Online TV Piracy

Hello my fellow bloggers and bloggettes,

As some of you may have heard or have seen, the US government went ape sh*t today on some of the biggest streaming and P2P download sites.  As of this moment 5 sites have been seized by ICE, Homeland Security Investigations of the USA, with the sites either being totally removed or their front pages are plastered with the the US homeland security seal with the whole paragraph on unlawful distribution of copyrighted materials.  The thing is most of these sites either stream or embed videos from other sites who have copyrighted the material, these sites are just passing it along.  Wouldn't it be better for the US to go after the copyrighters instead of the streamers? Better to chop the tree down at the base, trimming of the top won't stop the main contributors.  One of the craziest parts of this is that the biggest site they took down was rojadirecta.org and its associate site rojadirecta.com but they couldn't shut down the three other sites that company runs.  The crazy part is how do the US have authority to shut down 2 sites that are owned and run by a company in Spain who went to court there twice and won both times the right to have their site.  Here is the full list of sites at the moment that have been shut down because of the US government:

rojadirecta.org        rojadirecta.com       channelsurfing.net  
atdhe.net                firstrow.net              ilemi.com

It should be interesting to see if other streaming sites are shut down in the new few days and if any of the sites that were shut down end up starting up again whether it be with the same domain or a different one.

As a nerd who is constantly online searching for shows or anything, this caught me off guard and it makes you think just how much Big Brother is actually watching you. Its kind of scary when you think of it.


Thunder... THUNDER... THUNDER-NERDS, HOOOOOOOE!!!!!


UPDATE: Another site has been found to be shut down by the US government, strikegently.com is now gone.