Police Raid Takes Down Dozens of File-Sharing Sites

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Is it just me or does it seem like there are an awful lot of file-sharing sites being raided by the police lately? Time for these guys to get a new hobby. :eek:

Police have raided the Swedish hosting company PRQ today, possibly looking for servers connected to copyright infringement. PRQ was founded by Pirate Bay co-founders Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij and is known to host or route many file-sharing sites. The target of the raid has not been confirmed by the authorities, but The Pirate Bay team informs TorrentFreak that they are no longer using PRQ’s services.
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Companys just need to realize piracy is a cost of doing business, I as a tax payer am getting tired of hear about company's using the police to do raids at their bidding.
 
H@RD5 said:
Companys just need to realize piracy is a cost of doing business, I as a tax payer am getting tired of hear about company's using the police to do raids at their bidding.
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i'd be more impressed if they stopped ripping off previously success flilms

>the raid
>judge dredd
 
Piracy is such a broad statement though. Like shit in the 90's I use to make mix tapes from borrowed CD's and rip rented DVD's to VHS to watch at my own leisure. Shit lock me up, throw away that key :rolleyes:

Where is the line to be drawn? :confused:
 
Explains why some of the sites I check for "Linux distros" are down. But they are just news (ala such and such leaked) sites and not hosts.
 
I love how times have changed. Remember when police raids were for crimes that actually hurt society? Nothing like using a government funded organization working for privately owned corporations.
 
Spidey329 said:
Explains why some of the sites I check for "Linux distros" are down. But they are just news (ala such and such leaked) sites and not hosts.
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You need to stop downloading 50 "linux distros" a day :p
 
In other news, child molesters walk the streets freely while the police are preoccupied chasing these people.... Nice....
 
You laugh, but I bet you could buy your own police station at this point. Probably a half mil in initial cost + 20-30 police officer salaries and bam, you have your own police to raid whoever you feel is infringing on your copyrighted material!

I am not even sure if anyone would bat an eye if one of the companies did that at this point...
 
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lloose said:
I love how times have changed. Remember when police raids were for crimes that actually hurt society? Nothing like using a government funded organization working for privately owned corporations.
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At no point in history am I aware of a time in which a state did not commit acts of aggression against its subjects for "victim-less crimes". Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong but it has always been something (War on Drugs, War on Gay Marriage, War on Pornography, War on stores who open on Sundays, War on those who follow a different religion, War on those who helped free slaves, etc. etc).
 
Simple solution. Abolish copyright. Then all this time and money wasted on litigation can be utilized elsewhere, congress can focus on more important issues and the rest of the world will no longer be intimidated,bullied and terrorized by big media cartel.
 
NeghVar said:
Simple solution. Abolish copyright. Then all this time and money wasted on litigation can be utilized elsewhere, congress can focus on more important issues and the rest of the world will no longer be intimidated,bullied and terrorized by big media cartel.
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Although the copyright system, like the patent system is flawed, it is interesting that it is always a person who doesn't own a copyright and probably never will that promotes the elimination of copyrights

If you had an internet cartoon like The Oatmeal would you want someone republishing your art on their sites and profiting from it ... if you had spent many months/years writing a new game program would you just give it away for free or would you want to sell it (would you agree with some on the net that it isn't your choice at all - that you MUST give it away because they are entitled to use it for free) ... if you wrote a song that was really doing well would you want people taking it for free ... if you had written the next Harry Potter type novel would you just put it out on the internet for everyone to take or would you want to try and sell it

Although some of the rights holders are in the wrong too, the people who are opposed to the whole concept of Intellectual Property aren't necessarily right either ... if a person wants to protect their intellectual property that should be their choice, not the choice of the consumer ... using the law to protect that choice doesn't make the government a Police State ... nor does the ability to utilize someone else's IP for free suddenly turn you into a Robin Hood/Freedom fighter type ;) ... fix the flawed system, if possible ... but don't replace the so called tyranny of copyright with the tyranny of everything must be free and unprotected :cool:
 
Spidey329 said:
Explains why some of the sites I check for "Linux distros" are down. But they are just news (ala such and such leaked) sites and not hosts.
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I knowwwwwwwwww :eek: our bay isn't working and after I finish the current 40GB utorrent will be idle :(
 
Doesn't the FBI still have a "most wanted" list? Why don't we use these resources taking down real fucking criminals.
 
dnottis said:
Doesn't the FBI still have a "most wanted" list? Why don't we use these resources taking down real fucking criminals.
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This was in Sweden ... not the USA ... maybe Sweden has fewer hardcore criminals than this country :D
 
kbrickley said:
Although the copyright system, like the patent system is flawed, it is interesting that it is always a person who doesn't own a copyright and probably never will that promotes the elimination of copyrights

If you had an internet cartoon like The Oatmeal would you want someone republishing your art on their sites and profiting from it ... if you had spent many months/years writing a new game program would you just give it away for free or would you want to sell it (would you agree with some on the net that it isn't your choice at all - that you MUST give it away because they are entitled to use it for free) ... if you wrote a song that was really doing well would you want people taking it for free ... if you had written the next Harry Potter type novel would you just put it out on the internet for everyone to take or would you want to try and sell it

Although some of the rights holders are in the wrong too, the people who are opposed to the whole concept of Intellectual Property aren't necessarily right either ... if a person wants to protect their intellectual property that should be their choice, not the choice of the consumer ... using the law to protect that choice doesn't make the government a Police State ... nor does the ability to utilize someone else's IP for free suddenly turn you into a Robin Hood/Freedom fighter type ;) ... fix the flawed system, if possible ... but don't replace the so called tyranny of copyright with the tyranny of everything must be free and unprotected :cool:
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That was intended as sarcasm. There would be little motivation to produce anything if one could not profit off of it.
 
