Thread: Busted Movie Site Pleads For Cash To Fight Feds

At the end of June this year, nine sites connected to movie streaming were targeted by the U.S. Government. The operator of one of those sites, NinjaVideo, has now issued a plea for funds to fight back against what is undoubtedly a formidable force. “We are looking at six to seven digits and it’s going to be pure hell,” she explains. “We have nothing. Nothing at all. They took… everything.”

By now, you know the background. Last month “Operation In Our Sites” targeted nine domains connected to the offering of first-run movies without consent from the copyright holders.

The operators of two other domains were also targeted – NinjaVideo.net and NinjaThis.net. According to authorities the site had been subjected to a months-long operation. This is something TorrentFreak can confirm. Following a tipoff from a very reliable source, we informed NinjaVideo months ago that they were being watched and their hardware was being interfered with. It’s almost certain that they were powerless to do anything about it.

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Just like the article says, the situation is off the scale. When I read the article posted here I actually thought nothing that bad was going to happen.

this is nuts! just another great reason why private trackers should remain private, shames theres not that many TRULY private trackers anymore, with all the open applications etc...

Originally Posted by arnoldma

this is nuts! just another great reason why private trackers should remain private, shames theres not that many TRULY private trackers anymore, with all the open applications etc...

The only thing saving private trackers from similar treatment is that they are too low profile (measured by userbase) for most law enforcement agencies to care about relative to the low hanging fruit of public streaming and torrent sites. Considering that any sufficiently motivated 16 year old kid could get access to pretty much every conceivable private tracker, do you really think that law enforcement agencies, with their budget and manpower, would be incapable of accessing virtually any private tracker if that were an organizational priority?

Originally Posted by Rellik

The only thing saving private trackers from similar treatment is that they are too low profile

Also some of the highest profile ones are out of reach of US or, really, any effective, law enforcement. Demonoid, for example. TPB is unusual in that it's trying to run more-or-less openly from a country with effective law enforcement (although its servers aren't in Sweden), but they've obviously had mixed results.

I thought NinjaVideo were asked to take down the site? I'm sure they have a backup/current site saved somewhere. And is this what the Feds priorities? There are rapists, murderers, pedos etc roaming around and they focus on movie streaming websites?

so does this mean they are going to try to bring down other sites, and maybe start trying to close down private sites. and i agree with whatwhat, i don't understand why this is at the top of their list when there are worse things going on right now that are actually hurting people.

Originally Posted by BlackMamba

so does this mean they are going to try to bring down other sites, and maybe start trying to close down private sites. and i agree with whatwhat, i don't understand why this is at the top of their list when there are worse things going on right now that are actually hurting people.

Let's hope private sites aren't big enough to be targeted. Their focused on bring down the giant right now (TPB). Once that's out of the way it all depends on whether or not they think private sites are big enough to take down compared to how much money they would have to spend to take them down. This is at the top of the list because it involves money. Corporations don't care about anything other than money.

agreed...it's probably gonna be a long time before TPB goes under

Well if government wants they can target pretty much ever site on the web but they probably choosing to target sites with big user data base.
Its not that they don't know about tracker that we know.I mean how can this happen ?