Bulgaria CyberCrime Unit Arrests Man For Running Dozens of Pirate Sites

[Matrix]

The Cybercrime Specialized Unit at the State Security Service of Bulgaria says it has arrested an individual said to be responsible for running dozens of pirate streaming sites that were supported by Google advertising. A 40-year-old man, who is said to be the owner/operator of all of the platforms, was detained under the direction of the Sofia District Prosecutor's Office.

Like many countries in Europe, Bulgaria is home to large numbers of pirate sites operating in multiple niches, from torrent and streaming platforms, to dedicated IPTV services.

In recent times authorities there have indicated that they are taking a tougher line to combat infringement in the country and yesterday announced results on that front.

According to an announcement from the Ministry of the Interior, a “special operation” was carried out this week to take down dozens of streaming platforms said to be involved in the unlicensed distribution of copyright works.

Carried out under the direction of the Sofia District Prosecutor’s office, the Cybercrime Specialized Unit at the State Security Service detained a 40-year-old man said to be the owner/operator of dozens of pirate sites, which appear to have focused on the streaming sector.

The authorities claimed that the man ran more than 40 websites which distributed movies online without obtaining permission from copyright holders. He allegedly got one site off the ground and then used the content from that to fuel the others, which were then supported financially by adverts provided by Google.

“He originally published the films on one of the sites he controlled. After reaching a certain number of visitors and the traffic generated – for which he was paid for by Google respectively – he downloaded the works and shared them again, but on some other domains,” the statement from the Ministry reads.

“The procedure was repeated 4-5 times until the resource was exhausted from the sites he controlled. Thus, for the same copyright sites, the capitalist received multiple payments from Google.”

According to the statement, most of the sites were “hosted” on the Internet by one of the largest cloud service providers in the United States. This, the authorities claimed, led the man to believe he was anonymous. However, international investigations carried out by Bulgaria’s General Directorate for Combatting Organized Crime (GDBOP) uncovered his identity.

The full list of sites attributed to the man by the authorities reads as follows:

x-movies-8.com, new123movies.com, phim-3s.com, phim-14.com, xxxmovies8.com, ww1.serialitebg.com, xmovies8- tv.com, onlinemovies2017.com, xmovies-8.com, onlinemovies2016.com, newcinema2016.info, movies-16.com, onlinemovies-gold.com , megashare-movies.com, newmovies-2016.com, onlinemovies-is.com, big-top-40.com, movie-8k.com, tv-1000.net, online-movies-pro.info, moviesonline-pro.com, filmi-bg-audio.com, terminator-genesys-online.info, starwars7download.info, resident-evil-7-online.info, mision-impossible-5-online.info, james-bond-24-online.info, onlain-filmi-bg.com, filmi-fen.com, filmi-2015.com, kinofilme-2014.com, movies-2017.com, hulu-movies.com, onlain-filmi.info, movies-2015.com, movies-16.com, movie-32.com, new123movies.stream

 

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[steven36]

Governments in the EU  can't be trusted anymore , Bulgaria  wanted to crack down on piracy for years now like they did in the 90s , only thing that postponed it was they threw out the ACTA pact because of protests  in 2012

https://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/bulgaria-copyright.hpp

 

Then they voted it back in  with another name called article 13 , some people protested , even Google paid millions to try to stop it from being passed  and no one could save them from ACTA2.

 

Meanwhile  they didn't put a dent in streaming  this guy just cloned other sites names they still 1000s of these streaming portals online . One country crack down on people running sites people in that country will get media from somewhere else  that's why it called the world wide web .Out of all those sites that guy ran none of them were well known sites  this is just another example of how Google plays both sides of copyright. If advertising and premium filehost didn't pay these webmasters good money they would  be no pirate streaming  and direct download blogs it's not filesharing it's a business is all .Part of the reason i quit uploading why risk my butt to give you free stuff when they can give you stuff for free and get rich? Back on Appznet people who ran blogs for profit  would  wait on you to post something so they could upload it and get paid  that happens a lot on sites that have software piracy  . On video sites they just use bots and things on public torrent sites and leech and remote upload it most all of it's done in the cloud  . I could get paid to upload movies but who wants to end up like the fool in the OP?