ICE takes down nine piracy sites

[stiffarmleft]

Re: ICE takes down nine piracy sites

The producers of the hurt locker made all that noise about suing people who used torrents to download their movie. Sure, it's illegal, but the movie had a limited release, was getting oscar buzz, and leaked almost half a year before it even released in the US. What did they expect would happen?

Exactly, there are people I know that have not even heard of the Hurt Locker to this day, pirating had very little to do with this movie's box office failure. Winning an Oscar and doing well at the box office aren't mutually exclusive, something the producers of the Hurt Locker fail to realize.

[Whitesox]

Re: ICE takes down nine piracy sites

Well, at least one of the piracy sites that took down is already back up and running under a slightly different URL.

The problem is sites that host this stuff, not the sites that link to it.

[Gotmadskillzson]

Re: ICE takes down nine piracy sites

Yeah trying to eliminate piracy is like trying to eliminate drugs, not ever going to happen as long as there is a consumer. Close down one, another one will just pop up.

[Pokes]

Re: ICE takes down nine piracy sites

Piracy is never going to go away, but it seems everytime the industries come up with a way to fight it (really strict DRM schemes), it just goes to way of encouraging more of it.

[chilli311]

Re: ICE takes down nine piracy sites

Yeah trying to eliminate piracy is like trying to eliminate drugs, not ever going to happen as long as there is a consumer. Close down one, another one will just pop up.

Does that make it okay?

[Gotmadskillzson]

Re: ICE takes down nine piracy sites

No. The thing about war on drugs and war on piracy is that law enforcement aren't targeting the source of the problem. The source of the problem aren't drug dealers and bootlegers. The source of the problem are consumers.

Until you change the mindset of consumers, bootlegers, drug dealers and hookers will always be around. If there was no demand for it, those people won't have a business.

[MattUMD224]

Re: ICE takes down nine piracy sites

well TVShack is back up already

[TheGamingChef]

Re: ICE takes down nine piracy sites

Charging at least 10.50 for a movie is pathetic and is probably hurting movie profits more than piracy. I wouldn't have even turned to sites like this for my movies if they didn't charge so much to go and to buy a DVD. It's ridiculous.

Charging $2.50 for a gallon of gas is pathetic, too. That's why I drive off after filling up without paying. Charging $1.00 for a cheeseburger at McDonald's is pathetic. I just grab that **** and run. My rent is way too high and probably hurting profits for my complex owner anyway. So I won't pay it.

Since when do you get to decide when the price is too high?? Talk about pathetic.

[SuperBowlNachos]

Re: ICE takes down nine piracy sites

Uhm, consumers have ALWAYS decided when the price is to high. Take an economics class.

[ChubbyBanana]

Re: ICE takes down nine piracy sites

http://www.operationsports.com/forum...0-25-09-a.html

Piracy, ROMs, and Warez
Operation Sports has a very strict policy against piracy, ROMs, warez, modding/chipping, and the illegal use of copyrighted material. Linking or giving information about any site that distributes illegal software, ROMs, media, mods/chips, or emulators, seeking help to circumvent any copyright laws, admitting to possessing and/or distributing illegal copyrighted material, or encouraging software or media piracy is grounds for ban depending on the offense. This goes for all copyrighted material, including but not limited to games, movies, music, and videos.

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