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11-Nation Raid on Net Pirates
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.""
I just can't believe our friends in the Chinese government didn't want to get in on this crackdown...
I am not left-handed, either!
This is not meant to be a flame, but...
If the US Justice Department can coordinate such an effort among 11 different nations and justice systems, why can't we find Osama Bin Laden?
Successfully condensing fact from the vapor of nuance since 1998.
Pirate the ones that the MPAA are unwilling to admit to making, and you're safe!
Nobody ever got arrested for pirating 'Gigli'
this whole thing would have happened earlier, but the FBI had to figure out how to say "Avast you scallawags" and "Aaaar!" in 11 different languages.
Wow, an 11 nation RAID? Now that is redundancy!
Either that, or the people pirating watched a lot of action movies that featured REALLY good escapes...
Makes me want make the Tshirt:
Osama Bin Laden is pirating music
NOW will you go catch the fucker?
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
I'm gonna fight 'em all ... ...
Eleven-nation army couldn't hold me back
I'm gonna rip it off
Taking their films right behind their back
And if I catch 'em coming back my way
I'm gonna serve 'em to you
And that aint what they want to hear
But thats what I'll do
perl -e 'foreach(values %SIG){$_="IGNORE";}while(){}'
( All(TM) cool(TM) cames(TM) have(TM) been(TM) trademarked(TM) )(TM)
Yes, I can just see the meeting between the 11 nations' head of police:
US copper: Sirs, we have been reading this Slashdot site, where Wil Wheaton (no no, stop cursing, he's not *really* like Wesley Crusher) has given us great insight. Want to hear what it is?
Germany: Ach, ya, I vant to know vat Vil Vheaton said.
France: Oui Oui, let'z ear it!
US: Well then, he said we should go after the source of pirated stuff, and not the downloaders. Isn't that very insightful?
UK: Bloody hell yes, let's go get the buggers!
Canada: Yeah, aboot time we cracked down on 'em hey.
Denmark: Dårn right, let's gø!
US: So all for Wil's plan?
All: Yeah/Oui/Ja/...!!
In short, I'm quite sure the *AAs had the idea too, and they have been working on it for a long time to get 11 countries to pull this off. No need for Wil's input there I think.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
I don't think it'd be too hard to learn swedish.
I believe it's just a matter of replacing Ws with Vs, extending the eeees, saying borgi-borgi-borgi a lot, and always talking about simple furniture and massages.
But it would only be useful if you are into tall blondes, comfy surroundings, and appreciacion of common sense.
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
...is if they made a MMORPG where you could get xp for reporting pirates. That way you could turn in your friends who run ftp servers full of games and movies for epic level items. There are a lot of MMORPG players out there and I'm sure they could catch all the pirates. You could call the game "Buccaneer's Bounty" and it could be awesome. If I wasn't so busy inventing True A.I. I'd probably make that game myself. If properly marketed it could make billions!
"But theres things mightier than a sword, and there are things mightier than pens. Guns and rap." - CrazyJim1
Don't forget Poland!!!
A bit more difficult than it would be to learn how to spell "Swedish"...
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
Any money I save from pirating goes straight to booze and smokes! Govt makes much more money on those items, so they are losing money by trying to limit my pirating!
"reality has a well-known liberal bias" - Steven Colbert
See, you're missing the point. Raping, killing, only affects a few folks per crime, and doesn't rob the RIAA/MPAA. Now, robbing those folks, THAT needs to be stopped!
And the RIAA/MPAA are also mis-figuring their losses. That 30-second Taco Bell spot that got pirated is really a loss of $53,547,236,987,362,768,967,342,568,325.45 if you figure it over the next five centuries. Let's get those losses right!
Maybe if we rename him to BitLaden the american authorities will try to shut him down.
You mean "Bork, bork, bork."