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11-Nation Raid on Net Pirates

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the won't-somebody-please-think-of-the-children dept.

Cobb writes "The US Justice Department announce a global crack-down on large scale internet pirates distributing first run movies. According to the article: "FBI agents and investigators in the other nations conducted 90 searches starting Wednesday, arresting four people and shutting down at least eight major online distribution servers for pirated works, a Justice official said. Authorities also seized hundreds of computers in raids in the United States, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, Portugal and the United Kingdom.""

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  1. And while they do this, Bin Laden escapes. by Adolph_Hitler · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    But hey, we have to protect the vital record industry from the cyber pirates er terrorists or whatever we call those people.

    Welcome to Germany.

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  2. Re:Gee, no China? by sTalking_Goat · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Coalition: We're raiding all the pirates in our country want to join in?

    China: Nah, The governers would be pissed if I shut down their side business...

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  3. China actually supports freedom of speech by Adolph_Hitler · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    at least if its digital speech in the form of a music CD or a DVD movie from America. You can forget about accessing that same information on the internet.

    So while you can watch movies about how America pretends to be, you can't really see how America actually is, its funny but if China actually did access the American internet and they saw the last set of elections we just had, what would they think of Democracy?

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  4. Re:Coordination of Efforts by Ph33r+th3+g(O)at · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Precisely. I kind of hope they're holding him in secret right now and torturing him, but keeping him quite alive.

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  5. Re:Gee, no China? by Infinityis · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Because even at the 90 raids-to-4 arrests ratio, when you multiply that by a few billion, you get a really big number, and they just don't have enough prison space.

  6. Re:11-Nation RAID? by Rudeboy777 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Wow, an 11 nation RAID? Now that is redundancy!

    You're referring to the content of your comment, right?

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  7. Re:Ah yes... by gnownaym · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Because only people in India (or Pakistan?) pirate for profit. Yeah. Way to go racism!

  8. Re:But they still haven't found BinLaden... by geoffspear · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    You're right. If only these cops would all start working on a cure for cancer, they'd have found one by now.

    BTW, what the hell are you doing reading Slashdot instead of studying biochemistry or something, you hypocritical asshat?

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