US Government shut down streaming sites, they know whats important...

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Feds shut down ten streaming movie sites - Pirates "yarr" bad, says US | TechEye

Ten streaming movie websites have been shut down by the US Feds in part of the doomed ongoing effort to stamp out illegal distribution

The seized domain names were all registered with US services but servers were run internationally, some in Germany, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and Blighty. Three were running in the US, in Colorado, Florida and Illinois. The problem is, sites outside the US will probably just pop back up under different names.

The authorities have said that the targeted sites were "among the most popular" websites for spreading illegal copies of films just out in the cinema - the government picked up on Toy Story 3 and The A-Team as evidence for obtaining the warrant.

The Wall Street Journal reports that to justify the warrant, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency assistant secretary John Morton said that on the 15th of June alone, 37,000 people had streamed Carrie Bradshaw buggering about in the Middle East in Sex and the City 2 on just one of the shut down sites, TVShack.net. Poor bastards.

"Counterfeiting and piracy hurt American workers, pure and simple," said John Morton. If by American workers he includes Sarah Jessica Parker and the rest of the SatC 2 cast - we'll be back later, there are movies to be streamed.

The affected sites are: PlanetMoviez.com, Movies-Links.tv, Filespump.com, ZML.com, Now-Movies.com, ThePirateCity.org, PlanetMoviez.com, NinjaVideo.net, NinjaThis.net and TVshack.net.

Read more: Feds shut down ten streaming movie sites - Pirates "yarr" bad, says US | TechEye

So moving to torrents full time now until an alternative to ninjavideo appears.

If you know of any other high quality streaming sites please PM me so I can report them to the authorities.

Wasn't sure if this was entertainment focused or current events focused so I stuck it here.
 
There is a streaming website that collects all the information from thousands of other streaming sites, and acts as a search engine, you can search by category, filter for the best quality, or even the most popular. It is the Google of streaming.

PM me for a link.
 
I've never heard about any of the websites mentioned in the article, so nothing of value was lost, and they're already back up anyway, good job the feds! :lol:

Please let me know about that site Hectic. :)
 
Big-Red said:
Very true, with the right search you have everything.
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Actually, I know of a forum, a very very very big one, which has possibly each and everything possible that can be uploaded to rapidshare...if anyone wants the name PM me, pretty sure most people know about it though, but I'm yet to find much stuff that isn't on there which I need it..


and no it isn't forumw
 
zain said:
Actually, I know of a forum, a very very very big one, which has possibly each and everything possible that can be uploaded to rapidshare...if anyone wants the name PM me, pretty sure most people know about it though, but I'm yet to find much stuff that isn't on there which I need it..


and no it isn't forumw
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I wouldn't mind that PM in my inbox. Yours is full.
 
Rapidshare have royally screwed their premium users. I extended for 6 months back in April until this October. I downloaded over 5 gb yesterday and it's automatically bumped me up to "RapidBig" at a cost of 78 rapids per day. Which leaves me with 27 days left.

I also have 40000 free rapid points which I can't seem to do anything useful with.

Anybody remotely happy or see the benefits of the new system?
 
The new download cap doesn't bother me cause unfortunately my ISP, Rogers, only allows me 95 GB worth of bandwidth a month without fining me..

So there's noway I can shoot above 5 GB a day anyways.....I would if I probably could mind you..
 
I download in bursts so my total download for a given month would probably not exceed 30gb. Going over 5gb yesterday seems to permanently put me on the 20gb per day account which I can't seem to manually demote myself from.

I don't think I will be staying with them once my points run out.
 
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