Holy Sith! Site permanently shut down after pirating the latest 'Star Wars' flick
As Yoda would say, "Bad thing, piracy is. Most upsettting, what you did is" Unfortunately, the force is not with this site... Some people are on the fence about piracy and the inflating costs of such media like movies or music. I'm not promoting it one way or another, but in my opinion, when it comes down to it, stealing is stealing. And who would want a copy of "Star Wars" with a frame time tracker across the top anyway?
U.S. shuts down network that leaked 'Star Wars' Wed May 25, 2005 5:15 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. law enforcers said on Wednesday that they have shut down a computer network that distributed illegal copies of "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" before it appeared in movie theaters.
Federal agents executed 10 search warrants and seized the main server computer in a network that allowed people to download nearly 18,000 movies and software programs, including many current releases, the FBI and Homeland Security Department said.
The Elite Torrents network, found online at www.elitetorrents.org, relied on a technology called BitTorrent that allows users to quickly download digital movies and other large files by copying them from many computers at once.
Visitors to the Web site on Wednesday saw a notice that read, "This site has been permanently shut down by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement."
...The latest Star Wars movie was available on the network more than six hours before it was first shown in theaters, and within 24 hours it was copied more than 10,000 times.
Read more here: http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2005-05-25T211538Z_01_N25424538_RTRIDST_0_NET-CRIME-STARWARS-DC.XML
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