Piracy Crackdown

[fireryone]

Taking a bite out of piracy :-/

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ct-piracy-20100701,0,2871905.story

 

Some of the sites taken down now display this:

[TheWebAtom]

This is a bit pointless in once sense, since US law only applies to people in the United States. Most of the file-sharing websites are hosted in Malaysia, Sweden etc. where such laws do not exist or are simply not enforced.

[fireryone]

This is a bit pointless in once sense, since US law only applies to people in the United States. Most of the file-sharing websites are hosted in Malaysia, Sweden etc. where such laws do not exist or are simply not enforced.

 

Thats where its interesting as from what I can find the ninjavideo servers were in the netherlands...

 

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ZxBdrRWl-WUJ:www.websitetrafficspy.com/ninjavideo.net+ninjavideo+servers+in+netherlands&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&client=firefox-a

[rlshosting]

They can't get everybody. More will just show up if they shut them down.

[Winapp2.ini]

Shut one down, five spring up.

 

What happened to maintaining net neutrality, Obama?

[Talldog9]

The first comment sums up my feelings on it. Use the funds for something worthwhile.