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Stupid Australian pirates busted by police

Posted on 24.01.2008 at 20:40 in Tech News by Martin

Police claim they have smashed a $12 million-a-year pirate DVD ring in three raids on houses in Melbourne’s west. The raids busted Australia’s largest pirate DVD syndicate, with 170 DVD burners and more than 400,000 pirated discs allegedly seized, said operations director Neil Gane from the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT). Victorian and federal police and AFACT investigators first searched a home in Sunshine West following reports from the public of suspicious activity, Mr Gane said. More than 250,000 discs and 100 burners were recovered, he said.

A 49-year-old man is assisting police with inquiries. Two houses at St Albans were later searched, where 70 more burners and more than 150,000 discs were allegedly found. The same addresses were raided in November last year, Mr Gane said. The two alleged burner labs, running 170 burners 10 hours per day, seven days per week, could produce more than four million discs a year with a street value of more than $12 million, he said. The haul allegedly included copies of latest release films including American Gangster, I am Legend, and Alvin and the Chipmunks, which are showing in cinemas and have not yet been released on legal DVDs. These idiots misusing the scene for burning and selling the releases make me always sick, they deserve what they asked for.

Source: RLSLOG readers, Adelaide Now

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  1. GMC
    January 24th, 2008 | 23:37

    With what an internet connection costs down here in Oz its almost cheaper to buy a $3 bootleg than to download a movie.

  2. ctg
    January 24th, 2008 | 23:42

    the image u have posted is a fake and it’s not related with the news
    file date and time : 2006:04:07 10:41:26

  3. incog
    January 24th, 2008 | 23:46

    hey u all have heard of maVen??did u all love maVens releases???

    According to the police, Geremi Adam had been selling copies of movies on the internet using the alias ‘maVen’ (asking between $300 and $1,000 each), go figure idiots;) we get them just after chinese/new york silver makers ;)

    http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14235

  4. Lasher
    January 24th, 2008 | 23:47

    if people wanna download and sell, fair play to em, like any illegal activity, don’t cross the line, and you’ll be fine, the second you get greedy and reckless, you’re f**ked.

    I don’t begrudge people who download for profit, hell sometimes it’s easier to just buy a disk then fuss about getting it yourself, perhaps you dunno how, perhaps u don’t have a PC.

    the way I see it, as long as noone gets hurt, and you’re not funding terrorism or pushing heroin, i could care less.

    but to get caught, oh well… I mean you guys can get on your high horses and shut them down for doing it if you want, but as I say, as long as they don’t cross the line, there no different to you or me.

  5. meee
    January 24th, 2008 | 23:49

    wow! i want at least two of those PCs! :)

  6. oldtimer
    January 24th, 2008 | 23:50

    @69
    Prendergast_Fool…
    really good point. Don’t expect this lot to get it though ;)

    @89 jamaican lover,
    also good point -better than smuggling drugs too. In fact, I might try this myself

  7. incog
    January 24th, 2008 | 23:51

    sorry that was a silly comment about chinese/new york silver makers..as i said before hope this place doesnt end up like vcdquality

  8. sober
    January 24th, 2008 | 23:51

    Did anybody stop to think that some people just don’t download to keep from spending the money, but instead do it in contempt for industry?

    Well, I don’t burn for friends anymore, but I still d/l since the industry had the nerve of asking me for my opinion. So as far as I care, the industry gets what they deserve, empty pockets.

  9. psycho_terror
    January 24th, 2008 | 23:57

    @ Martin

    if there is a line between stealing for your own entertainment, and stealing for profit then it is a pretty thin one.

    if this kind of thing “makes you sick” you must feel pretty bad about yourself.

  10. venturislife
    January 25th, 2008 | 00:01

    ALL OF YOU IS A BUNCH OF LOSERS & HYPOCRITES !!!!

    WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU’RE BETTER THAN THOSE GUYS?

    They’re just as bad as all of you people, the difference is they’re smarter.

    You can throw stones at a thieves if you never steal. But the reason all of you here (including me) is we are all thieves.

    Put aside all the reasoning, such as we can’t afford buying originals (well for argument sake you could rent for $2, this you cant afford??? it’s not that we can’t afford, but we all like free stuff don’t we?), we are actually doing more damages to the movie industry than those guys.

    Let me fix your loose screw in your brains.