NeghVar said:
That was intended as sarcasm. There would be little motivation to produce anything if one could not profit off of it.
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Sorry ... there are some who propose this without being sarcastic and the caffeine levels in my blood were still too low to fully recognize sarcasm :D
 
kbrickley said:
Sorry ... there are some who propose this without being sarcastic and the caffeine levels in my blood were still too low to fully recognize sarcasm :D
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NP. But I do believe that the copyright system, like the patent system, is flawed and needs to be updated for the digital age.

I have been taking web design classes and one of the things we have to do to each page is include copyright info in the footer. Out of a class of 21, I was the only student to put creative commons in stead of copyright since this site is of educational purpose and no commercial value.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
 
Spidey329 said:
Explains why some of the sites I check for "Linux distros" are down. But they are just news (ala such and such leaked) sites and not hosts.
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Luckly my favorite "Linux Distro" site hasn't been hit yet :)
 
And yet after all they do, a little site known as "The Pirate Bay" is still ARRRRGHHHH'ing! in their faces. I find it to be no surprise really.
 
Guess what.

I'd pay for a service that provided all my digital entertainment needs in one place. I have hulu and Netflix and they provide about 10% of what I need....and they provide it poorly at that.

Torrent/usenet sites offer me what I want, when I want it, and how I want it. Content providers should have never tried to fight this litigiously and from the start should have been battling this technologically. They'd be in a much better position.

Some laws never change. Evolve or die. This will never change.
 
stevedave said:
I'd pay for a service that provided all my digital entertainment needs in one place. I have hulu and Netflix and they provide about 10% of what I need....and they provide it poorly at that.
Torrent/usenet sites offer me what I want, when I want it, and how I want it. Content providers should have never tried to fight this litigiously and from the start should have been battling this technologically. They'd be in a much better position.
Some laws never change. Evolve or die. This will never change.
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+1

A few years ago Netflix was as close to as anyone has come to being the solution.

The low price for DVD's in the mail and streaming gave me access to most of what I'd want. If they had been allowed to continue expanding the selection, without the media companies jacking up thier prices, the torrent sites would be a tiny fraction of what we see today.
Instead, the media companies got greedy, jacked up the prices, and restricted content. So I ended up canceled Netflix just like million of others.
 
nutzo said:
+1

A few years ago Netflix was as close to as anyone has come to being the solution.

The low price for DVD's in the mail and streaming gave me access to most of what I'd want. If they had been allowed to continue expanding the selection, without the media companies jacking up thier prices, the torrent sites would be a tiny fraction of what we see today.
Instead, the media companies got greedy, jacked up the prices, and restricted content. So I ended up canceled Netflix just like million of others.
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I love this little comic from The Oatmeal. Evil HBO!

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones
 
stevedave said:
Guess what.

I'd pay for a service that provided all my digital entertainment needs in one place. I have hulu and Netflix and they provide about 10% of what I need....and they provide it poorly at that.

Torrent/usenet sites offer me what I want, when I want it, and how I want it. Content providers should have never tried to fight this litigiously and from the start should have been battling this technologically. They'd be in a much better position.

Some laws never change. Evolve or die. This will never change.
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This. If there was a site I can actually download a movie legally, I'd use it. But there is none, and I don't want physical media, and I don't want to depend on streaming... I want to own the file.

They also have to stop limiting who can view what. "Oh you're in Canada, you can't view that." Ok fine, I'll pirate it then. :rolleyes:
 
yujie said:
What happen to peace on the streets?
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This. We, and the police, would be so better off without all these fake crimes.

Anyway, this is like the third of fourth raid on PRQ.
At least they didn't take 200 servers unrelated to the case this time.
 
lloose said:
I love how times have changed. Remember when police raids were for crimes that actually hurt society? Nothing like using a government funded organization working for privately owned corporations.
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stevedave said:
I'd pay for a service that provided all my digital entertainment needs in one place. I have hulu and Netflix and they provide about 10% of what I need....and they provide it poorly at that.

Torrent/usenet sites offer me what I want, when I want it, and how I want it. Content providers should have never tried to fight this litigiously and from the start should have been battling this technologically. They'd be in a much better position.
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Both of these. This copyright issue is so archaic and a waste of good resources. Instead of being greedy trying to shut down file sharers, why not use the money towards developing some useful content providing services? Make them global too, since us non-Americans can't even get anything remotely good (no Hulu, no Pandora, severely watered down Netflix, etc.) Copyright law has not caught up with technology yet, so the lawmakers need to get cracking before any of this nonsense stops.
 
Have your house broken into and lose everything.Then you will fully understand your importance, relative to the ultra wealthy, or corporations.
Our government has even machine gunned people on behalf of corporations. While concealing plutocracy and fascism has become much more sophisticated it exists today,nonetheless.
 
NeghVar said:
There would be little motivation to produce anything if one could not profit off of it.
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How about decades after their death? Worse it keeps getting extended. Copyright laws now are just stupid, and excessively punitive to individuals, while the big music companies are allowed to get away with massive infringement and theft.
 
Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
 
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