uploading (upon correct construction of the law) but the CPS (the England’s prosecuting authority) and similar seem to disagree with that last part.

    • James

      Exactly. The actual copyright owner needs to contact you first with thier dispute, then file civil proceedings. It’s not a criminal offence at all. People really should file a complaint to this organisation SOCA. It’s messaage is misleading and wrong. They should be sued themselves in civil court for false and misleading statements causing fear and stress.

      • Anon

        Already did

      • http://twitter.com/brettpatterson Brett Patterson

        I’m going to call them to complain about the tone of the message (and that is overly politicised/misleading).

        Do they really know that the infringers ‘stole’ the music ‘from’ the artists. Really? Theft? Directly?

      • Anonymous

        You mean like instilling terror in the people? Yup… legalized terrorism if it’s done with money. It’s pretty bad when you’re afraid of your government. Things have to change.

  • James

    LOL, just had to visit the site to see the wrong IP listed as what they think is mine.

    • Anonymous

      It is not hard for anyone to spoof their IP with using a web proxy like fetch4.me.

  • Bradasah

    thats some bull crap

  • http://twitter.com/meekcritic Meek Critic

    I guess England is different from most other countries. Here in Canada, there are hundreds of gangs, including large ones such as the Hell’s Angels and a few large Mafia families based in Montreal. Are file sharers England’s equivalent to the Hell’s Angels?

    The world is a safer place now that this blog is no longer online.

    • Mwhahaha

      Yes I for one feel that I’m less likely to be mugged, stabbed, shot or mis-sold a financial plan now that this extremely dangerous blog has departed.

    • Anonymous

      Hey!! Here’s an idea… Since ICE and Homeland Security, FBI and all the anti-terror squads are taking down file sharers, why don’t we get the MPAA and RIAA to take out the cartels, drug and gun runners, and all the other big bad guys. Wouldn’t that be a fair trade?? Makes sense to me.

      • Anonymous

        That would be easy to do by turning Hollywood into a massive Opium field and setting up a Cocaine factory in the poorer area. Then no more Mexican drug imports when Hollywood can monopolise the market.

        All a service problem. LOL.

    • Goest

      you’re so right.

      In these trouble times of scarce public ressources, what is important for our great governments is to set priorities. Today again, british democracy and liberalism shines upon the earth.

    • Goest

      you’re so right.

      In these trouble times of scarce public ressources, what is important for our great governments is to set priorities. Today again, british democracy and liberalism shines upon the earth.

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  • Anonymous

    Good luck finding me SOCA. Good old VPN (lol Iranian IP which changes constantly).

    • Krozareq

      O shit, watch out for Mossad. They might mistake you for a radioactive Imam.

    • Mwhahaha

      Just the chance of being arrested for espionage then?

  • Krozareq

    The fact they use a “z” in Organised proves who these ninnies are: fat ass Americans. I can tell, because I am myself a fat-ass American. I eat shit tons of fast food and I fart all over your shitty world. I can tell when my own ilk are trolling your retarded pussy countries. Stop sitting around get shit on by us, god dammit. Go slap an MP; set some cars on fire; I don’t care how you do it, but stop being an Orwellian victim simply because people don’t want to be seen as supporting the evil and dirty pirates of intellectual property. That’s how tyranny begins and thrives. Fight the mechanism, not the supposed end of the means.

    • Mwhahaha

      Common myth, the Z form in -ized/-ised words was the original English spelling, I believe Jane Austen used ized rather than ised.

      Also fight the system in legal ways pls! Encouraging others to commit crimes could lead to an actual conviction. A new trend over here in the UK is people being arrested for meaningless shit they spout on message boards and twitter.

      • OutrageMcMurderspree

        How can you ‘fight the system’ in the legal way?
        Choose who reads out the dictated rules of the slaves?
        Petition and ask nicely?
        How about holding up a sign and getting beaten up, by faceless thugs, with truncheons, boots, and indifference?

        We can all live in hopeful, naive la-la-land and pretend, but one sure way to stop Big Brother breathing down your neck is to tear his fucking lungs out.
        Agreed?

      • Eyes

        The S form in -ised words is the original English spelling. Taken from the French form. The -ize suffix is taken from the Greek form. It wasn’t until the 16th century that there was an attempt to formally (but only partially) adopt the -ize form, but protests by prominent voices in literary and scholastic fields meant that -ise was kept as the correct official spelling in order to simplify the language, as certain words with a French (and no Greek) origin end with -ise (advertise, devise, surprise).

      • Jizzbomb

        You’re kidding, right? I’ve seen mates of mine post stuff about assassinating people in government and they’re still walking about and laughing about it!

    • Goest

      violence is not the answer, my friend. so stop promoting it or i will stick a “burned car” up your a*s

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  • MrMur

    Got to be fake. Reverse DNS is a .dk

    I reckon a lot of people have been had.

  • Kr0nZ

    LOL was the ip really 127..0.0.1? Or was that edited by Ernesto?

