Feds Take Down Ninjavideo
“I see time cyclical, fuck your 3D / NinjaVideo, fuck your TV”
Akira The Don, 2010, from Nah Nah Nah.
From The LA Times:
June 30, 2010 | 2:42 pm
Adding some swashbuckling to its tough talk on fighting piracy, the federal government Wednesday seized several websites that were offering downloads of pirated movies such as “Toy Story 3″ and “Iron Man 2″ within hours of their release in theaters.
Federal authorities announced that they had seized domain names from nine websites engaged in the “criminal theft of American movies and television.” The websites include TVShack.net, PlanetMoviez.com and ThePirateCity.org and Ninjavideo.net. The sites combined drew 6.7 million visitors a month, authorities said.
Officials also seized assets from 15 bank, investment and advertising accounts and executed residential search warrants in North Carolina, New York, New Jersey and Washington, according to a statement from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which coordinated its investigation with the Southern District of New York, the Department of Homeland Security and various other agencies.
The crackdown, which involved 100 agents working in 11 states and the Netherlands, is part of a renewed campaign dubbed “Operation in Our Sites” by the feds to curb Internet counterfeiting and piracy. The announcement comes a week after the Obama administration unveiled a detailed plan on how to tackle global piracy, including targeting illegal websites.
ICE Assistant Secretary John Morton, speaking at a Walt Disney Studios soundstage where he was joined by movie studio executives and union representatives, trumpeted the bust as the beginning of a “long-term effort to turn the tables on these thieves.” The targeted websites, he added, are “run by people who have no respect for creativity and innovation.”
Preet Bharara, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a statement that the actions were necessary to protect the jobs and livelihoods of “ordinary working people” and warned others involved in similar websites. The studios claim that they lose hundreds of millions of dollars annually to pirated content.
“If your business model is piracy, your story will not have a happy ending,” Bharara said.
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i am glad to have been alive while the internet was a thing of unlimited ideas and sharing. they (NWO folk) hate what the internet has become. im not as worried about cracking down on piracy as much as the oppression seen in places like China and Australia, we have had some bills with similar language to police the internet here in the states. the web is dying via the strangle hold of bureaucracy. it’s time to start building a new underground internet, i’ll take it back to phone lines and BBS if we damn well have to!
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medicating reply on July 2nd, 2010 8:40 am:
get a usenet account.
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July 1st, 2010 at 4:32 pm
‘…everybody apart from me uses the internet and seems to get on quite well with it. For my part, i don’t want to be connected to that all-pervasive cyber-culture any more than i wish to be connected to the physical world tat is all around me, more than i can help it [laughs]. I’m largely a solitary creature…’
‘…everybody is becoming [a superhero]. In the past I’ve tried to say, ‘Look, we are all crappy superheroes,’ because personal computers and mobile phone devices are things that only Bat Man and Mr Fantastic would have owned back in the sixties. We’ve all got this immense power and we’re still sat at home watching pornography and buying scratch cards. We’re rubbish, even though we are as gods…’
{interviewed in ‘The Stool Pigeon’ Summer 2010, latest ish…}
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July 2nd, 2010 at 9:51 am
“RUN BY PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO RESPECT FOR CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION”!!!
I WONDER IF ANY OF THOSE GOVERMENT OFFICIALS EVER LOOKED AT THE FAMILY THAT NINJA VIDEO HAS CREATED!!!
the creativity lies in the connection between people, and NOT the stupid, un-original movies they are watching..
WHO WANTS TO PAY 15$ TO SEE A MOVIE 1 TIME WITH A BUNCH OF LOUD AND STINKY PEOPLE WHEN THEY CAN WATCH IT FOR FREE AND AS MUCH AS THEY WANT IN THE COMFORT OF THERE OWN HOMES…
HAA, it just dawned on me.. HOW CAN THE GOVERMENT COMMENT ON WHATS “CREATIVE”!! like they would know whats creative!!!
any artist who would not give away his/her art for free for the benefit of mankind is not an artist. “IN MY OPINION”
i make music and have never ever asked for anything in return except that the listener opens their mind to it..
N.W.A SAID IT BEST -”FUCK THE POLICE”
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D reply on July 10th, 2010 10:55 pm:
Man, your reality is all twisted up.
EDIT: I was about to go on a long rant explaining how foolish you sound, but honestly you aren’t worth the time and effort. Fools will be fools.
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July 4th, 2010 at 5:05 am
This is a fucking joke.
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July 5th, 2010 at 1:47 am
Yeah, does this government even know what “piracy” means?
IT’S KINDA SAD THAT THESE PEOPLE DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE CRIME (THOUGH MINOR) ACTUALLY IS.
Fuck the MPAA. Fuck the RIAA.
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July 5th, 2010 at 3:19 am
How much did it cost to hire 100 Federal Bureau of Idiots to crack down on awesome websites like NinjaVideo ? The government is concerned about the loss of revenue to these movie companies? That’s a joke…. The only reason the government is interested in cracking down on these websites is because they are losing tax revenue coming to them from movie sales and production companies. They make them self sound like they care about the loss of revenue to places like Walt Disney. They have the audacity to call these sharing websites “thieves”. These websites are not charging. They are being generous unlike the stinking bureaucracy. If anyone is a thief, lier or cheat. Look no further than politicians or certain leaders that run the land. I remember a certain dick head of a president stating that a certain country had weapons of mass destruction. They wasted countless men hours and tons of money only to find a cowering president hiding underground. Did you find any weapons? You want the Americans to believe that your cause is Just. But you have other cunning intentions. OIL. Bottom line, not everyone is interested in spending top dollar to watch a movie once. I have a large amount of gratitude for websites like NinjaVideo. It’s been a great expereince and thank you for countless hours of viewing..
To those dickheads that want to crackdown on these websites. Good Luck! They shut Napster down only to resurrect another online software. As long as there is internet you PoPo’s are fighting a losing battle.
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Three_years reply on July 11th, 2010 9:38 am:
Yes, anti-piracy legislation IS comparable to launching an invasion on foreign soil, you are SOOOO right.
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July 7th, 2010 at 3:38 am
*I IN NO WAY REFLECT THE OPINIONS OR THOUGHTS OF THE ADMINS AT NINJA VIDEO*
I am a mod at Ninja Video and run the official blog and twitter. For info and how to help go to http://www.saveninjavideo.net or follow SaveNinjaVideo on twitter. Big updates that will surprise you in the next 24 hours so stay tuned.
—Honesty, Love and Loyalty—
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July 13th, 2010 at 1:41 pm