The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has announced the shut down of nine movie piracy sites, the first sites in a major crackdown from federal officials.
The anti-piracy initiative is dubbed "Operation in Our Sites," and is aimed at taking down sites that stream or offer downloads of films that are currently in theaters.
Movies-links.TV, nowmovies.com, thepiratecity.org, ... [ read the full article ]
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Quote:"millions and millions of hits on a monthly basis."
Uh huh, and out of those hits, millions more had already paid to see the movie and just wanted a copy on their PC; another few hundred thousands re-dl'd because the first attempt failed for whatever reason and so forth...
So ICE thought immigrants were somehow involved in piracy? As far as I know, it's the american way. Ninjavideo was awesome, though. Whenever I was down I'd go watch some George Carlin and feel better, now I can't. This is some BULLSHIT. Are you gonna censor that too? Effing communists.
I understand the back-and forward debates about piracy equalling or not equalling freedom, and even the debate about taking the food out of the mouths of the poor starving movie executives. Not to mention the poor poor actors having to struggle by on a million or so less than last year. What really disturbs me is that what we're seeing here is the thin end of the wedge.
Now that the authorities are actively shutting down websites the whole foundation of the web is under threat. Where will they strike next (under the banner of 'copyright infringement') or some other legal infraction? before we know what's going on the web will be just another mouthpiece for the ruling elite. We'll be fed more misinformation and lies and we'll stomach it like the good little automata we're to be.
Orwell was SO RIGHT, but damn I wish to hell he wasn't. The final nail in the coffin of freedom of speech/information/anything really.