    If it really came up like that then that’s a huge fail, I got no problem with them suing themselves

    • Krozareq

      Ernesto must have installed a trojan on the server and everything is funneled into 127.0.0.1:59332 lol

      • Kr0nZ

        no way. Ernesto only uses port 65536 :P

    • DoobyDoo

      nah

      if anything I reckon there just going to go after a handful of users in the context of the amount of visitors the site got, people who visited multiple times weekly

  • SOCA-CABANNA

    SOCA http://www.soca.gov.uk/
    Is asking ALL INTERNET USERS to ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE
    in a DDOS attack on http://www.soca.gov.uk/

    We freely admit we are MORONS and respectfully request
    that all the WORLD shut our STUPID website down.

    Bloody Hell.
    Bollocks.

    • Tom
    • Kr0nZ

      Ive never understood the reason behind DDOS attacks, there is little chance that a internet facing website is what they use to conduct most of their business.

      In my opinion it would be far more effective to DOS their nameserver or even better their mx-server (mail)

      I guess tho, that ddosing their website will help mask real attackers trying to exploit the website

      • Tom

        And exactly what is this going to achieve?

        • It’s a fit-up

          Please be quiet Tom, the adults are trying to talk.

        • Tom

          @It’s a fit-up
          Really? you guys are adults? 15 doesn’t make you an adult.

        • Kr0nZ

          well no shit, and here I was all along pronouncing it fifth-adult ^_^

          and btw attacking a nameserver or mail server would be more efficient because they coordinate more than just a webserver, so taking it down would take down multiple services, not just a web service.

          I case you dont know what a nameserver does (and judging by your tone you dont know much of anything) its what translates http://www.torrentfreak.com into 173.193.242.225

        • Tom

          @Kr0nZ
          You kinda missed my point but that’s ok.

          I am simply saying “what are you hoping to achieve?”. All these attacks aren’t making governmental agencies scared. It just makes them even more determined; giving them even more reasons for wanting to get more control over the internet.

      • Krozareq

        It’s about media publicity and recognition really. Anonymous knows the actual attack is rather benign.

        • Danny

          Do they really?

          I got the impression these are children that don’t truley understand how the net works. The rally against SOPA was organised in a much better way and fortunately anon didn’t effect anything.

      • Guest

        See DDoS as protest.

    • Krozareq

      Probably doing them a favor by taking down another copy and paste website. Apparently whoever put up those images on the front page has never heard of resampling.

      • SOCA-CABANNA

        SOCA http://www.soca.gov.uk/
        Is asking ALL INTERNET USERS to ACTIVELY TAUNT US.

        Then please TAUNT US AGAIN.

        Then say … “Now Go Away or We Will Taunt You a Third Time.”

        Then please TAUNT US AGAIN.

        We freely admit we are MORONS and respectfully request
        that all the WORLD TAUNT OUR STUPID ORGAN-i-Sation.

        Your Mother Is a Hamster and Your Father Smells of Elderberries.

        Bloody Hell.
        Bollocks.
        God Save the Queen.

    • Goosmoo

      that soca web site design is hideous.

  • Anonymous

    That message tells you everything you need to know about the people who enforce copyright and think copying is stealing. It’s about time we abolish copyright laws and prevent corporate slobs from abusing them.

  • Supportit

    lol what a bull.. they never posted any news just illegal music they bought from hackers..thats the reason why they got busted

    • Guest

      What the hell are you smoking, man?! “…illegal music they bought from hackers..”. WTF!?!

      • Krozareq

        He’s definitely not smoking the bud, because I am toasted right now and I don’t get that shit either. He must be tweaked out on crystal, thinking ET is trying to probe his butt. Those god damn hackers, what will they think next?

    • It’s a fit-up

      You spelt Super-tit incorrectly.

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  • Tman

    SOCA: Serious Organised Crime Agency
    Sounds fake. Secondly file sharing as serious organised crime? How about gun running, drugs, people smuggling, bikie gangs, the mafia – thats what ya call serious organised crime. Talk about stepping outside ones bounds.

    • Krozareq

      As far as they are concerned in the US, they won’t touch the drug families that exist in every city all over Texas. They are scared of them, rather they are scared what happens when territory opens up after a family is gone. So instead they flex their muscles on the Internet like some basement dweller.

    • Danny

      SOCA was set up to fight organised crime, like the Mafia but instead its being abused by the MAFIAA!

  • guest

    LETS BE REAL

    nobody’s gonna listen to nobodies

    Sharing is the only way to get heard.

  • http://7-books.net/ SleepyJohn

    I really did not think the UK government could sink so low as to rent its police force out to the MAFIAA’s thuggish ‘enforcers’. What a thoroughly despicable act of commercial bullying, carried out by those who are specifically charged with protecting the people.

    As every day passes my opinion of the vermin comprising the copyright industry and their political yes-men plummets ever further, to the point where I now believe that the only course of action for civilised people is to destroy the whole stinking edifice through massive worldwide civil disobedience. Rentokil – where are you when we need you?

