Comments on: Operation Jackal: Police Track Down Charity Song Pirates https://torrentfreak.com/police-track-down-charity-song-pirates-090527/ Breaking File-sharing, Copyright and Privacy News Tue, 28 Oct 2014 21:09:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2 By: Jon /police-track-down-charity-song-pirates-090527/#comment-565672 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:37:05 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=13577#comment-565672 FIMI put the song up on bittorrent and then pirated it themselves to make P2P look bad. Apparently Italy is taking a page from the U.S. playbook and doing away with innocent until proven guilty.
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]]> By: anonymous /police-track-down-charity-song-pirates-090527/#comment-565363 Sun, 31 May 2009 02:44:05 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=13577#comment-565363 I’m actually kind of glad the song was leaked, it brings up the questing of does the charity money actually go to charity anymore? or just to some higher company playing the con artist now instead?

]]> By: anonymous /police-track-down-charity-song-pirates-090527/#comment-564945 Fri, 29 May 2009 10:19:58 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=13577#comment-564945 God its sad reading these posts. I’m amazed that only two feel that leaking something done for charity is immoral and low. I wonder just how many of those that have said they’d donate anyway have actually done so. Have you really? I’ve no idea of the intricacies of this case but making charity records etc can sometimes donate more than simply asking for donations alone. People have little time, and they get music and feel good about buying it at the same time as donating. They’re often people who might not have got round to specifically donating. That’s Point 1. Point 2 – addressing loads of the cynical remarks about money not actually going to charity. Why tarnish everyone with this brush. Perhaps there are dodgy charities – in which case do your due diligence before donating but there are plenty of utterly genuine cases. I know, I’m one. I’ve just made a show which as a result of viewers was able to donate a huge amount of much needed books to kids in care. The series is only able to be financed by pre doing deals with DVD, VOD etc. Without these, there is no series and no donations. Its a sensitive and precarious balance to get right and takes years. Neither am I a huge corporation making millions. Just someone passionate about what they do, who’s slogged it for 3 years doing crap jobs and remortgaging in order to get the show on screen. Piracy utterly threatens my show’s existence and therefore all of the fantastic impact it is currently having both educationally and charity wise. Reading these posts made me feel sick at the sheer ignorance and selfishness that it seemed to expose in so many. Please think about the consequences before so brashly branding copyright owners in the way that you do and bigging up piracy. You kill off more of us ‘smallies’ than you do the big corporates. :-(

]]> By: Xsqueezeme /police-track-down-charity-song-pirates-090527/#comment-564603 Thu, 28 May 2009 09:19:01 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=13577#comment-564603 Somthing odd about this story. Sounds like this was just to get plps attention to be aware of this song and donate to the victims.

Dr. Dre did the same thing by saying how mad he was that an imcoplete music track from his forthcoming album was accidently leaked by one of his homies. Sounds a bit fishy.

Just thinking out loud though I like to hear both sides of the story.

Time to donate.

]]> By: Greg /police-track-down-charity-song-pirates-090527/#comment-564601 Thu, 28 May 2009 08:53:01 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=13577#comment-564601 It is a charity song so it is about raising money but TBH people who download it are probably wouldn’t buy it.

]]> By: R /police-track-down-charity-song-pirates-090527/#comment-564587 Thu, 28 May 2009 06:38:43 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=13577#comment-564587 Charities = Scams.

Don’t trust them.

Commonly in London I get these charity types coming up to me trying to get my details on their nice PDA strapped to their neck, they’re wearing nice “company” t-shirts.

My solution is to tell them that they and their COMPANY disgusts me.

If you donate to charities you’re a twat.

]]> By: edit /police-track-down-charity-song-pirates-090527/#comment-564583 Thu, 28 May 2009 05:57:43 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=13577#comment-564583 @48 — and anyone else who doesn’t read the news.

Guys, just cause you don’t bother to READ the news, doesn’t mean it wasn’t covered. TPB trial didnt make the tv news much because they only have like 30mins and, hey, they have to prioritise.

It was covered pretty extensively on the bbc website (tho obv. not as extensively as here!)

Look:
http://search.bbc.co.uk/search?go=toolbar&uri=%2F&q=pirate%20bay&tab=ns&scope=all

The Guardian too ran big coverage on its Technology section, with specific articles on several days of the trial.

]]> By: Think about it /police-track-down-charity-song-pirates-090527/#comment-564561 Thu, 28 May 2009 03:28:58 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=13577#comment-564561 FIMI put the song up on bittorrent and then pirated it themselves to make P2P look bad. Apparently Italy is taking a page from the U.S. playbook and doing away with innocent until proven guilty. Now police are arresting those that reuploaded the torrent. Why else would there be 3 to arrest?

]]> By: Anonymous /police-track-down-charity-song-pirates-090527/#comment-564550 Thu, 28 May 2009 01:53:05 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=13577#comment-564550 Yes, give them(the people) a break(tax) for God’s sake :)

]]> By: Johnny Wilson /police-track-down-charity-song-pirates-090527/#comment-564530 Wed, 27 May 2009 22:12:24 +0000 http://torrentfreak.com/?p=13577#comment-564530 OMGosh dude give them a break!

Jiss

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