nsane.forums Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 An Internet forum which provided links to movies and TV shows hosted on sites such as Rapidshare has been raided by police. Following an anti-piracy group investigation, three alleged operators of the 30,000 member site were arrested, two of which were teenagers. Searches were carried out on members in three other locations.With 30,000 members Filmowisko was a prominent file-sharing forum. The site didn’t host any illicit material, but like many of its type, linked to movies, TV shows, music and other warez stored on hosting sites such as Rapidshare.“Forum administrators are not responsible for content written by users. The files placed here by users are only for promotional purposes. After 24 hours you must delete all files downloaded from this forum,” said the disclaimer on the front page of the site before it disappeared.The police and the Foundation for the Protection of Audiovisual Creativity (FOTA) anti-piracy group clearly didn’t think the disclaimer counted for much, and on February 12th conducted raids against the site’s operators.During the raid last Friday, police say they arrested three individuals on suspicion of running the site – a 21 year-old computer science student and two teenagers aged 16 and 17 – and also conducted searches on site members in three other locations.Equipment was seized including 6 computers and 150 DVDs and CDs which allegedly contained copyright infringing content.After lengthy questioning the 21 and 17 year-olds were released and now face copyright infringement charges which carry a maximum 5 year prison sentence. The 16 year-old, who was reported yesterday as still being detained, will be dealt with by the family courts.The police, who are still to officially confirm the name of the site, say that “streaming movies” were also available via the forum and that those arrested benefited financially from operating the site as they collected revenue from advertising.They add that the collected evidence is being examined by experts in order to assess the level of damages suffered by the creators of the films and music whose work was linked to by the site.Anti-piracy group FOTA, which awards the police with “Golden Plate” accolades for carrying out piracy crackdowns on their behalf, will undoubtedly be pleased with this result. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 hey news bot. did you forget something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*dcs18 Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 hey news bot. did you forget something?The cops must've arrested him, too . . . . . . . . . . . while he was posting. :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toshiro Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 What are you guys talking about? :sneaky: thnx dkt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted February 16, 2010 Administrator Share Posted February 16, 2010 What are you guys talking about? :sneaky: thnx dktIn small letters? :tooth:Just joking, always welcome. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toshiro Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 What are you guys talking about? :sneaky: thnx dktIn small letters? :tooth:Just joking, always welcome. :)Yea, to let them know that the bot didn't f-k it up :wub: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted February 16, 2010 Administrator Share Posted February 16, 2010 You have no idea on how many times Cleancut has made my thread look really odd or with no text when it gets posted. :oGood that it doesn't happen now. -_- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HX1 Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 Well I will make one statement here.. if this is in the US.. The arrest and charges are invalid as the a Copyright Infringement.. reason being is that Federal Law specifically defines what income and profit means.. and residual income from running a site.. is not it.. They must profit specifically from the Copyright material... So this may not stand up in court because the law is not being interpreted correctly.. the federal statutes are quite clear.. Now if they turn around and place the charges because of the distribution.. and so on then yeah.. but definitely not because of the reasons stated.. If this is allowed we all might as well make our own law book..On the last point I hope they rot in JAIL for posting RapidShare links.. I wish it would go under.. I hate RapidShare.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shought Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 They add that the collected evidence is being examined by experts in order to assess the level of damages suffered by the creators of the films and music whose work was linked to by the site.So now there's even experts in calculating how much damage has been done to the movie industry? Lol, anti-piracy is really providing us with a lot of job opportunities... We should all feel blessed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 What are you guys talking about? :sneaky: thnx dktthere was no news to read thats what i meant as in forgeting something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silencer Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 That was happened a couple days in Poland. Filmowisko.net was a polish site. Typical case: In Poland cops gets rewards from these polish "RIAA and MPAA" called "Golden Badge". What is this? High vaule gifts. So they are corrupted as hell. Sad, but true. Not so long ago they shut down polish "rapidshare" - odsiebie.com, and year after year they raid on students houses, stealing their computers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JessicaLeigh Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 They add that the collected evidence is being examined by experts in order to assess the level of damages suffered by the creators of the films and music whose work was linked to by the site.So now there's even experts in calculating how much damage has been done to the movie industry? Lol, anti-piracy is really providing us with a lot of job opportunities... We should all feel blessed.LOLz! Hilarious that the economy is boosted by piracy when not even our president can create new jobs with trillions of dollars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarre™ Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 @JessicaLeigh:They want to create weapons of mass destruction instead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peace_Angel Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 The polish police and RIAA should be raided as well and see on how many of those tards run GENUINE MS WINDOWS and other LICENSED software!Some time ago, I read that some anti-piracy company used cracked software to make their logo or something! An eye for an eye!Peace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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