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U.S. Releases More Evidence of Megaupload’s ‘Mass Infringing Use’
Its an update.
That's old news about megaupload.
The FBI seized that site like a year ago.
They are back however under a different name.
U.S. Releases More Evidence of Megaupload’s ‘Mass Infringing Use’
Its an update.
Did you know about the latest news on Pirate bay?
Pirate Bay Back in Sweden’s Calm Waters After .GY Suspension
The Pirate Bay’s domain troubles seem to be never ending. Just a day after the troubled torrent site found a new home in Guyana, the site’s new .GY domain has already been suspended. The local domain registry informs TorrentFreak that all domains that violate its policies will be suspended immediately. The Pirate Bay, meanwhile, has decided to return to the relatively calm waters of Sweden for the time being.
tpbToday The Pirate Bay returns to its Swedish based .SE domain, after a domain hopping exercise of little more than a week.
The trouble started last week when the notorious BitTorrent site lost its .SX domain after pressure from the anti-piracy outfit BREIN. In a response The Pirate Bay moved to Ascension Island’s .AC ccTLD, and later Peru’s .PE domain, but both these domains were suspended as well.
Yesterday The Pirate Bay switched over to Guyana’s .GY ccTLD, where the torrent site wasn’t welcome either. Within a day of thepiratebay.gy becoming operational the local registry has already taken it offline.
TorrentFreak reached out to the GY registry which didn’t name a specific reason for the suspension, other than the following.
“Once a site violates our policies, it will be suspended,” the registry noted in a statement. A brief inspection of the registry’s acceptable use policy reveals that linking to copyrighted material is sufficient to warrant a suspension.
After the .GY domain was lost a few hours ago The Pirate Bay moved back to its old home, thepiratebay.se. The site is expected to remain in Sweden’s relatively calm waters for the time being.
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The return to the .SE domain is noteworthy, as this domain is also at risk of being seized.
On behalf of several major movie, music and publishing companies, Swedish prosecutor Fredrik Ingblad filed a motion at a Stockholm court in April, requesting the seizure of thepiratebay.se, piratebay.se and the new thepiratebay.is domains.
“There is widespread copyright infringement linked to these sites and these domains are used to assist in connection with crime,” Ingblad wrote in the complaint.
Ironically, this looming seizure was the main reason why TPB traded in its .SE domain for a Greenland-based domain in April, before switching to a .IS and a .SX domain when other problems became apparent.
The good news for The Pirate Bay, however, is that the .SE domain registry previously stated that it will not suspend the domain name unless there is a court order. This means that Sweden should be a safe haven for now.
Gof bless Canada
That's where that dotcom dude went with his new site.
Sweden is the .
Long story short, piracy will never end.
Sweden really has no reason to ban piracy imho, when even the country was originally founded by pirates (just like most north european countries).
kick ass torrents now has a DVD copy of 20 Feet From S om
And if you don't mind sub les they have this also.
there is also The Crash Reel
This film is kinda dark
Haven't found theses two so I will use Netfix
Release a movie before those with a financial stake are making a profit...
I say execute the bas .
He released the movie a month before it came out.
You're too much of a yes man Cobra.
I commend this dude for doing what he did. the Government and their self serving bull .
If all movies were available for free download before they hit the theaters, then there would be no profit motive to make movies.
And how is that a bad thing?
Society needs various forms of culture. Like it or not, movies are a form of culture.
Do you use a free proxy site? Or something else?
I really haven't used proxy lately, but hidemyass is free.
Crazy Calculations Behind $652,000 File-Sharing Damages
Earlier this week a torrent site user was hit with a damages claim of $652,000 for uploading one movie to the Internet. With the huge amount undoubtedly still ringing in the 28-year-old’s ears, questions are now being raised about how this figure was arrived at. It’s an amazing process that shows that sometimes copyright holders may as well just think of a number, double it, multiply it by the day of the week and then add it all to their dog’s age.
This week was one to forget for an individual dubbed by copyright holders as Sweden’s “worst ever” Internet pirate. The man was a former moderator and uploader at the now-defunct Swebits site and had been tracked down and prosecuted for his sins.
After concluding in the Västmanlands District Court last month, a few days ago the Court handed down its decision.
The 28-year-old was ordered to pay $652,000 in damages for the unauthorized distribution of just one of the movies in the case. For the other 517 the man was said to have shared he was handed a suspended jail sentence and ordered to complete 160 hours of community service.
There can be no doubt that $652,000 is a shocking amount of money, so just how was that figure arrived at? ComputerSweden news editor Marcus Jerrang asked the same question and has come up with a surprising sequence of events.
Jerrang discovered the amount was based on the expert opinion of a consultant called Bertil Sandgren who specializes in licensing matters.
“The written statement Sandgren has given the court is a fantastic display of assumptions and causal relations that aren’t backed by evidence,” Jerrang explains.
How many pirates?
Sandgren began by listing the number of people who attended Beck movies in the 2000s. The movie in this case, Buried Alive, had the lowest number of visitors at just over 100,000. This, compared to the 320,000 who watched the 2001 movie “The Price of Revenge.” Sandgren decided that 30,000 more people would have watched Buried Alive if it were not for illegal file-sharing.