    I am pleased to say that the signs of such a revolt are gathering momentum. If every politician who endorses an industry that acts like a global gangster extortion racket is put in mortal fear of losing his position and his power, we might see some changes.

    • Anon

      You keep missing the point. Every industry has or will have digital IP to leverage and sell in the future if not already now. NONE will stand for unauthorized duplication and government will either enforce the law with whatever it takes or stand to lose the very industry that underpins society, government and modern civilization. Think they’ll let all that just go so you can have your online “freedom”??

      LMAO

      • Anonymous

        These companies you refer to were very successful at one time so they got greedy and used their fortunes to get the law on their side. Greed is a very bad thing. People wrote songs and made plays long before copyright laws, and they will continue to do so until the end of time. Companies rise and fall with new technologies and interests. And even if all these “IP dependent” companies go out of business (which they never will) society will move right on to the next ones standing in line. This is the 2010s, not the 1970s anymore. Get yourself caught up with the times.

      • Guest

        You know it’s a RIAA/MPAA shill when it claims that government lies on a foundation of nothing but intellectual property. What the fuck did we have before IP? Anarchy?

      • Zig

        Every industry will have digital IP to leverage? Good luck convincing your local bricklayer that he has digital IP to leverage!

        You really have no idea do you? The world does NOT revolve around fake ‘property’, it revolves around fake ‘money’ and very real services. The MAFIAA can no longer provide a service that it is possible to leverage fake ‘money’ from so they are irrelevant.

        They do not underpin modern civilisation. Our shared culture underpins modern civilisation. Our culture existed for thousands of years before you and your disgusting leech-like ilk decided to attempt to control and monetise it, and it will exist for thousands of years after we have filed your sorry fake ‘industry’ in the memory hole under ‘greed and its role in the reduction of humanity to base animals’.

        The dirty paymasters you speak for do not represent civilisation, they’re the very antithesis of civility.

  • Guest

    can they really punish half a million people for this?

    I don’t think they have nearly enough manpower or money to do that despite having ip addresses

    • Anon

      No, it’s just scaremongering like the Hadopi laws in France. They might pick on a few martyrs but they will never litigate en-masse.

  • Viktor

    Jamendo is so much cooler.

  • Anonymous

    “The majority of music files that were available via this site were stolen from the artists.”

    For the love of God people, GIVE THE MUSIC BACK!

    • James

      LOL.. I agree. We should start a campain! ” Send The Stolen Music Back ” Send the music back to the artists by the truckloads.

      • Anonymous

        For sure!! If I send back all the music I have downloaded, that should get me off the hook! Cuz, then it wouldn’t be theft, but just ‘borrowing’. (Not that it was theft in the first place, but for the folks that insist it is…..) Let’s give it back! Luckily for me it was only one song, but I downloaded it 42,782 times. I REALLY like it and didn’t want it to get warn out!

    • Whitney-Houston

      AND I-EY-I, WILL ALWAYS FUCK YOU-E-OW,
      WILL ALWAYS FUCK YOU-OOOO.
      WILL ALWAYS FUCK YOU

    • Krozareq

      There’s a couple of movies I want to email to support@mpaa.org

      Here, take these back. PLEASE!

      • Anonymous

        Send them the low-quality split-up YouTube 240p version. maybe it’ll kill them.

    • http://7-books.net/ SleepyJohn

      I like this idea; I wonder if it would stand up in court: “M’Lud, while i was making tea the other week the cat wandered across my keyboard and apparently inadvertently stole a song. When a nice man from an American company called The MAFIAA was kind enough to tell me it was his property I was mortified. I immediately found the stolen item, made sure it was undamaged, and sent it back to him carefully wrapped in an email.

      “I then noticed in his letter a calculation that while the song was illegally in my possession it could have been further stolen by another 17 million people. This seemed a rather large number but as I felt guilty over my cat’s behaviour I accepted it. At great cost and effort to myself I made 17 million perfect copies of the song and promptly emailed them all straight back to him. I trust this prompt action will cause you to deal with me more leniently than I have the cat.

      “I cannot be sure if the MAFIAA boss received all the songs as his email seems to be no longer working. However, I do have proof of posting.”

      Could there be a germ of an idea here? Hoist the bastards with their own petard? Perhaps we as a community should nobly return to the MAFIAA all the items it claims our friends and neighbours have stolen from it.

      • Zig

        Great idea. I mean, if they keep claiming it is property, then surely they can’t complain when we return their property?

        “Dear Mr MAFIAA boss,

        I found this movie lying on a website and thought I should return it to you, just as I would if I found your wallet lying in the street.

        I do hope there’s a reward for returning it. I believe something in the order of 5% is customary in these cases and I’ve read somewhere that when you sue people who have ‘illegal’ copies of this movie you tend to estimate its value in the tens of thousands of your dollars. Therefore might I suggest the humble gesture of forwarding me the sum of 500 US dollars for the safe return of your property.

        Love and kisses

        The interwebz”

  • Purehatredoptimist

    lol i purposely went on the site to give them my IP address – VPN rocks SOCA – suck on that lmfao

    • Danny

      I purposly went on there to give them my real IP.
      Fuck the idiots I have done nothing wrong and nor do they have the evidence, if they try to prosecute me it will be a right laugh.

