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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'
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(){}'
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
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