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ICE takes down nine piracy sites
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article published on 1 July, 2010
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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2. July 2010 @ 10:47 |
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Originally posted by amacgregor:
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Haha look at the boarder in Arizona... give it 3-5 more years and we will be giving back land to Mexico. ICE and the federal govt is suppose to be down there protecting our land that we bought off them centuries ago. Instead they are protecting rich people from not being able to milk more money out of us.
Educate yourself first the US didn't bought those territories it took them during the Mexico-American War on 1847. The solution for the border is not more police, fences and another police state but to regulate and stop the flow on illegal guns and money to Mexico.
You want to fix the immigration problems in the US help mexico, that simple.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.........some of the funniest stuff Ive heard since Obama was going to fix our country
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Interestx
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2. July 2010 @ 11:22 |
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Show me the artist who does not want their artistic work distributed/seen as widely as possible and I'll show you someone who really isn't an artist.
There's a world of difference bewteen a true artist and just another boring small-minded wannabe rich & famous person.
Sharing - no matter how many times they try and brainwash people into believing otherwise - is not 'piracy'.
They've been trying to push that crap since the 'home taping is killing music' BS in the 1970's.
Clearly it isn't.
What has hurt music so badly is a tidal wave of computer generated pap.
Similarly movies have never been as profitable.
The real pirates (those who sell fake, often shoddy and/or dangerous goods) are the problem but they are about as far away from sharers as can be.
.....and nothing the MPAA or RIAA or their Euro counterparts does a damned thing about any of that.
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3. July 2010 @ 00:43 |
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I just used to use them to catch up on tv episodes. Now I have to find a new site.
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ntense69
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3. July 2010 @ 00:48 |
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9 down 9000 trillion to go
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IamSandman
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3. July 2010 @ 03:29 |
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?Our nation and our economy is what it is today, because of the ingenuity and ideas of our people ? ideas that have been safeguarded through strong intellectual property rights protections."
You are right, more will pop up, more will thrive.
The real problem is most people don't know what a cache is and think that if they search using the term "without downloading" in their query in a search engine, and they find the movie "streaming" through a flash video player on a website and they watch it - they are not downloading it. They know that downloading movies is illegal but they think that it is possible (barely) to watch without downloading. LOLOLOLOL
Millions of people look for free movies using the term "without downloading" because they think they are not breaking the law, and in fact they are doing exactly the same thing as the guy downloading the movie directly through peer-to-peer networks or bit-torrent clients. COPYING IS COPYING IS COPYING. If you are going to prosecute a guy who downloaded the move directly through a file sharing network, you need to prosecute the millions of people who watch the movies because they are downloading the movie whether they know it or not - COMMITTING THE SAME ACT.
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3. July 2010 @ 03:38 |
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The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) should it be Sue 'cos they are out of theirs Jurisdiction Jobs.
Same goes to all those City and Town Cops in Arizona that are enforcing Immigration laws.....they are also doing jobs out of their Jurisdiction and they should it be Sue too !!!
Is just so WOW to see this kind of Enforcement Agencies Working for Corporations Agenda unlawfully to milk more $ and blood from us !
All the American Agencies should it been doing their Jobs....before picking on somebody else nose !!!!!
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3. July 2010 @ 10:30 |
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Originally posted by IamSandman:
?Our nation and our economy is what it is today, because of the ingenuity and ideas of our people ? ideas that have been safeguarded through strong intellectual property rights protections."
You are right, more will pop up, more will thrive.
The real problem is most people don't know what a cache is and think that if they search using the term "without downloading" in their query in a search engine, and they find the movie "streaming" through a flash video player on a website and they watch it - they are not downloading it. They know that downloading movies is illegal but they think that it is possible (barely) to watch without downloading. LOLOLOLOL
Millions of people look for free movies using the term "without downloading" because they think they are not breaking the law, and in fact they are doing exactly the same thing as the guy downloading the movie directly through peer-to-peer networks or bit-torrent clients. COPYING IS COPYING IS COPYING. If you are going to prosecute a guy who downloaded the move directly through a file sharing network, you need to prosecute the millions of people who watch the movies because they are downloading the movie whether they know it or not - COMMITTING THE SAME ACT.
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people dont care! people choose to stream because its more convenient and doesnt take up space on there hard drives not because they think its legal. the gov doesnt go after people streaming due to the sheer volume of it. if a kick ass movie comes out ill go pay the ridiculous amount at the movies to see it or just wait for netflix but im not waiting months to catch up on a show that just aired yesterday when i can do it for free
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3. July 2010 @ 11:52 |
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?Our nation and our economy is what it is today, because of the ingenuity and ideas of our people
Which is just a statement of the obvious, true and perfectly ok.
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ideas that have been safeguarded through strong intellectual property rights protections."
This is where it gets stupid.
There is 'protection' and then there is the current mania to monetise all copyright-able items.
People do not create in a bubble, almost all creative art, engineering, invention, innovation and design is done in an existing environment that inspires or provides the basis for further advance.
In other-words something truly 'unique' often isn't.
Most of our art and work stands on the backs of all the others that went before.
What we are seeing with the current American interpretation of copyright law (something it was never intended to do) is to 'ring-fence' all existing copyright-able articles so as to monetise them in perpetuity.
A truly idiotic and frankly insane idea, guaranteed to stifle and hold back artists and creators who will constantly be accused of some ridiculous infringement or of being required to pay royalty.
File sharing is just one face of this stunningly idiotic greedy blinkered nonsense.
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3. July 2010 @ 19:23 |
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nothing like the fed going after sharing.....
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DoomLight
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4. July 2010 @ 00:57 |
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never heard of any of those sites.
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4. July 2010 @ 00:57 |
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4. July 2010 @ 01:44 |
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never heard of any of those sites.
it doesn't matter about the sites.the fact is they are going after these types of sites and before you know it they could target a site that me or you or the average joe uses.In a way there taking away our internet freedom.it should be up to us if we want to watch or download something.There a lot of bad words i could use to describe what i think of ICE and the fact they are taking down sites but from what ive seen most of them words have already been used.
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juventini
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6. July 2010 @ 17:12 |
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What happen to the war on drugs? Doesn't Arizona need help with their borders? ICE has time to help Hollywood? WTF?
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juventini
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6. July 2010 @ 17:16 |
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Originally posted by ntense69:
9 down 9000 trillion to go
LOL!
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Tarsellis
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9. July 2010 @ 09:42 |
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WTF does illegal immigration, economic slavery, and prevention of fruit fly infestation have to do with a wesbite with a link to "pirated" information?
Another case of amerikan alphabet soup overstepping it's bounds for political purposes at the behest of media mafia owned congress men and agents.
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Winddog
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11. July 2010 @ 21:09 |
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shouldn't the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) be more focus on deporting illegals from the country?
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