    1. Damage to the movie industry
    How many dvds do they sell a year? How many movies do we ALL downloads every year? Im sure our figure will make them look like a grain of sand on the beach. Regardless whether they’re making money and we’re not, WE are still doing MORE damage to the industry.

    2. Making money or personal use?
    Let me ask you a simple question. There are 2 thieves, one thief who steals TVs and using it for personal use, and another thief steals TVs to be sold again to make some money. Is the first thief better than the second thief? I don’t know, but I know for sure that the second thief is smarter.

    SO ALL OF YOU WHO POSTED ALL THE NEGATIVE COMMENT YOU’RE ACTUALLY A WORSE PERSON THAN THEM. WHY? DO YOU SEE THEM COMPLAINING AT YOU GUYS BECAUSE YOU DOWNLOAD MOVIES? SO WHY ARE WE COMPLAINING ABOUT THEM?

    Im so dissapointed with all of you guys.

    I thought you were better person than this.

  11. hey
    January 25th, 2008 | 00:06

    Don’t they have internet downunder or are people still actually buying pirate dvd’s like they were living in a poor country?

    I can understand why they do it in africa and so, but Australia?

  12. john
    January 25th, 2008 | 01:01

    As a matter of fact ‘hey’ (@ post 111), Australian broadband is quite a poor service at the moment. Quite expensive for very little bandwith. Many people still purchase DVDs, as broadband/cable connections are not as accesible/affordable as other countries. This is something the newly installed Government has promised will be a thing of the past, it will happen, just depends on when. Australia is a long way behind the world when it comes to affordable high-speed Internet. This isn’t because, as you may think, we are sinking as low as a ‘third world country’ but more so a combination of specific businesses monoploizing the industry and inadequate Government assistance.

  13. sober
    January 25th, 2008 | 01:03

    @110

    Just because one person’s ethical opinion varies from your own, doesn’t necessarily mean they’re hypocrites. I know I have my reasons for d/l and that’s all that matters.

  14. RiNgDiNgDoNg
    January 25th, 2008 | 01:09

    FAIL.

  15. Jeroen
    January 25th, 2008 | 01:13

    Good thing they got busted, my motto “give for free what you take for free”

    p.s. the above ‘figure of speech’ sounds better in my native Language, Dutch. It should say “Wat je gratis krijgt moet je gratis geven”

  16. Misa
    January 25th, 2008 | 01:20

    that sucks.

  17. Rap
    January 25th, 2008 | 01:25

    I hope the cops kicked them really good in their faking smart ass…Selling them and making profits is a big crime..I download movies but I never sell them for profits…As micheal moore said sharing them with friends is not a big deal but selling something that you didn’t make/produce is a crime…I hope they fuc this kind badly so that he can’t walk again..

  18. Ingelvot
    January 25th, 2008 | 01:38

    “These idiots misusing the scene for burning and selling the releases make me always sick, they deserve what they asked for.”

    Now to me atleast piracy is just as much of a crime wheter you make profit of it or not so can’t really feel bad for the “scene”.

  19. MNB
    January 25th, 2008 | 01:41

    kinda feel sorry for them, they had nothing other to do then sell free stuff to gullible people,…they should visit their local college and get a degree…in computer engineering…at least then, they could be useful to society…same for gangs that import drugs…with all of their tactics, they could get a real job helping society…not assisting people’s habits…

  20. pearljamaussie
    January 25th, 2008 | 01:53

    Thanks for that MNB *A.K.A. Oprah!*

    I love how you threw in the “Stupid” bit in the title RLSLOG, nice touch…

  21. Ingelvot
    January 25th, 2008 | 01:54

    Okay so from a pure moral standpoint these people are a bit worse than the scene but really how do you justify what the scene does, which is basically taking what someone else put money and effort into with the purpose of selling and then distrubate for free (yes studios wanna make money this is how capitalism works and theres nothing bad in it).

    I personally download night and day but my concience can actually live with that and I really wish more could rather than making file sharing into an ideology trying to justify their actions left and right.

  22. nitrosdaez
    January 25th, 2008 | 01:54

    I read that vista sp1 was do out in the 3rd quarter of of ‘08 and sp3 a couple months after that, so if the timeline has been moved up, I will be really happy to get sp3 sooner than later, and vista and its lameass wannabe service pack can go to hell where it belongs.
    I am looking forward to win 7, hopefully it will be better then xp. I don’t want to be stuck with a outdated OS for the next 14 years.

