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FBI Raids Apartment of Alleged King’s Speech Uploader

Being part of the FBI has never seemed more urgent... lol, sheesh.

Great work guys! That's one guy who won't upload movies anymore! That'll keep the country safe!

Just use wbb and let it spread from there, for fuck's sake. Who the hell uses TPB anymore?

FBI's in the right on this one.

Article quote:
"(..)This investigation is excessive and a waste of tax dollars."

I couldn't agree more.

I don't know US law but is really the FBI the organisation to go after this? From mobsters and serial killers to torrent uploaders seems a bit off.

And being associated with a known pirate group I would have assumed he'd had the basic knowledge to hide his IP and maybe the brain to not say “SAG now sends out iTunes download codes for screens,” and “I’m a SAG member and thought I’d share these,”. Really silly.

No, they're not. The FBI has more pressing things to attend to such as terrorism and cracking down on the component of the international sex trafficking which happens in the US.

It is the responsibility of the copyright owners to enforce their rights, not the FBI. Especially given that they don't pay much in the way of taxes anyways and certainly don't pay the actual producers.

Actually i'm delighted to see them going after the uploaders for once rather than the downloaders the RIAA perfer to sue.

This is an argument from ignorance, and also an ignorant argument. Rights are not enforced, they are protected. It is the job of the government to protect those rights. The FBI, for once, is doing its legitimate job.

Uploaders over downloaders. Yep. It's totally wrong to go after downloaders, once something's been uploaded, that's it. It's over for that product. Copies will be made and punishing downloaders does nothing to help (fuck Peter Mandelson's DEA, btw).

However, as mentioned before, totally wrong for the FBI to work on this. This is a police thing, surely. Really a waste of time for the FBI and 200x more terrifying for the uploader than it needs to be.

It's interstate commerce once it hits the Internet, making it a federal problem. A legitimate one, this time.

If people would bitch a lot louder and try to do something about the shit they actually should be keeping their hands off of instead of actual important shit like this, there'd be a whole lot less to bitch about afterward, since funds and manpower would be more than readily available.

Good. The FBI is headed in the right direction when it comes to stopping pirates.

Yes, the FBI is the only agency with the authority and jurisdiction to deal with this. Since uploading a movie to the internet means the commission of the crime crossed state lines, plus it was a violation of federal law, no single city or state police force has jurisdiction over it. The FBI is in charge of investigating crimes that cross state lines and enforcing federal law, so movie pirates are their burden to bear.

Yeah, you might expect a file uploader as evil as this one (that's sarcasm for those of you with no sense of humor) would know better than to not hide his IP or reveal personal details online, but you have to remember, this guy is also an actor. Actors aren't really known for being the sharpest tools in the shed, if you know what I mean.

It makes you wonder how much of this is based on money involved. What is happening in large parts of Europe, is "little" pirates who shared a few songs (not uploaded, just shared) getting busted and having to pay enormous fines that are not connected to what they did.

For example, a few years ago this German company working for a British publisher sued some woman for having shared a kids game. She ignored the fine (which was £5000 or so) so it went to court, where she refused to go as well because she couldn't afford a lawyer and thought the whole situation was silly. They basically had just her IP and little else - they couldn't even prove how much she had shared of the game. It might have been a few MB and that's what the woman says it was. But she didn't have proof, but neither did they. But the judge still fined her some ridiculous amount and it makes you shake your head. These are petty scare tactics which only prove to lower the esteem consumers have for the industry, leading to even MORE piracy.

You know what the biggest weapon in the fight against piracy is? RESPECT. Make your customers respect you and like you, and they won't rob you. Shitting in their soup and pissing in their wine, which most publishers are doing these days, is not the right way to do things.

Shouldn't this make it Interpol's territory, then?