  • Krozareq

    I am reporting this 127.0.0.1 guy to http://www.iprcenter.gov/referral

    HE MUST BE STOPPED!

  • Matheus Svensson

    That warning page is absolutely fucking insane, and I’m someone who’s very rarely drawn to swearing. The implied threat is that, by browsing to the website, you might receive a visit from the police. It’s the level of threat you might expect in a police state. It’s more menacing than the censorship blocking pages issued by most repressive regimes.

    Exaggerating the legal consequences of copyright infringement has got several solicitors severely reprimanded. Of course, that doesn’t apply to the police, and what they’re wheeling out again is conspiracy to defraud. The only conspiracy was to share and enjoy music. In the two previous cases referred to in the article, the people who were charged with conspiracy to defraud had been key to running the site or provided large amounts of content.

    If SOCA has already seized the servers, that’s what it’ll be using. What happens after a domain name is seized is irrelevant. Hoovering up a load of IP addresses, and presumably the cookies from some of the people who have visited the site before, isn’t going to cut it. However, it seems, RnBXclusive.com was hosted in Switzerland. I’m starting to think the domain name is all SOCA has, which would make the warning page, at this point in time, complete bluster.

    ‘Serious’ Organised Crime Agency? A complete joke, more like. Even American ‘respect my authoritah!’ law enforcement doesn’t come out with such bollocks.

    • Anonymous

      Scaring people by exaggerating things is an old tactic. Its just like those FBI and FACT warnings. Remember, if you can’t win by reason, start lying. Still, were not criminals and we don’t like to be treated as such. If the police resort to such drastic things like this, its like instead of them saying “We are sworn to protect you” they say “If you even THINK about breaking any of our laws, we are going to run you into prison so fast you wont see it comming. We can and will do it too.”

      And heres another example of an overly intimidating warning:
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs3e3XOifcM

  • Harquebus

    Good luck jailing that quarter million.

  • Guns-n-Bullets

    New PB torrent …
    Download and 3D print “Guns and Bullets”

    3D “Bag o Weed” comming soon!

  • Anonymous

    Where are the 7 hydra heads sprouting up from BT Junkie?

    • A-none-Anon

      what is wrong with you?
      are you seriously going to post this on every single article????

      do you really think you can just tap a couple keys on a keyboard for 5 mins and have a website reeady?

      most filesharing websites use customized code, there isnt just a ready made script somewhere anyone can use, well there are but they are pretty shitty.

      i been working on my own site for the last two weeks now, its mainly an indexer but will allow people to upload there own torrents.
      it takes time to code and test, you dont want to just put up any website full of security holes, cause it wont last long…..

      Stop moaning, or else code your damn own

      • A-none-Anon

        Oh yeah forgot to mention…
        I GOT BETTER THINGS TO DO THAN CODE A WEBSITE FOR HOURS ON END!!!

        • Anonymous

          I hear ya, but, where are the new sites at?

  • Wattm1

    There is alot of fuck the USA but it`s it`s the music and movie industry and there government lapdogs.

    • Aha

      Many american citizens are willing supporters of those practices. Besides, how can you trust a country that elected Bush Jr. TWICE?

  • Guest

    Serious Organised Crime Agency?

    HAHAHAHAHAHA sounds like a bunch of inbred fucks. I can already see them driving around on their tricycles and fondling small children. Seriously what a laughable name. Since apparently there is no due process in England I think we should accuse these fucks of raping puppies and causing internal bleeding – something they do on a daily basis.

  • entropy

    OMG I’m so scared now they know my IP address!!!

    Which wouldn’t be the same IP address the next day. My ISP rotates IP addresses around. LOL

    • A-none-Anon

      but your ISP keeps logs of who had what IP at what time, in most countrie they are required to by law, others just do it for technical reasons

      • Nononon

        No, they only keep a log of the subscriber who had that IP at that time. Good luck proving who was using a computer connected to the router which had been assigned that IP at that time.

        • Rapture

          well duh, its not like your ISP has malware or bio-recognition software on your PC
          please… its pretty lame of you to split hairs like that

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  • Anonymous

    Depressing, isn’t it? Not just that this happens today, but that we seem to wake up
    each day to yet another repetition of this tired old script.

    You’ve seen it before. You’ll see it again. The bullies wake up enraged. They shut down a web site. They arrest the principals. They call everybody within earshot a thief. They threaten the general population with fines and imprisonment.

    They do this over and over again, in France, in the U.S., in New Zealand, in Italy, in the UK.

    So,, what’s their problem?

    Why are they so enraged?

    Why do they appear weaker, instead of stronger, after each of these actions?

    Two observations:

    First: Although Copyright special interests have enjoyed the power for the last hundred years to write these particular laws making them monopoly custodians of the world’s intellectual property, those laws, as written today, are NOT adequate to enable them to maintain their previledges. They desperately need NEW laws giving them global jurisdiction; bypass of constitutional constraints; more severe and more extensive criminalization.

