Fed Thugs Move Against Online Movies
DOJ Seizes Seven Websites For Pirated Movie Content
"The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office are seizing and shutting down seven popular websites accused of hosting pirated movies, a move the U.S. attorney in Manhattan said is a step in increasing the fight against copyright infringement.
Referring to the seven sites as "among the most popular" websites for distributing illegal copies of movies, the government highlighted illegal copies of films currently in theaters, such as "Toy Story 3" and "The A-Team," for evidence to obtain the warrant. One site, Movie-Links.tv, was reported as the 258th most popular website in the world, with 3.3 million visitors each month.
Some of the sites allowed users to directly upload, download and stream the content, while others gathered links to the sites that hosted the content.
The seven sites are TVShack.net, Movies-Links.tv, Filespump.com, ZML.com, Now-Movies.com, ThePirateCity.org and PlanetMoviez.com. The websites are listed to computers located domestically in Colorado, Florida, Illinois and internationally in the Czech Republic, Germany, the Netherlands, and the U.K.
Visitors to these web pages will now be redirected to a page that notifies them the sites have been seized by the government, though hours after the seizures were announced four of the sites appeared to still be working properly."
corporate bottom line shall not be threatened
The above scare tactic was found at a movie listing site, a place that doesn't even host the sacrosanct material the feds ostensibly are so hot to protect, but merely links to other places where you can view the films.
This is just grandstanding and meaningless bullshit probably to coincide with other internet obstruction and attempts to turn the tubes into something resembling tame cable TV.
I'm a big fan of online filmgoing. And you know something? We're being lied to again, this time about pirated movies online. Here's what I wrote about a very pleasurable flick called "Ink" that's easily viewed on your computer, and here's the director of that effort about his film being available online for free:
"Dear Fans and Friends,
Over the weekend something pretty extraordinary happened. Ink got ripped off. Someone bit torrented the movie (we knew this would happen) and they posted it on every pirate site out there. What we didn’t expect was that within 24 hours Ink would blow up. Ink became the number 1 most downloaded movie on several sites having been downloaded somewhere between 150,000 to 200,000 times as far as we can tell. Knowing there’s absolutely nothing we can do about it, we’ve embraced the piracy and are just happy Ink is getting unprecedented exposure.
As a result, Ink is now ranked #16 on IMDb’s ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1071804/ ) movie meter and is currently one of the top 20 most popular movies in the world.
This all started as a result of the completely underground buzz that you’ve each helped us create. We’ve had no distributor, no real advertising and yet the word of mouth that you’ve generated has made the film blow up as soon as it became available worldwide. So many of you came to see the movie multiple times, bringing friends and family and many of you have bought the DVD and Blu-ray from us. All of this built up and built up and suddenly it exploded.
We don’t know exactly where this will all lead, but the exposure is unquestionably a positive thing."
Here's the truth - one so-called illegal viewing online does not lead to a lost sale in the market. On the contrary, if a production is good and valued the exposure will lead to more sales. A good movie will do better through word of mouth and internet exposure. I watched Avatar online and can't wait to see it again on IMAX in 3D. They absolutely do not want people to understand this, insisting instead to guarantee corporate profits through archaic, heavy handed thuggery.
You see, the opposite is true. A shit movie online will get rightfully torn to shreds in the court of public opinion. That's what they fear the most.
"The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office are seizing and shutting down seven popular websites accused of hosting pirated movies, a move the U.S. attorney in Manhattan said is a step in increasing the fight against copyright infringement.
Referring to the seven sites as "among the most popular" websites for distributing illegal copies of movies, the government highlighted illegal copies of films currently in theaters, such as "Toy Story 3" and "The A-Team," for evidence to obtain the warrant. One site, Movie-Links.tv, was reported as the 258th most popular website in the world, with 3.3 million visitors each month.
Some of the sites allowed users to directly upload, download and stream the content, while others gathered links to the sites that hosted the content.
The seven sites are TVShack.net, Movies-Links.tv, Filespump.com, ZML.com, Now-Movies.com, ThePirateCity.org and PlanetMoviez.com. The websites are listed to computers located domestically in Colorado, Florida, Illinois and internationally in the Czech Republic, Germany, the Netherlands, and the U.K.
Visitors to these web pages will now be redirected to a page that notifies them the sites have been seized by the government, though hours after the seizures were announced four of the sites appeared to still be working properly."
corporate bottom line shall not be threatened
The above scare tactic was found at a movie listing site, a place that doesn't even host the sacrosanct material the feds ostensibly are so hot to protect, but merely links to other places where you can view the films.
This is just grandstanding and meaningless bullshit probably to coincide with other internet obstruction and attempts to turn the tubes into something resembling tame cable TV.
I'm a big fan of online filmgoing. And you know something? We're being lied to again, this time about pirated movies online. Here's what I wrote about a very pleasurable flick called "Ink" that's easily viewed on your computer, and here's the director of that effort about his film being available online for free:
"Dear Fans and Friends,
Over the weekend something pretty extraordinary happened. Ink got ripped off. Someone bit torrented the movie (we knew this would happen) and they posted it on every pirate site out there. What we didn’t expect was that within 24 hours Ink would blow up. Ink became the number 1 most downloaded movie on several sites having been downloaded somewhere between 150,000 to 200,000 times as far as we can tell. Knowing there’s absolutely nothing we can do about it, we’ve embraced the piracy and are just happy Ink is getting unprecedented exposure.
As a result, Ink is now ranked #16 on IMDb’s ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1071804/ ) movie meter and is currently one of the top 20 most popular movies in the world.
This all started as a result of the completely underground buzz that you’ve each helped us create. We’ve had no distributor, no real advertising and yet the word of mouth that you’ve generated has made the film blow up as soon as it became available worldwide. So many of you came to see the movie multiple times, bringing friends and family and many of you have bought the DVD and Blu-ray from us. All of this built up and built up and suddenly it exploded.
We don’t know exactly where this will all lead, but the exposure is unquestionably a positive thing."
Here's the truth - one so-called illegal viewing online does not lead to a lost sale in the market. On the contrary, if a production is good and valued the exposure will lead to more sales. A good movie will do better through word of mouth and internet exposure. I watched Avatar online and can't wait to see it again on IMAX in 3D. They absolutely do not want people to understand this, insisting instead to guarantee corporate profits through archaic, heavy handed thuggery.
You see, the opposite is true. A shit movie online will get rightfully torn to shreds in the court of public opinion. That's what they fear the most.
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