Russia's No Haven for BitTorrent Sites?

[exfileme]

Russian police recently raided the Moscow office of BitTorrent tracker website Interfilm, the first ever in a country considered to be a safe haven for said tracking websites.

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[one-shot]

The MPAA at it again....This time in Russia. Now let's bring on the Russia jokes.

 

[starhoof]

Russia is just like any other country, with rules and regulations... Its not the best idea to just make jokes and stuff. and yes you can get screwed over in any part of the world.

 

[Master Exon]

In Soviet Russia, music downloads YOU.

 

[starhoof]

In soviet russia, Cops break your face for downloading music... oohh wait...

 

[canceltwc4fios]

let's make hammers illegal, too

hammers can be used to kill people

 

[Guest]

I wonder how much actually went into the couples 'pockets' There is a cost of running a website/tracker. You gotta pay for that bandwidth, and that's a cost of operation, not a pocket.

Then again, I'm not sure of all the details, so I really can't have an opinion of what's going on.

 

[thearm]

I'm all for downloading. But, if the owners are making a living off of it, that's going to far. You should use the money to maintain the hardware and that's it. In other words, don't quit your day job.

 

[antilycus]

yawn, you'll never be able to stop piraters and your sales will go down as we STEAL IT BECAUSE WE ARE BROKE... you can thank the companies that pay us dirt while the execs get a crap ton of cash.

 

[mavroxur]

In russia, music pirates you.

 

[svdb]

Russia is such a democracy anyway...
Cops there don't need a reason to crack down on you; and they probably couldn't care less about piracy. Chances are they do it themselves.
The question is, who did the MPAA and RAPO bribe to have the cops leave their crack dealing business for a day and go after InterFilm?

 

[Guest]

I totaly agree with svdb and Antilycus

 

[hellwig]

After the raid, Interfilm went down for a brief period of time, only to re-appear shortly thereafter as a fully functional tracker website hosted by LeaseWeb in The Netherlands.

So within minutes/hours, the website moved from Russia to the Netherlands? Sounds like they had a contingiency plan in place, guess they were expecting this raid.

How expensive are web server in the Bahamas or on indian reservations in Canada? Why don't trackers set up shop in the same places all those illegal gambling sites do?

 

[Titanius]

People are getting it all wrong; Russia isn't a safe haven for Torrent sites, Ukraine is...oops, did I say that out loud?

 

[grieve]

titanius mysteriously disappears....

 

[gorehound]

they should put trackers/website in a country where you won't need to worry about the MPAA or RIAA or any of their stooges.