Following up on Torrent Shutdowns

dantheman82 and others have submitted a number of links about the recent closure of torrent mega sites like suprnova and torrentbits. The Unofficial Suprnova Closure FAQ comments that some torrent site maintainers have been arrested and that Suprnova was closed over fear of similiar fate. DeHavilland notes that the finnish police raided an unnamed torrent site. There's a lot of scary things here, but to me what is most scary is that American copyright owners can mobilize foreign police to do their bidding.

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unofficial?

[ack154]

So this is the "unofficial" one... but it's authorized? Or rather, they want you to report any other ones as not being authorized? Authorized by who? The same people who say it's unofficial?

I'm confused...

all of your police are belonged to U.S.

[Anonymous Coward]

>>but to me what is most scary is that American copyright owners can mobilize foreign police to do their bidding.

all of your police are belonged to U.S.!!!!

Re:Irony?

[Aphexian]

I put the blame squarely on Alanis Morrissette.

Re:What does mobilizing foreign police actually me

[gilesjuk]

What? people involved in the Hollywood taking a factual story and twisting it around to make it more exciting but factually incorrect? Wow, that's heavy :)

Ob Ghostbusters Quote

[Valiss]

In the US, you are exposing yourself to civil *and* criminal penalties depending on the infringement.

That's right, and you dont want us exposing ourselves.

OWNED!!!!!!

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

http://www.silentdragz.net/suprfaq/ is OWNED!

The site now reads:

OWNED BY YOGI! MOUAHAHAHAHAH

You fucker steal artists !

REAL FAQs ARE HERE AND HERE

Greetz to : b, th*m*r[ChezLeCoiffeur], Croc-La-Pute

FREE TORRENTS HERE

I haven't included linkage... I think we've all seen gotse.cx.