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Police Raid Pirate Site, Seize 60 Servers Following MPAA Complaint (torrentfreak.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: When it comes to shutting down pirate sites, few groups have a longer history than the Motion Picture Association of America. The Hollywood organization has dozens of pirate scalps under its belt and today is able to claim another. Serving more than a million users every day, FS.to was one of Ukraine's largest pirate sites. Ranked the country's 21st most popular site overall, the movie-focused platform attracted the attention of the MPAA and local rights holders alike. That has resulted in one of the biggest raids ever seen in the country. According to the cyber crime division of Ukraine's national police, an operation shut down the platform Monday following a complaint from Hollywood. The authorities say that 19 people suspected of running the site via a network of local and offshore companies were arrested. The operation to shut the site appears to have been significant. Raids took place at the offices and homes of the suspects, plus datacenters where equipment running the site was installed. Thus far around 60 servers have been seized from a range of local ISPs but the operation is still ongoing so the tally could increase. Local sources indicate that the authorities have linked local Internet company Ferazko Holding Inc. with FS since it owns several of the site's domains including FS.to, BRB.to and FS.ua.
...can go FUCK itself. Maybe Trump will do something worthwhile and shut it down, considering it's run by (((globalist elite Hollywood types))), and we can all move on with our lives.
Pirate site.. LOL.
Meanwhile, the Russians run sites where you can pay a few bucks for the same shitty rips and cam files as you find on torrent sites.
Don't believe me?
www.movieberry.com
"Pirate site" is meaningless. Did they have magnets? Torrents? Link to streams? Have their own streams? For profit?
No indeed.
They should have set that server farm up in the Crimea. Then they could have bribed the Russians to make sure shit like this did not happen.
Good luck suing the local downloaders.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
move to zeronet and ipfs
No indeed.
I guess that the US demanded something back for the billions invested in undermining the previously ELECTED government of Ukraine and installing the current puppets !
Selling weapons to any cunt in the world is good but sharing some videos will get u to jail... good luck in American EU Ukraine
I find it funny that the criminal organization called the MPAA is having raids performed on on their behalf, as wasn't it pirates that used to perform raids.
That's right, the MPAA has been found guilty of pirating movies. Thousands of movies have been found on MPAA computers that they have no license, or rights to.
The MPAA has also paid companies to issue DMCA takedown on their behalf. Where tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of DMCA takedown have been in violation of the law.
Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon what's the difference? All steal money from devs and control with walled gardens.
Instead of storing a music track (or movie) as an MP3 or MP4 file on a single server, why not break it up into a bitstream in chunks of less than a byte and distribute it amongst a large number of servers. Each file on each server would then appear to be nothing but a random bitstream bearing no relation to the actual original work.
To access/download said movie/music, all you need is the right piece of software and the key which activates a function that downloads the bitstream fragments from the relevant servers and re-orders them into the original track.
This way, no server will have a copy of the copyright-infringing material that could be recognised as the offending work so surely could not be the subject of a copyright violation.
Since the servers would be useless without the key and the key would be useless without the servers -- neither part constitutes the copyrighted work.
Yeah, it's a form of distributed encryption -- but how do copyright holders issue a takedown notice for something that is clearly not their copyrighted content?
Just a thought. Probably already been done because there's nothing new in the universe.
Someone should tell Fatty Kim about this racket. He'd probably setup a server farm for free if he learned it would knot Hollywood's panties. Good luck getting any legal action or police raids in North Korea.
one of the biggest raids ever seen in the country.
Really? Is this really how Ukrainians want their tax money spent? Kowtowing to the MPAA? I have a feeling you wouldn't have to ask too many people over there to find better ways they would like their money spent.
OH, this was an illegal COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT network. Not PIRATES.
Anyone who has had a loved one victimized by actual piracy gets rightfully pissed off when people glom onto the term.
There was first a DMCA law then it's step sister MPAA.
My party supports these laws. To prevent any serious issues I would suggest the following until things get ironed out.
1. Foreign Films. [The future of jobs/careers require that you learn a second or third language any ways ie. CIA, FBI, International Companies, etc.
2. Indepent Films. These films need some viewers.
3. Buy used DVDs or Borrow DVDs from friends, families, Library, DVD clubs
4. Rent DVDs Netflux, RedBox is only $1.50 for each DVD which is cheaper than the cost to Download.
5. DO NOT GO NEAR ANYTHING THAT IS COVERED UNDER MPAA 'Until U have sorted things out & determined which direction you want to take.'
6. I know that the Internet is most easiest. But, the top 5 from this list I think, is most helpful.
7. What I have found is that. People downloading tend to buy DVDs at a later time if they think the movie is really worth it.
8. I think if everyone gets the same mentality from this list. Things will be easier for everyone. Also, who is paying the FBI their salary? is it the MPAA or tax payers?
9. I hope this list doesn't cause a Boston Tea Party. I'm just trying to help a little. Yes, my party get's monies from them but they get your monies from Taxes/fbi.
What.cd Shuts Down Following Reported Raids in France
What.cd wasn't a mere torrent site, it was a library of alexandria for audiophiles. What was lost will probably never be recovered. This should be a crime against humanity, but no, muh copyrights...
To frame the argument, the MPAA/RIAA/BSA calls copyright infringement piracy. When you use their word, they automatically win.