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EliteTorrents shut down by U.S. customs and FBI
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article published on 25 May, 2005
EliteTorrents, a well known and one of the most used BitTorrent sites has been shut down today by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Here is the entire press release...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Acting Assistant Attorney General John C. Richter of the Criminal Division, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement ... [ read the full article ]
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neewbie
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25. May 2005 @ 19:40 |
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Just read that from another site. so stupid that site was the best ever!
rip elitetorrents i shall miss you!
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AustinM
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25. May 2005 @ 21:50 |
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"Internet pirates cost U.S. industry hundreds of billions of dollars in lost revenue every year from the illegal sale of copyrighted goods and new online file-sharing technologies make their job even easier,"
Hundereds of billions now? They increase the amount they lose every day.
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25. May 2005 @ 22:37 |
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hi all
RIP very sad ah.......
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Ludikhris
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25. May 2005 @ 23:26 |
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Ok so they said hundred(s) of billions of dollars meaning more than one.... so lets just say two just to be on the minimal side of what was said.... the GDP of 2003 was about 11 trillion dollars. With a little division you can go BAM 1.8% of GDP. What does that mean? That piracy causes a drop in GDP of about 2% and that is his minimal estimate.... are they inflating the figures? HELL YA. Think of every service and product traded in the US that creates 11 trillion dollars. What this dong is saying, given his statistic, is that for every 98 dollars that are created two of them are stolen to piracy. Lets see now.... how many products are there out there.... rent, McDonalds, clothes... however somehow we managed to pirate a whooping 2% of the total of all dollars created...
BULL $H!+
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Kyoji24
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25. May 2005 @ 23:43 |
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Damn, and just when I starting getting the things I needed from bittorrents site. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
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26. May 2005 @ 00:23 |
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"[11:29pm]«@ [******]» Ok this is the deal people listen closely
[11:30pm]«@ [******]» This whole ordeal started with a STOLEN workprint form lucas films
[11:30pm]«@ [******]» This promted a FEDERAL investigation on that particular release
[11:30pm]«@ [******]» Now MPAA could not touch ET (civily) but because a CRIMINAL
[11:30pm]«@ [******]» CASE was issued that now changes the RULES
[11:31pm]«@ [******]» lucas wanted someones head on a platter
[11:31pm]«@ [******]» Said it cost the film Big dollars making it a felony
[11:31pm]«@ [******]» Said it was taken over seas to foreign countries
[11:31pm]«@ [******]» thus bringing in ICE
[11:32pm]«@ [******]» NOW someone from ET leaked to the WRONG people that ET had this release up
[11:32pm]«@ [******]» 6 hours prior to its first showin
[11:32pm]«@ [******]» And that it was DL 10k times
[11:32pm]«@ [******]» This focused the CRIMINAL case on to ET
[11:33pm]«@ [******]» (thinking it was probably someone here) BUT NO IT WAS NOT ANYONE FROM ET WHO STOLE THE MOVIE
[11:33pm]«@ [******]» FBI shuts ET down issue warrants for admins PC
[11:33pm]«@ [******]» NOT ALL WARRANTS WERE ET STAFF
[11:33pm]«@ [******]» TWO admins were raided and ONLY their PC was taken
[11:33pm]«@ [******]» NO arrest have been made
[11:33pm]«@ [******]» No other details have been leaked
[11:34pm]«@ [******]» Right now there is still a CRIMINAL case going on with the SW3 WORKPRINT RELEASE
[11:34pm]«@ [******]» Those who DL may have something to worry about
[11:34pm]«@ [******]» BUT for now only those who made it AVAILABLE has to worry about it
[11:35pm]«@ [******]» NOw I DO NOT
[11:35pm]«@ [******]» KNOW what is to become of the logs with the star wars DL
[11:36pm]«@ [******]» I DONT KNOW what ****** is doing
[11:36pm]«@ [******]» or gone to
[11:36pm]«@ [******]» This came from a MOD who called to update someone on what happened to the 2 admins
[11:36pm]«@ [******]» That is it for now"
"Directly from Elitetorrents on the Efnet network"
The MPAA seems to think they can dictate what people should do or not do on the Internet, now just because they shut do one torrent site does NOT under any circumcises mean that there going to stop illegal file sharing because at the end of the day people will always find new ways to get around annoying things like the MPAA. I would say torrents sites are nothing at all when it comes to illegal file sharing.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 26. May 2005 @ 05:15
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maheswara
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26. May 2005 @ 02:01 |
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Ojha!!!
