Feds shut down nine websites in movie piracy crackdown, page 2
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reply posted on 1-7-2010 @ 12:39 AM by EvilBat
reply to post by Tuvok112


you can watch hells kitchen on hulu they have all this season up for 60 days


rest is just me rambling about the topic

I on both sides of the fence

I understand that 1st run movies make them the bucks
I understand no one can afford the ticket price these days

I can watch tv but I refuse to
I watch tv shows on the net ( hulu )

I watch movies on the net through hulu or crackle
or youtube ( yup they have movies also )

I rent movies when I can
I buy movies I really like

Some site's should be taken down ( movie sites that do cam and stuff )

If the movie company wants to make cash off the net
charge me 5 bucks that you provide to see all your new stuff.

Let actors and directors producers and what not let them get max 20 25 an hour in stead of millions. That is what they wanted to do, and from what I seen they should be paid big bucks for crappy work. I can even act better then a few of them.

I honestly think that a few movie companies aught to be shaken down for monopoly ( Example ) WB
Well little while ago they bought out a small game company just so they can sit on the literary rights for lord of the rings, they said that since the game is running great they wont change a thing. BUT they did , they changed it to free to play with ( item mall stuff ), then went into a bankruptcy to rework there finances.

Now if they left the company alone and worked with jrrtolkens people on literary rights to make a movie they might of had something but instead tried a vulgar move.

To fix it they should have sites that offer ( legally ) a place to go to watch it for a monthly fee. I live with people who can't make it to the movies ( disability ) and they would love to see new flix, but buy time it comes to dvd heck even tv shows and or commercials are ripping off the movie and or showing to much of it to watch.

I support a good quality movie or tv show or software, but heck most of it now is just bunk, one new show is just a rip off of an older show, and so on and so on.

But I do say if the show is older then 5yrs let it be public domain.
I say once a tv show airs, its public domain.

ahh then how do companies make cash if people just wait for after tv ?

easy let them air it on the net ( with a commercial or 2 )

How do they make money after 5 yrs of sitting on the shelf for movies?
easy they had 5 yrs to make the money back,

either that or start putting out really good shows and movies and people might tune in


reply posted on 1-7-2010 @ 12:50 AM by ~Lucidity
reply to post by Zeta Reticulan

As compared to ninja? Not even close...they're a mere portal for the junk and spotty service the networks provide for their own shows. And yes...they have commercials. Well it sounds like I need to start remembering to set my DVR or no more TV for me. Only a a few shows worth watching anyway.



reply posted on 1-7-2010 @ 12:56 AM by KilrathiLG
reply to post by Zeta Reticulan


news-briefs.ew.com...

umm hulu is not gonna be that much more usefull if this link is true i may have clicked the wrong one but it seems there gonna start chargeing so there that one goes


reply posted on 1-7-2010 @ 01:16 AM by Titen-Sxull
reply to post by Durrilll


What these movie makers need to do is simple, learn a lesson from the pirates and do what the pirates do.

These studios and film makers can show their movies and shows online for free and make profits selling DVDs, special feature DVDs, merchandise, signed copies, advertising, downloads, etc.

They can do the jobs the pirates do and in competition with them nearly drive the pirates out of business.

Fighting their battles this way the movie industry will lose, plain and simple.


reply posted on 1-7-2010 @ 02:07 AM by ~Lucidity
reply to post by Desolate Cancer


I had that same thought myself. I know of a few in Canada.

If this data is accurate, it looks like ninjavideo.net was hosted in the Netherlands. Link

What this might mean is that they killed access to thisse servers from this country only? I don't know how that works. Anyone? Can anyone outside the U.S. get to the site using either it's DNS or IP address?

Oops...nevermind...found this in the OP:


The crackdown, which involved 100 agents working in 11 states and the Netherlands, was part of a renewed campaign dubbed Operation in Our Sites by federal authorities to curb Internet counterfeiting and piracy.





Officials said that those sites are no longer operating and that visitors will now encounter a banner announcing that law enforcement agencies has shut down the sites because they were trafficking in illegal downloads (as of 1:00 p.m. PST, however, some of these sites still appeared to be operational).
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Law enforcement officials said that these investigations were targeted specifically at the people running bit torrent sites, but that indicated that in the future they may widen their gaze to include individuals who download films and television shows illegally. While the nine sites shut down on Wednesday were all operating in the United States, Morton said that the agencies involved in the new initiative had jurisdiction in 44 countries.


Haven't seen any law enforcement banners yet. And you know they're gathering IPs hitting the sites.

[edit on 1-7-2010 by ~Lucidity]


reply posted on 1-7-2010 @ 06:56 AM by Jean Paul Zodeaux
reply to post by Majic


Finally a voice of reason. The justifications for piracy and plunder have been outrageously self involved, and short sighted. Granted, many of these studios have a long history of profiting off of films that have actually glorified pirates, i.e Pirates of the Caribbean, but those films costs rival what some small countries spend in a year.

A gourmet meal can cost quite a bit of money too. Why not a thread about how the greedy restaurateurs need to get a clue and allow their food to be handed for free? Automobiles? Why pay good money for a Lexus when you can just have some homey jack the damn thing for you? Nikes? Why pay for them when you can shoplift them? Just do it! Diamonds? Everybody knows they're a girls best friend, and friends don't charge an arm and leg to be worn. Just play the cat burglar and steal the rocks, after all, its all justified in today's world where ethics is just a word used by academics.
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