    Second: The corporate agenda behind copyright law lacks moral and political legitimacy. By this I mean that although current copyright law can be promoted and maintained undemocraticly by special interests operating outside the view of electorates, it can not long survive electoral scrutiny taking into account the public interest. If average citizens get activated enough to ask questions from the priority of their needs (rather than corporate needs), then the moral and political basis for the positions pursued by copyright holders becomes untenable. This is EXACTLY what happened with SOPA and PIPA.

    Is it what will happen with ACTA?

    It is depressing that we do not yet know. Isn’t it?

    Yet, every time a web site is unfairly taken down and only belatedly returned to its owner, without compensation or explanation; everytime police authorities are seen to act abusively and arbitrarily on behalf of private power over what should be civil, rather than criminal issues; every time that another corporate call is made for the sacrifice of constitutional rights in order to protect profit, we come a little closer to getting the little guy involved and finding the true limits of public tolerance.

    • Anonymous

      You overlook that the world of copyright is changing.

      Take the RIAA when they now control less than half the market where the Indie artists are now a bigger force. The RIAA moan that their income has halved in recent years but if you do the sums then the Indie market is responsible for that due to Internet distribution. Piracy it seems only makes up 3% of their problems if even that.

      Why should Governments listen to an obsolete monopoly when an open and free market now exists? Do they want to destroy a free market?

      Why are they allowing this obsolete monopoly to attack their biggest threat? Not piracy but the Indie market. DaJaz1 make a good example and here we are with RnBXclusive.

      Then this is not even touching the public modern focus on ensuring and promoting a healthy Creative Commons and Public Domain market.

    • Goest

      i don’t see the little guy getting involved, maybe it’s a question of generation. it seems to me that people above 35 just don’t get it.. yet they still represent most of the little guys.

      • Anonymous

        I would not say that and I am over 35 for one thing.

        Modern file sharing is built on the shoulders of all which came before it. People of past generations have had a taste of sharing from past media. Cassette tapes, VCR recordings, the radio, free TV stations and even hacking pay TV services.

        What they less understand is that the Internet is a game changer and the world of media is going through a large revolutionary reform.

        Even if you want to take the pessimistic view the younger generation about these days will grow up to be the leaders of tomorrow. So we can still win out by putting up a good defence and waiting for the power shift.

        Copyright will be reformed where I have no doubt about that. Then I am quite sure afterwards most people will be quite happy.

        • Goest

          ur right about that, the question is when?

          the current copyright system is just one among many things in the system that need profound reform, and that explain the current economic depression we are in (those called pirates today are nothing else than entrepreneurs of tomorrow). But it took WWII to overcome the problems that led to the great depression. so yes, i m sure the young generation will change the world, but i contemplate much pain ahead.

  • ACTA FOOL

    When is anonymous going to really help us win this fight, get some dirt from these politicians or MPAA/RIAA. This is becoming very ridiculous already!

    • Kr0nZ

      why fight? its better to just develop ways to avoid detection, because that will just piss them off even more, which means more lulz for us

      • Anonymous

        Not at all. Our victory over SOPA and PIPA has done more harm to the MPAA than anything else.

        I am sure Chris Dodd now has sleepless nights wondering how he will get any new law passed after all the millions wasted. He even fears those dreaded words of negotiation and compromise.

        Well unless you fight they only destroy your defences until you run out of places to hide.

  • Noone

    I feel bad, I never went to the site.. til just now and that warning got me scared lol. Maybe not try and arrest me. I went there just to see the warning and didnt even read it fully and left. If I read this article fully, I’d never have gone.

    • Krozareq

      I went and downloaded the copyrighted page.

      • Noone

        so i have nothing to worried about… correct? just paranoid lol

        • Anonymous

          Depends, where do you live?

    • James

      I’ve been there a few times. Visiting a site isn’t illegal, stuff them.

  • Nene

    I’d hate to say it… but if it weren’t for blogs and links I wouldn’t know or love many of the bands and tv shows I’m now a fan of….

    Many will lose a potential market with these things… I guess they just want to work the ol’ fashioned way huh?

  • AnonFriend

    Subscribe to Rhapsody or any other service download your DRMed music and use programs like TuneBite to unwrap em. :)

    • Ddd

      Businesses, pretending to be the friends of pirates since 2003

  • Guest

    IP does not equal location, fuk off UK

    • Guest

      i mean person

  • AnonFriend

    These Governments are just wasting money and time people will always find away to get free music LMFAO at the wasted gov money and on top of all this they steal from the people threw austerity measures.

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  • SOCAFAIL

    Are the owners going to be extradited to the US?
    How come no one has asked this yet in here?

    • Anonymous

      No extradition this time. Then for any American’s reading then yes other countries do indeed have adequate laws to tackle infringement without bundling them in a black sack only to wake up on US land.