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fancymojo
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26. May 2005 @ 02:19 |
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et isnt the only site i tried to open up chronictracker.com and i get this
Internet Explorer was unable to link to the Web page you requested. The page might be temporarily unavailable.
i wonder if the same thing happened to them?
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26. May 2005 @ 03:21 |
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I think there just playing it safe for the time being.
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wick780
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26. May 2005 @ 04:09 |
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For every site they take down 10 more will spawn....it will be a battle of epic porportions...a battle we can not lose...
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26. May 2005 @ 04:10 |
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What the MPAA and RIAA fail to understand is this..
1)Information Technology is a perpetually evolving beast. YOU CAN NOT KILL IT !!
2)They are also largely to blame for their own problems, for example.. Who brought internet downloads, torrent and other P2P networks to the attention of the general public. THEY DID !!
3)Who leaked the majority of the recent high profile products to the internet in the first place. THEY DID
People like Lucas Arts should take a long hard look at themselves before they go lashing out. This exercise was a gross misuse of power and public money!!
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Letukka
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26. May 2005 @ 04:21 |
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This exercise was not about P2P, it was about the STOLEN workprint of Episode Three. It´s illegal to share/download em nomatter what your copyright law says. I dont think that a "normal" copy would´ve caused this much fuzz.
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26. May 2005 @ 04:33 |
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This exercise was not about P2P, it was about the STOLEN workprint of Episode Three
of course it about P2P, if it was purely about the workprint release we would be seeing LucasArts Vs JonDoe(workprint liberator)
Yes downloading is a criminal offense (in this case as opposed to civil law) but who let it out?
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Mantle7
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26. May 2005 @ 04:35 |
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Okay, I know "someone" who downloaded this workprint.
Should he be worried at this point??
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26. May 2005 @ 04:53 |
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Anyone who downloaads anything of this nature is taking a risk. Whether this is an acceptable risk or not is for you 'friend' to decide.
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26. May 2005 @ 04:59 |
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Well if his friend is from the US i would worry.
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fancymojo
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26. May 2005 @ 05:05 |
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i dont think there going to come after the 1,000's opon 1,000's of people who d/l'ed this workprint. good luck on that one
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26. May 2005 @ 05:12 |
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No they can't go after every one because not every 1 is in the US and that means they don?t have lots of power in other countries, but they do have all the power they need when it comes to people in the US and if they really want to show they wont stand for it then they will bust every 1 that dl it from ET that are in America, people will say they can bust non Americans by exporting them but i CAN NOT see governments export there citizens just because of something like that not as if they murdered anyone. Plus it cost way to much money to do it.
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Letukka
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26. May 2005 @ 05:34 |
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"of course it about P2P, if it was purely about the workprint release we would be seeing LucasArts Vs JonDoe(workprint liberator)"
They´re just trying to find out who leaked the workprint on P2P and Elitetorrent was the best place to start looking.
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26. May 2005 @ 05:42 |
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I still disagree, i figure LucasArts is the best place to start looking.
:)
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26. May 2005 @ 06:22 |
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i figure LucasArts is the best place to start looking
Yeah, after it was a member of there staff that leaked it.
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miser
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26. May 2005 @ 06:47 |
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I was just wondering if anyone one in Canada would have to worry about downloading the workprint release
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26. May 2005 @ 06:56 |
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Well it is illegal.
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Shemyaza
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26. May 2005 @ 06:58 |
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I don't think it was Ep III alone that killed the site, but once attention was brought to it and they saw how many movies were there they had to drop a heavy hammer as opposed to say a cease and desist request if they were only tracking Ep III and a few other movies.
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kanum
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26. May 2005 @ 07:16 |
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Thats pretty stupid, now the bush admisnistration is blaming pirates for the bad economy they caused i really think they should look at how rich those corpataion are i mean seriously a lot of people just go buy stuff instead of download it because it's such bad qulity and the games aren't playable online some times its like getting an evaluatiion that you can keep forever but with some features disabled
"The theft of copyrighted material is far from a victimless crime," said Assistant Director Reigel of the FBI. "When thieves steal this data, they are taking jobs away from hard workers in industry, which adversely impacts the U.S. economy. The FBI remains committed to working with our partners in law enforcement at all levels and private industry to identify and take action against those responsible."
RIGHT... go and look at how rich they are even if 10,000 people downloaded it
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