MPAA Reports Notorious Pirate Sites to U.S. Government

[shamu726]

The MPAA has informed the U.S. Government about two dozen piracy-promoting websites it would like to be dealt with in the near future. The list includes major torrent sites The Pirate Bay and Kickass.to, file-hosting services such as Uploaded and Putlocker, but also Russia’s popular social network VKontakte. Interestingly, the movie industry group also prematurely reports that Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm has been extradited to Denmark and sentenced for hacking related offenses.

Responding to a request from the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR), yesterday the MPAA submitted a new list of “notorious markets.”

In its latest filing the MPAA targets a wide variety of websites which they claim are promoting illegal distribution of movies and TV-shows, with declining incomes and lost jobs in the movie industry as a result.

“Copyright theft is not a victimless crime. The criminals who profit from the most notorious markets throughout the world threaten the very heart of our industry and in doing so they threaten the livelihoods of the people who give it life,” the MPAA writes.

According to the movie industry group, in recent years the piracy landscape has become more fragmented and harder to deal with, as torrent sites, cyberlockers, streaming sites and linking sites continue to gain ground.

“Today the online market has further fragmented and content thieves are taking advantage of new online technologies, with streaming sites and cyberlockers representing a growing share of unlawful conduct.”

“Moreover, a secondary market has arisen in the form of ‘linking sites’, which are professional-looking sites that facilitate content theft by indexing stolen movie and television content hosted on other sites.

Despite these challenges the movie studios are also glad to report one of their recent successes, the takedown of isoHunt.com. Nevertheless, there are still many other sites that remain a problem for the group.

Below is the full list of ‘rogue’ sites and their suspected location as defined by the MPAA in its USTR filing.

BitTorrent / P2P sites:

- ExtraTorrent.com (Ukraine)
- Kickass.to (Canada)
- RuTracker.org (Russia)
- ThePirateBay.sx (Sweden)
- Torrentz.eu (Canada)
- Xunlei.com (China)
- Kuaibo.com (China)

Download/streaming:

- Extabit.com (Netherlands)
- Netload.in (Germany)
- Nowvideo.sx (Netherlands)
- Putlocker.com (United Kingdom)
- Rapidgator.net (Russia)
- bannedhost.net (Netherlands)
- VK.com (Russia)

Linking sites:

- Cuevana.tv (Argentina)
- Primewire.ag (Estonia)
- Filmesonlinegratis.net (Brazil)
- Free-tv-video-online.me (Czech Republic)
- Megafilmeshd.net (Brazil)
- Movie4k.to (Romania)
- Seriesyonkis.com (Spain)
- Solarmovie.eu (Latvia)
- Telona.org (Sweden)
- Yyets.com (China)

Usenet:

- Usenext.com (Germany)

The MPAA provides a short description for every site listed but doesn’t detail why these sites are considered “rogue” while others aren’t. Additionally, some of their other claims are not always accurate.

For example, the MPAA claims that Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm has been extradited to Denmark where he was supposedly sentenced following hacking related charges.

“In 2012, one of the site’s co-founders was found guilty on hacking charges in Sweden after his extradition from Cambodia. He was then extradited to Denmark and sentenced for similar charges in 2013,” MPAA writes.

However, Gottfrid is still in a Swedish prison and filed for an appeal at the Supreme Court this week. He hasn’t even left for Denmark, let alone been tried and sentenced.

Similarly, the MPAA suggests that Pirate Bay’s PirateBrowser is linking to websites that are actually hosted on the Tor network, which is not what it does.

“ThePirateBay.sx promoted its tenth year as an index website by releasing the PirateBrowser, a self-contained portable web browser with preset bookmarks to BitTorrent websites hosted on the TOR network,” MPAA notes.

In a few weeks the US Trade Representative will use the submissions of the MPAA and other interested parties to make up its final list of piracy havens. The U.S. Government will then alert the countries where these sites are operating from, hoping that the local authorities take action.

Source: TorrentFreak

[Ambrocious]

The MPAA is no friend of positive cultural collectivity. It's no mistake that they report to the government, the military industrial complex. This is war, it's being waged against freedoms of the internet and avenues of expression and cultural affiliations which can be easily spread globally.

Here is one major reason why the United States Government is being notified: A lot of TV shows are PACKED to the entertainment gills with propaganda which is "meant" to be targeting a mostly American audience for specific purposes. Other countries who realize this and do not want their country falling to these same mindsets which become formed by consuming these forms of propaganda laced shows over long periods of time try to negate the affect of these TV shows by creating anti-piracy laws. It's not an outrageous deal I would think but it is a big enough deal. National leaders who understand that this is actual a technocracy that is helping to cultivate a captivated audience here in the USA are trying to steer away from the specific content which could psychologically affect other nations and cause what's I call "similar exposure awareness complex" or SEAC which basically means that multiple people think in similar ways because they have been exposed to similar TV shows, movies, games and it creates an International mindset of likeness. SEAC is the artificial formation of a cultural exceptance via the exposure and dramatization of content like movies and music.

The orchestration of this form of mass propaganda over a period of 20+ years influences 2 generations and partially a third: both the youngest and the 20 year olds being affected the most while older adults are less influenced by newer forms of propaganda that do not pertain to their level of understanding with the rapid rising of newer technologies that often confuse the elderly who's minds have been exposed to technology at their later years.

Of course greed is a small part to play in the restrictions of international free information exchange but it does not drive the push of the "anti piracy" movement. What we are all seeing take place these days is more new than old. For the first time in human history and since the creation of the Internet, the whole world can be influenced by information of all sorts nearly instantaneously. Since it appears we are in times of war and deception, who knows the full reasons why they hate piracy but one thing for sure when it comes to online piracy, they hate it that people can engage in the free trading of stuff without the direct affiliation of Big Brother (out of control governments).

[Reefa]

Hmm i wonder what the u.s will do if they don`t comply :think:

[irefay]

Hmm, anyone interested in compiling a better list :)

[locoJoe]

Thanx to the MPAA I know have a few more bookmarks :D

[Sonar]

Thanx to the MPAA I know have a few more bookmarks :D

I was thinking the same, There's a few there that I don't have bookmarked lol.

Edited October 28, 2013 by Sonar