  • KevHy91

    They keep telling me that if I don’t vote i don’t matter, so why should I if the end result I get a fuckin middo fingah from em. The Gov’ts around the world can start eatign bags of dicks. Fuck em’

  • Wightphantom

    very fishy smell wafting from this site. Is this a spoof? the take down notice is illiterate and uneducated and seems slanted to USA ideology so is this a hack? there is no relevence of the statements to UK law. Also I dont think a UK Govmnt agency would put this type of notice up. RIAA,MIAA or FACT would after a Filesoup genre raid. This sort of notice is a get out of jail free card for an english court.I think there is a clue in that tvlinks is stalled and this is a similar .com site serving UK legal comments.

  • Xemnarth

    This is totally ridiculous. Can it get any stupider??

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  • paula

    copying is theft of content … you did not create the content, therefore do NOT have the right to copy it.

    • Goest

      people like you are so depressing, making us believe that there is no limit to human stupidity.

    • STFU

      No. Theft and copyright infringement are different crimes altogether, and recognized as such by law in all countries. When you copy something, you do not acquire the original copy and do not actually remove anything from the owner’s grasp. At best, you are diminishing the value of the original copy, but it is NOT theft.

    • Anonymous

      Theft? I think not…
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IeTybKL1pM4

      Thanks for spreading the copyright cartel’s propaganda but wrong it still is.

    • Guest

      Everytime I copy Google logo in my computer I am stealing.

  • Anonymous

    I will follow this story until the end.

    • Anonymous

      …or die trying. ;-)

  • Goest

    SOCA, going after a bunch of kids making a few bucks with advertising on a website….

    it’s always appaling to see public ressources used for the sole sake of defending unlegitimate private interests.

    God, how corrupt our supposedly democratic countries are!

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  • Q brain

    TO GET OUT ALL ACTA SOPA PIPA USA+UE AND ALLIES MEDIA CORPORATIONS
    TO F..K THEM ALL IS SIMPLE GUYS

    BOYCOTT MASS ALL THEIR PRODUCTS !
    DONT BUY THEIR PRODUCTS !
    CLOSE INETRENET ACCOUNTS AFTER ACTA , DONT USE INTERNET AND SO ON ! HIT THEM WITH THAT
    WITHOUT MONEY … OUR MONEY THEY WILL LOOSE EVERYTHING (POWER ,CONTROL ) AND THIERS LAWS WILL BE USELESS

    AFTER YOU ALL WILL SEE THEY WILL BEG US TO RETURN !

    IS SIMPLE KEEP IN YOUR MIND WHEN YOU BUY SOMETHING FROM THEY (MOVIE TICKETS , SHOWS , MUSIC FILES , MOVIES ,GAMES ETC )

    IF YOU BUY YOU GIVE IT THEM MORE MONEY – MORE MONEY MEAN MORE POWER – MORE POWER MEAN MORE CONTROL AND MANIPULATIONS AND SO ON …SO CUT THE “FUEL” OF THEIR POWER — MONEY

    IN ONE OR TWO YEARS THEY WILL FAIL ,
    THEN WHAT THEY WILL DO WITH COPYRIGHT ?
    THIER PRODUCTS AND COPYRIGHTS WILL BE A PIECE OF TOILET PAPER , NOBODY WANT . NOBODY BUY . WILL BE JUST PICE OF SHIT

  • Doug209

    I think Anonymous could teach these guys a lesson.

  • XorTuna

    The site was hacked NOT taken down by the UK gov.

    • Kr0nZ

      you are incorrect
      http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/15/rnnxclusive_soca/

      “Rumours that the rnbxclusive.com takedown was a hacker’s prank were spread by the site’s Facebook fans, but are untrue. Rnbxclusive.com has over a quarter of a million fans on the social network. ®”

  • http://7-books.net/ SleepyJohn

    I’ve seen a couple of comments now claiming the site was probably hacked and that it was not the UK government. I have to say on reflection I find it difficult to believe that even the current ‘anti-piracy’ hysteria could make the British police write such appallingly aggressive drivel on a shutdown website.

    It is dispiriting that the antics of so many politicians and copyright corporations have convinced so many of us that this is a likely response from the authorities. Perhaps if said authorities had the guts to stand up and condemn these attitudes we would not be so cynical.

  • MarkJ (ISPreview.co.uk)

    Hang on, since when did “downloading” music without commercial gain become a “criminal offence” in the UK that carries a “maximum penalty of up to 10 years imprisonment and an unlimited fine”? Even under the Digital Economy Act it’s “uploading” (i.e. sharing/P2P) and not so much “downloading” that collects most of the focus.

    • Anonymous

      Soca seems to be wanting to do the copyright cartels job for them.

  • PRIVACY is priceless to me

    UK = illegal tyranny of an inbred degenerated way too old queen over several countries.
    Kill the queen, death to the UK !

    • Anonymous

      The Queen is a powerless figurehead rendering most of your argument invalid.

  • http://www.techfruit.com Tim [techfruit]

    It may not have been the “majority” of music on the site was illegal – but for a site supposedly focusing on R&B, they were linking to top40 singles by the likes of Leona Lewis, Mel C, and Kelly Clarkson – something which music bloggers have long known will get you into trouble.

