Pirate DVD factory raided in The Netherlands - bit-tech.net Forums

Tim S · 14th Sep 2007, 12:41

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/09..._netherlands/1

A manufacturing plant that was making 900 illegal copies of movies an hour was raided by Dutch police earlier this week.

[USRF]Obiwan · 14th Sep 2007, 13:30

"Maybe the recording industry should change its focus and go after those who actually make money from pirating music and movies instead of going after individuals like it currently does."

I totaly agree. But they probably are scared to dead for real criminals then your little sister with her mp3 collection..

samkiller42 · 14th Sep 2007, 13:40

Its a small step forward, but its also possibly 2 steps back, as another factory will start up in this ones place.

Sam

Mankz · 14th Sep 2007, 13:42

Why did they bother pirateing such crap movies. (Bar 4.0 of course)

Tulatin · 14th Sep 2007, 14:11

Because they're popular with the sheeple?

mmorgue · 14th Sep 2007, 14:15

Yep, this was a "massive" blow to piracey...

...until little "Martje" and "Geert" from Duivendrecht use their school's free internet connection to download unlimited music from the usenet! LOL!

When o when will the industry learn...

DeXtmL · 14th Sep 2007, 14:56

Piracy is everywhere across our world.
People alway prefer to cheap things.
It's most probably that the piracy would last a very long time.

Bluephoenix · 14th Sep 2007, 15:24

Piracy won't return to the high seas, it just moved to the internet and likes it better there.

proxess · 14th Sep 2007, 19:57

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Organized criminals who are almost certainly involved in other areas of serious criminal activity.

Where do they get this bullshit?! Ok I understand the big crime part about a piracy factory, thats just insane, but heck, why do they associate them to homicides and drug dealers and thieves?

dire_wolf · 14th Sep 2007, 21:48

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Originally Posted by proxess

Where do they get this bullshit?! Ok I understand the big crime part about a piracy factory, thats just insane, but heck, why do they associate them to homicides and drug dealers and thieves?

Tell me about it, if everyone's honest I bet 99% of us use torrent and p2p software and we're not all coke sniffing child molesting throat slittin mofos either

DXR_13KE · 14th Sep 2007, 23:24

i am with proxess and dire_wolf on this one..... but i do hate it when people make money of work from other people like these guys were doing.

Spaceraver · 14th Sep 2007, 23:47

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Originally Posted by dire_wolf

Tell me about it, if everyone's honest I bet 99% of us use torrent and p2p software and we're not all coke sniffing child molesting throat slittin mofos either

I agree with the four first statements..

It's the child molesting throat slittin mofos I can't stand.

specofdust · 15th Sep 2007, 00:00

Good stuff this raid. These sorts of ops should be busted and focused on more often.

David_Fitzy · 15th Sep 2007, 05:17

Did they say DVD press, as in proper silver DVD's??

...ooo fancy. Not like that pic doing the rounds (the one with a room full of towers each full of DVD burners)

but if one pirate can get hold of a press then another can too.

bilbothebaggins · 15th Sep 2007, 09:46

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Originally Posted by proxess

Where do they get this bullshit?! Ok I understand the big crime part about a piracy factory, thats just insane, but heck, why do they associate them to homicides and drug dealers and thieves?

Course the industry likes to mix up everything and get some bad press for file sharing this way too.
BUT - We really need to understand that these kind of professional activities ARE certainly often connected to professional criminals. Some people just don't care where their money comes from, and while you certainly MAY NOT compare the small "DVD dealer" to the small drug dealer, the big guys behind such an operation (you need some knowhow to get such a fab running after all) are more likely than not involved in some other criminal activities.

-btb-

Drexial · 17th Sep 2007, 15:55

"People alway prefer to cheap things."

if people preferred cheep things there would only be cheep things. its just that smart people know what the vale of things are. A purse is NEVER worth $10,000, sneakers are never worth $300, a suit is never worth $100,000.... just like us that build computers instead of paying the $14,000 (falcon had one this much) for a computer that could be built for under $4,000 (with even better liquid cooling). you try and explain how labor to put it together is worth $10,000.

kenco_uk · 17th Sep 2007, 16:08

Ah maaan, it says 'Out of Stock'.. how do I get my money back?

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Drexial Supermodder Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 297	"People alway prefer to cheap things." if people preferred cheep things there would only be cheep things. its just that smart people know what the vale of things are. A purse is NEVER worth $10,000, sneakers are never worth $300, a suit is never worth $100,000.... just like us that build computers instead of paying the $14,000 (falcon had one this much) for a computer that could be built for under $4,000 (with even better liquid cooling). you try and explain how labor to put it together is worth $10,000.

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