US Government Censors 70 Websites

[Takedown3]

and nothing of value was lost

[Meresgi]

I know I download a lot of my music because it's extremely hard to even find to buy. I listen to a lot of trailer music like Hans Zimmer, Xray Dog, ES Posthumus and Two Steps from Hell, and I can't really head down to the Wal-mart and buy their CDs. As far as movies go, if I really liked the movie when I downloaded it, ill go watch it in theaters for the large screen experience. Though most movies I download i'm not too sure of to even purchase a ticket...and 90% of the time i'm right and glad I didnt go to the theater. I steal programs like Photoshop, Maya and shit because they cost far more then I can possibly afford, yet I need them for my studies..and don't use them for professional projects so there's no harm done.

[Ashmada]

The scary part of this is obviously the "acting on mere accusation" part.
Anyone can be arsed to make a Robespierrebama photoshop?

At some point i expect our internet bills to go up to justify for the lost money to labels/companies. The extra cost won't even go to the developers or artists just the labels/major companies exec.

If the US copies our retarded politicians, that's likely.
We (in France and Belgium) do pay a tax to the music/movie industry, albeit not on internet bills, but on any storage device : CDs, Hard Drives, flash drives,... on the presumption that we WILL definetely use it to store pirated media content.
Even a company buying HDDs has to pay the tax, even though it's obvious said company won't use them to download the latest Pussycat Dolls release.

Of course, anyone with a brain just buys in Germany or Lux, so the stupid tax only ends up hurting national retailers.


Unrelatedly, I'm surprised Firas' trolling worked. Was quite obvious, I thought.

[Weeks]

They went through the court, showed probable cause, and seized the domain names pending a court case. I'm not sure what is so novel or surprising about this, since it's the way the justice system works everywhere else.

[Kerberoz]

I don't think anyone has ever purchased a home license for Photoshop or any other "professional" imaging/modeling software. They don't even bother trying to stop piracy anymore since they make like $3000 or something ridiculous for every 1-year 1-machine business license.

[Maguspk]

I have 2 friends who purchased copies actually.

[kuronosan]

Then they're fucking retarded. Most 'professional' software companies know that their stuff is going to get pirated by the small fry, which is why they have such terrible DRM. They can catch the people using it for business purposes, though, and make killer profits on court settlements and lawsuits; not to mention they will make tons of money off of the people that do buy it.

You really think it's worth it to pay $500 for an Adobe Suite upgrade because they added a few more buttons for functions most people already knew how to do?

Come on. That's like paying $30 for a new Barbie doll because they added a 0.50 hat.

On topic - who gives a shit, these were most likely not legitimate business websites anyway.

[Zilong]

I bought a laptop with windows 7 home premium over the weekend, imagine my rage when I found out the damn thing can't display/input other languages, and I need to spend 200 bucks upgrade to ultimate to fix that.

How are you not supposed to crack shit when it's that much of a blatant ripoff, I remember buying a netbook for my sister and finding out that windows 7 starter doesn't even allow you to change wallpaper...

[kuronosan]

windows 7 starter doesn't even allow you to change wallpaper...

Are you shitting me?

[Bingbong]

I'm sorry but i'm glad I didnt shell out fucking 60$ for Force Unleashed II to find out it was a whole 4hrs long and absolute shit.

Jesus, thanks for saving me the $45 buying it used.

[Kuya]

4 hours? lol

[Cyn]

Are you shitting me?

It's quite true. You have to use a 3rd party program to change it.

[Zilong]

You could have been spending those 4 hours on vanquish, which is a way better investment

[Cephius]

So much wrong in one biased article, wow. This guy clearly didn't research the topic he was commenting on. I like how his "proof" of ICANN involvement is the owner of TorrentFreak speaking to "someone" at GoDaddy and that person saying it was "totally ICANN". big fucking LOL.

If you go to ANY of those sites, you'll see that a seizure warrant was issued and that none (one? torrent-finder?) of them are torrent related. They're mostly related to sales of physical goods, football jerseys, DVDs, shoes, golf stuff.. all probably rip-offs. Sounds like the government doing it's job to me, who is going to miss sites that sell rip-offs?

So seriously, calm down, do a little research, your torrents are safe (for now) and really who uses torrentfreak anyway

[kuronosan]

Same people that are in that script-kiddy land. Like I said; nothing of value was lost.

[Cephius]

I mean, I get there's concern over how the warrant was executed but it seems like a huge overreaction for things that were blatantly illegal and under US domain. I don't know where the author got his " US pressing their views on the world again" when all of the domains were US domains, on US servers, on US hosts. Hur?

[kuronosan]

I mean, I get there's concern over how the warrant was executed but it seems like a huge overreaction for things that were blatantly illegal and under US domain. I don't know where the author got his " US pressing their views on the world again" when all of the domains were US domains, on US servers, on US hosts. Hur?

Big gubment.

[Cephius]

Big gubment.

Sarah Palin 2012 free my NFL knockoff jerseys and golf clubs!

[Dimmauk]

So much fake outrage. It's totally the jew's and Obama's fault. They hate Golf, Jerseys, and Handbags.

[Tempyst]

Don't forget scarves

As a proponent of scarves I'm furious