    They posted these MP3s illegally to gain traffic to the site, and as such deserve the shut-down if you ask me (talking as a copyright minimalist and music blogger myself). If you post music illegally simply to gain traffic, then you are doing nobody any favours.
    http://www.techfruit.com/2012/02/15/soca-takes-down-uk-music-blog-rnbxclusive/

    • Arga Khan

      You’re right. Much better to link to the infringing versions posted on YouTube instead.

  • Piercing_male

    Are you sure this isn’t a hoax? The reason I ask is that UK legislation would probably prevent such a notice because it may be seen as prejudicial to any subsequent court case.

    I don’t think I’ve ever seen or heard of the UK using or posting take-down notices, rather the site just goes poooff and disappears.

    • Anonymous

      Lets all play follow the Americans…

      After ICE came under fire over DaJaz1 then it is little surprise that they now spread the load.

  • Pineapples

    This is a hoax. The site has just been hacked.

    • Anonymous

      Wrong
      Response
      Or
      Not
      Gone

  • Antonio

    leave sharing be

  • Anon

    Downloading is legal in the UK.

    SOCA can fuck themselves.

  • Anon

    This just doesn’t ring true to me is there anywhere else where this has been reported?

  • Anonymous

    Looks like the internet is becoming the next communist community. Scary dude.
    Dot-Privacy.tk

    • Zig

      It tried to be, what with all the sharing. Remember, the marxist slogan was “from each according to their means to each according to their needs”.

      Unfortunately the internet is becoming more like the next fascist community. Remember Mussolini’s words “Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.”

  • SOCA MY BALLS

    Ummm, sorry SOCA, but you’re wrong. Downloading music from a website cannot lead to 10 years of imprisonment. You know why? Because copyright infringement isn’t even a criminal offence, it’s merely a civil one – you know, like trespassing. Unfortunately for you guys that means it falls completely outside of your jurisdictional powers. FAIL.

    • Anon

      This is what is baffling me. Surely this agency should know the law!

      • Zig

        Nope. They’re the fuzz – they don’t know jack shit, they just enforce what they’re told to enforce. In truth, the police forces are all private limited companies, just as the local courts are. They’re all listed at companies house you know – hidden in plain sight in this Orwellian world.

  • Paul Hill

    Send your complaints here like I did to tell them how they are in fact hurting artists publiccomplaints@soca.x.gsi.gov.uk

  • DRuNKeN MaSTeR

    LOL, I visited the site just to see my IP. Also: “and an unlimited fine” – how do you pay “unlimited” money?

    • Anonymous

      To spill the blood of virgins usually settled that debt. ;-)

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/62V64TTAALX5O4LIW45D55FDRA michael

    Hmmm…

    With what crime would the users of this website be charged?

    As far as i’m aware, only the unauthorized DISTRIBUTION of copyrighted material is a criminal offence, but not receiving it.

    If that were so, then buying pirated movies and game discs from car boot sales and street markets would be a crime, and that certainly is not.

    Sounds to me like the copyright nazis are spreading misinformation as usual.

  • Gae

    Yeah, like the music industry hasn’t paid someone off for this.
    Taking down a website if it is possibly illegal is one thing, but then filling the website with hollow threats, propaganda and misinformation is taking things too far.

    And as for 10 years in prison for downloading a song – we don’t even lock murderers up for that long….

  • Onewayjan-004

    Election in USA is coming soon, so many $$$ are needed.
    The rich “rightsowners” will not spend election support unless the politicians take actions to their benefit. So everybody gets busy and predominantly English speaking countries with whom the USA obviously maintains good relationships get the pressure and obey.
    After the show in USA is over it will be quiet for a few years because ACTA will not pass in Europe.

  • Ai

    Censorship reflects society’s lack of confidence in itself.
    It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

    The government is staffed by Idiots and Dinosaurs.
    I’ll be so happy when they just eat one another.
    Go extinct. They are dangerous.

  • http://7-books.net/ SleepyJohn

    I have just visited the site after reading Slashdot’s piece and all the offensive garbage has been removed. It now simply says that SOCA has taken over this domain. So I think it was yet another a scam by the MAFIAA – simple, moronic street corner gangster threatening bluster. Pathetic really, to think that such childish behaviour could come from anyone over the age of eight.

  • SillyNess

    That picture claiming the information is enough to identify you and your location… except the IP is the local machine IP 127.0.0.1

    hahahaha

  • Texasimg

    THEY ARE GETTING CRAZY WITH THIS COPY RIGHT SITUATION, DAM GUESS THEY ARE IN NEED OF FUNDS TO SCAM OUT OF EVERYONE THEY CAN, I GUESS THEY ARE THINKING WE MIGHT AS WELL WHILE WE CAN STILL GET AWAY WITH IT BEFORE THE OTHERS CRACK DOWN ON OUR ILLEGAL PROCEDURES

  • AAAAAA

    This is the funniest thing I’ve read all week.

