BREIN, the Dutch anti-piracy outfit, has announced the complete shutdown of a torrent site "franchise hierarchy" that were all run by an individual who went under the name "Topspinner."
Last month the outfit took action against 75 torrent sites, each of which used similar templates and charged a fee on sign up. That fee allowed users to download all they want for a certain period of time.
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I'm not sure what is up with the current grammar attacks against the news team. I am curious as to why that is happening but that is an entirely different topic.
On the topic at hand, I think it is stupid that "Topspinner" had a bunch of sites that all had similar layouts and charges to join them.
I guess the guy thought he really could hide behind a computer screen or something because running that many sites with very similar looks is bound to get you noticed in exactly the way you don't want to be.
Heres how I see it, running torrent sites and ranking in add rev is a crime, its no different than selling copied CDs,dvds,ect, however until they make non profit based distribution a victimless crime that's unenforceable I'd rather side with the pirates of brimmy way.
people still pay to join torrent sites? all these dudes are doing is taking torrents from demonoid and tpb and reposting them on private trackers.
and pretty much every site i download from makes money from ads, how the hell else are they going to stay afloat? i love the fact that they are making loot off of piracy. they are making money and im still getting a movie for free. they are working within the free model, just like the move studios should be in the first place.
Originally posted by georgeluv: people still pay to join torrent sites? all these dudes are doing is taking torrents from demonoid and tpb and reposting them on private trackers.
and pretty much every site i download from makes money from ads, how the hell else are they going to stay afloat? i love the fact that they are making loot off of piracy. they are making money and im still getting a movie for free. they are working within the free model, just like the move studios should be in the first place.
The trouble is the free model should never make money.
It should be free with zero profit but the items traded, in cases of sites donations are legitimate but ad rev and what not not.
Of coarse I will lean heavily agisnt the current system of absolute control over distribution every time.