The consultant then took a look at how movies were being presented to the public in 2010 and noted a move to digital presentations, with many individual theaters closing down but more multiplexes being built.
“From experience, a shift of this magnitude should imply a positive visitor development over the next 2-3 years after 2010 by about 20-25 percent,” Sandgren said.
“The primary reason behind the loss of the increase is most likely illegal downloading,” Sandgren explained, without backing the statement up.
Licensing and damages
Moving on, Sandgren looked at how much it would cost to purchase a hypothetical license fee to distribute the movie for free.
Noting that one million Swedes downloaded movies in 2010, he estimated that 25% of those would have bought movies if file-sharing didn’t exist. From this Sandgren concluded that more than one million would choose to download movies for free if they could do so legally.
This would result in a 100% loss of revenue for Buried Alive in the video market, so Sandgren decided that any license would need to be based on that total loss. Since Buried Alive pulled in around $865,000 overall, Sandgren put the license price at $835,000.
Arriving at damages, Sandgren looked at how many people had allegedly downloaded another Beck film in 2007 (said to be 45% of the total viewers) and noted that of those around 25% would have paid for it if file-sharing did not exist. After juggling a few stats an amount of $175,000 was arrived at.
Other loss of revenue, TV fees and damage to goodwill
Going on to calculate additional losses, Sandgren noted that “generally speaking, a film of this nature ought to reach an audience that, carefully calculated, is 30 percent larger. That is approximately 130,000 tickets with an improved revenue of an additional [$152,000].”
Moving on to pay and free TV, an amount of just over $106,000 was added but there are still more issues to be factored in. Sandgren calculated that the free availability of the movie on file-sharing sites would mean more effort would have to be put into selling it – $76,000 more to be precise.
Furthermore, the movie’s reputation would also be damaged due to the relative low quality of video rips being made available online. That, plus another $7,500 in punitive damages, added another $53,000 to the total.
Jerrang says that the District Court believed almost everything that Sandgren presented, since he was deemed to be credible after presenting evidence in the Swedish case against The Pirate Bay.
In the end, however, the court opted to compensate for just 50% of the market, ultimately arriving at the headline $652,000. Incredibly, no complaint was filed by the file-sharers’ lawyer meaning that this “think of a number” game will almost certainly be repeated again in future.
I've been waiting for a english version of it for a while and just checked, now there's a legit bluray copy out.
link? thanks in advance
not like I care much about the dialogue in the film and I can't even keep up with the actors' speeches (since I'm a ) but I just wanna hear our goddess's voice which's sexy as , instead of the voice of a spanish
Did you really watched that in spanish scrah?link? thanks in advance
not like I care much about the dialogue in the film and I can't even keep up with the actors' speeches (since I'm a ) but I just wanna hear our goddess's voice which's sexy as , instead of the voice of a spanish
just go to piratebay and look it up, tons of links pop up.link? thanks in advance
not like I care much about the dialogue in the film and I can't even keep up with the actors' speeches (since I'm a ) but I just wanna hear our goddess's voice which's sexy as , instead of the voice of a spanish
of course, scrah, have watched it like a million times (just watched the goddess parts though) and every time I saw the love scenes of our goddess and that head Levitt I was pissed as . I felt the impulse to throw a few heavy fists into the computer screen each and every time (could always forbear to do so though, that's why i still have a computerDid you really watched that in spanish scrah?
Levitt got one of the world's most punchable faces and I really doubt our goddess enjoyed making film with him tbh. Downey and Chris Evans are the finest movie partners for our goddess so far, can't wait to see a film starring Goddess and Tom Cruise (both New Yorkers) tbh
thanks, bro, will do it later.
Tom Cruise really? Dude's a creep with his scientology beliefs and .of course, scrah, have watched it like a million times (just watched the goddess parts though) and every time I saw the love scenes of our goddess and that head Levitt I was pissed as . I felt the impulse to throw a few heavy fists into the computer screen each and every time (could always forbear to do so though, that's why i still have a computer
Levitt got one of the world's most punchable faces and I really doubt our goddess enjoyed making film with him tbh. Downey and Chris Evans are the finest movie partners for our goddess so far, can't wait to see a film starring Goddess and Tom Cruise (both New Yorkers) tbh
Maybe Cruise should make less of such films like oblivion and s tbh. the films are good but cruise ain't looking much like a fighta, guy needs to make more films belonging in the genre of romance/drama. He's still one of the most handsome guys in hollywood despite being a bit old, and one of the few guys who wouldn't make me want to punch their faces if they make films together with our goddess, not to say their sizes match so perfectly (my height is 5'7 too, tbh
Then you need to check ouy Vanilla.Maybe Cruise should make less of such films like oblivion and s tbh. the films are good but cruise ain't looking much like a fighta, guy needs to make more films belonging in the genre of romance/drama. He's still one of the most handsome guys in hollywood despite being a bit old, and one of the few guys who wouldn't make me want to punch their faces if they make films together with our goddess, not to say their sizes match so perfectly (my height is 5'7 too, tbh
Its based on some spanish movie they made into a Hollywood one. It has some romance, twisted fate and all that stuff you're looking for.
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