    • http://twitter.com/Mido1000 Ahmed Omar

      yeah i’m very sad but that’s really funny …police now is Chasing the people who download free music to put them in jail …i think there is no crimes in UK ..so they are searching for anything to do ..they are without work nowadays :D …Pathetic

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/62V64TTAALX5O4LIW45D55FDRA michael
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    that;s suck ! i hate this activity. Thanks

    Eset-Username-update

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  • http://7-books.net/ SleepyJohn

    Well I have blown hot and cold over this, one minute disgusted by the apparent action of a British police department, the next unable to believe that such infantile, threatening gangster-crap really was the work of an august body charged with protecting the British people from harm.

    Sadly it seems my initial disgust was well founded. What a disgraceful exhibition from the British police. I hope someone in a position to do so hauls them over the coals over this quite unbelievable and despicable behaviour from taxpayer-funded public servants. A thousand years of careful evolution of a justice system once admired all over the world and we get this!

    I don’t know which to despise more – their crass, ignorant stupidity, or their gross, Third-World-Warlord notion of justice. I feel ashamed to be British. Whoever put that notice up should be dishonourably discharged from the service. Come on Cameron!

  • Zan

    10 years for downloading from that site? Tell me who made that law up! I’ll rape them and do only 8 years http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/may/26/rape-sentence-average-eight-years-justice-figures

    • http://twitter.com/Mido1000 Ahmed Omar

      fuck yeah ….they are completely insane

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  • DeSade

    Kill them Kill them all let the blood flood the streets of London. People must rise up against the tyranny
    Its time to instill terrot and fear into those bandits and government officials that collide with this organized crime unit

  • chumscrubber

    as soon as they shut down all the free sources for downloading music or movies, i’ll just stop downloading them at all, and lots of people will do the same, majority of users can’t afford paying money every time they want to watch movie or listen music.
    So this will be bad for the artists and for government people who try to make some extra money

    • http://twitter.com/Mido1000 Ahmed Omar

      Yeah …if they keep shutting the sites …i will boycott buying cds and i will never watch movies in the cinema ..however i did watch movies in the cinema although i was able to download them in high quality

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  • Sdliddo

    LOL.

    Prisoner#1: What you in for noobie
    Noob: oh nothing much. just got sentenced to 10years in prison sharing the sound of music.
    Prisoner#2: Fuck man. 10 years for wtf? I killed a man and it got me a sentence of 10 years.
    Noob: sucks balls
    Prioner#3: well you’re right about one thing. You’re gonna be sucking someone’s balls pretty soon.
    Noob: ORZ
    Prisoner#4: hahahaha!!!! 10 years for sharing music on the internet. My god, pretty soon this damn prison is gonna be crawling with nothing but noobs like you.
    Noob: Obviously the prison population will bloom this coming year. Gov’t gonna be spending more feeding prisoners
    Prioner#5: Hell no. I’m more worried about seeing shit like you get dumped in here. I did a bank job 4 years back and i’m out for parole next month. And you’re file sharing ass is gonna be hear for 10 years?????? Da fuck is this.

  • john grisham

    “As a result of illegal downloads young, emerging artists may have had their careers damaged. If you have illegally downloaded music you will have damaged the future of the music industry.”

    Actually these young emerging artists would never have a career at all if people didn’t share their music, nobody would even know about them at all.

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  • Ywq

    It’s not a fake but the message has now been toned down. Don’t SOCA realize that if they’re going to threaten you with your IP address then everyone will start using a non traceable one.

    http://www.thecmuwebsite.com/article/soca-removes-sinister-warning-message-from-former-rb-download-site/

    • http://7-books.net/ SleepyJohn

      What Soca actually needs to realise is that it is a public servant, employed by and paid by the public to protect them from serious organised crime. Its role is most certainly NOT to terrorise the public on behalf of serious organised crime, which many consider the Media Industry to be, based on its blatant extortion and intimidation techniques.

      Hopefully somone senior, with a brain cell or two and maybe even an inkling of what his job is, has made them remove this disgraceful “We are pals with the local criminal gangs so don’t come to us for justice” threatening notice. Such an attitude from the police should be a sacking offence.

      • http://7-books.net/ SleepyJohn

        Just read this on Slashdot: “SOCA readily admits that the scare message it showed visitors to the taken-down site was written ‘with input from industry”.

        Are they being paid by the MAFIAA to terrorise the public? This really is a serious abuse of power by SOCA and I hope they get seriously carpeted over it. It reads like some second-rate TV cop programme catering to the LCD.

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    it will not be long until corporations demand the copy and paste functions be removed from os’s.

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    A very good song that inspires our heart, strengthens our awareness of God’s presence and fills our spirit with that joyful and peaceful feeling that certainly lifts our spirit towards God.

    These are really the type of songs that we all need. Songs that proclaim God’s presence and love towards us and all his creation. St. Therese used to say: ‘For me … God is enough’, and I think that this is the message that is conveyed by this beutiful song. The presence of God in our life and daily deeds is definetely the key that opens our hearts to reach true happiness.

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