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MPAA starts new crackdown on movie piracy, takes down 9 sites
The new crackdown, called "Operation In Our Sites" was announced at Disney (of course it was). This whole thing rubs me the wrong way. ICE is part of Homeland Security, and acting as police for private movie studios hardly seems like a Homeland Security issue. Also, shutting down streaming movie sites, even if you seize their assets (as ICE has), is almost a futile pursuit. ICE says it will take a year for a new site to grow as big as the ones they just shut down, but I'm betting at least 2 will start up for every one they close.
Apparently, pharmaceuticals, games, music and other software are next on the ICE hit list.
[via CNBC]
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Subscribe to commentsBernieJun 30th 2010 5:59PM
This is absurd. The Department of Homeland Security has no place in acting as private police for the MPAA.
KevinJul 1st 2010 3:28AM
Eh, they're not. I don't agree with these tactics, but they're enforcing existing laws. Disagree with what they're doing, but let's not be intellectually dishonest with blanket non-statements like that.
the pl4gueJul 1st 2010 11:59AM
I agree. What the hell is HOMELAND SECURITY doing with movie piracy?
CertisAug 2nd 2010 10:47AM
Ninjavideo would stream stuff using the divx client. It was quite good, watched all my TV shows there.
It's quite disappointing.
JonnyJun 30th 2010 6:26PM
Wanna know why ICE helps out? cause the movie industry supports Obama. As soon as he's gone, they will go back to doing um...I dunno customs related law enforcement.
reedaleddyJul 2nd 2010 5:46PM
this is going to make me release as many movies as I can, This is what fuels us to do it more. Stop trying to protect the corrupt studios. If we like the movie we will buy it even if already watched it online to support the people involved it is the greedy studios and record labels that need to be wiped out.
Sam JJun 30th 2010 10:04PM
I don't download movies illegally but I would consider doing it just to spite the MPAA. Times have changed, information is free, adapt your business model and deal with it.
stinlen56Jul 1st 2010 3:32PM
The MPAA is behind the times, this is true. However, movies are not "information" they are content. Content takes time and energy to develop and requires compensation.
kojo87Jun 30th 2010 10:20PM
guess it is time to find out how effective PeerBlock is.
schajeeJun 30th 2010 10:26PM
Well, I know two of them have just re-routed themselves to new domains, all in the middle of an episode.
SugarDaddyJun 30th 2010 10:37PM
DHS is such a waste. Yet another awful Bush era legacy -- another giant bureaucracy with hundreds of billions of tax dollars to waste on things like weapon emplacements in the flyover states and apparently now being the personal enforcers for the movie industry. Obviously there's some fat to trim away in that bottomless pit of our tax dollars called Homeland Security. Ain't happening any time soon either.
stinlen56Jul 1st 2010 3:34PM
Homeland security's job is to pool the resources of law enforcement and intelligence domestically; hardly a waste. It's funny how you relate actions taken under this administration to the previous one.
SugarDaddyJul 1st 2010 4:04PM
Of course the Bush administration is relevant here. The bottomless pit of tax dollars known as DHS would not exist without the Bush administration war criminals that used 9/11 to bring DHS about.
Sure DHS has some benefits in theory. Mostly it's just another giant bureaucracy of corruption and waste that disproportionately allocates funds to Bumblefuck, Indiana over actual targets like NYC.
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slipperyslopeJun 30th 2010 11:36PM
its nice to know issues like this still rub people the wrong way... im glad i'm not the only one who recognizes there are issues here. im sorry but its going to be very difficult not say i told you so to those people who don't realize how screwed up things are in america these days. Everyone is quick to talk about are national debt but seem to look past the fact our tax dollars are being spent trying to police illegal downloads, television rights to college football conferences, and the latest and greatest facebook policies. oh wait, i apologize, i forgot.. its all about the money.
SoNJul 1st 2010 12:30AM
Who do you think makes the movies you watch? The guys sitting in the office. No, hard working people of all stripes and talents. Piracy hurts their ability to earn money and put food on the table. They are the ones who need it the most.
This effort protects the interests of everyone involved in content creation, not just those who make the big bucks. Yes, it IS about the money--the money that all those who work behind-the-scenes depend on. Think about it.
slipperyslopeJul 1st 2010 1:35AM
agreed 100%... and have thought about it.. piracy hurts these major movie studios right where it should, the crappy flicks. the music industry has adapted, the movie industry just happens to be the current victims, on deck... the ebook market. last i checked steve jobs is on the same page : )
SugarDaddyJul 1st 2010 9:10PM
Sadly, that ain't even the half of it. We give tax breaks to send jobs overseas. We subsidize the most profitable companies in the world, big oil, so they can cut corners and cause massive, catastrophic oil spills. We just bailed out the banksters on wall street for destroying the world's economy. We bailed out GM a few times so they could turn around a move labor out of the country while scheming to crush pensions (see AC Delco). Just recently a judge in DC ruled that a P2P suit involving a "joinder" of thousands of defendants who shared awful Uwe Boll movies and The Hurt Locker is all good to go forward -- so basically our laws allow law firms to extort money out of people. Credit card companies freely prey on people. Bankruptcy is all but gone for the middle class. The list goes on and on.
This system is specifically designed to destroy the middle class from every angle while propping up millionaires and billionaires as if they need it. Even the infotainment media has people joining "Tea Parties" fighting against their own best interests. This country is so fucked.
KevinJul 1st 2010 3:25AM
Er...I haven't heard of any of those sites. Easy pickins. Low hangin fruit.
David432111Jul 1st 2010 3:41AM
Movies-links.TV, literally has like 25 different domains that they alternate between. I use the site once in a while and since there's a new url almost everytime, I just search for "watch movies" and I find it.