  23. STOYVE
    January 25th, 2008 | 01:55

    lol all i can say is thank F*** i live on the other side of melb.

  24. nitrosdaez
    January 25th, 2008 | 01:55

    damn I clicked the wrong link lmao.

  25. rabbitpants
    January 25th, 2008 | 01:55

    Although I agree we’re all pirates and thieves here and therefore there’s no honor amongst us, I think the point that crap like this is bad for all of us is still valid.

    I don’t think me and my 5 movies a week is somehow better or worse than the millions of discs these guys crank off and sell in the streets, the difference, is in the ammo this gives to the entertainment industry.

    It’s a lot harder for the American government to pressure the other powers of the world to crackdown on pirates when the face of that piracy is a bunch of greasy guys in a garage with piles of scary computer equipment and not the greasy teenager in the prime ministers finished basement.

    Maybe it’s not the fact that they were making money that we should be mad about it’s the sloppy operation and the bad press making things harder for the rest of that should be the focus of the anger.

    happy sailing.

  26. nitrosdaez
    January 25th, 2008 | 01:56

    can a admin or something delete my 2 posts in here and copy/paste it to the vista sp1 thread please :D.

  27. Dude
    January 25th, 2008 | 02:09

    Busted! China has more of these burners

  28. Ingelvot
    January 25th, 2008 | 02:11

    Well there can be honor among thieves but still pirating only serves or own egoistic intrests, theres no doubt about that.

  29. afk
    January 25th, 2008 | 02:12

    Good thing they got busted imo… its annoying seeing all those pirated cds/dvds being sold.

    But as for the “harm” we do to movie companies is not that big.

    I do download many movies but i still go to the cinema and watch lots of movies. I Wouldnt download a movie if its not good quality and i prefer the big screen. I will also buy dvd movies i like and i have quite a collection of them. Would i ever go to the cinema or buy all the dvds of the movies i download? I guess not. I download most movies beacause i can and not because i want to steal from the companies. Most of them i dont even get to watch them anw.

  30. Crinan
    January 25th, 2008 | 02:13

    The scene is against these guys.Guys who make solid cash by ripping scene stolen material hey it’s nicked in the first place so what right do any of us have to condem these guys.Thats life making money crimanaly or straght whatever its all the same thing and prison these days aint all that bad so the risk is defo worth it.People buy cams on the street for as much as £4 a go the profit is big yea sure we all know its free but some of the cattle don’t.13p a disc wi some ink is that not over 300% profit christ coke dealers take more risk.I don’t personaly condem any criminal as i am a criminal in other ways myself.Also to the scene Feck you all stick your scene rules up your sisters a$$es you rip we rip stick your hipocratic rules where the sun don’t shine.

  31. William
    January 25th, 2008 | 02:16

    To all those who believe that this is perfectly fine to do: go ahead and do it. The rest of us will be laughing when your in court, facing serious copyright and fraud allegations.

  32. Crinan
    January 25th, 2008 | 02:21

    Also those duplicators shown in the picture can be bought from most online traders and dvdr shops what the hell are they selling them for in the first place surely we all know that there built and sold legally for making multi clones from these guys.Any1 got any numbers on how many dvdrs were sold worldwide in 2007 coz i bet 90% of them sold were not for recording the news.We all want money some people destroy countrys others rip and sell the latest porno or scene rls whos the criminal???

  33. Crinan
    January 25th, 2008 | 02:28

    one more thing im into sharing but one of the other comments said about the money industry that 90% of all of us work in you can bet i might share a rip or 10 but when its comes to my hard earned that goes to my family Feck yours mine comes first.Nice thought about the money industry tho.I couldn’t live without the money industry id have to pay my broadband connection with high grade grass since its a naturally grown product.

  34. WMD
    January 25th, 2008 | 02:38

    is it any better than what you disgusting yank pigs do? least we dont get sued day in day out. we dont sodamise and rape our cousins. we dont go to war for stupid reasons.

    heres a thought too STOP ADVERTISING THE SCENE ON THIS SCUM WEBSITE ! WAKE UP PLEASE. no wonder the scene hats people like you. RLSLOG = DIE .

  35. Malveus
    January 25th, 2008 | 02:59

    The reason these people were caught was in fact that they’d made over 3 million bootleg copies of Are we Done Yet, starring Ice Cube. Though the technology and organization was up to par, the individual in charge of market analysis was seriously impaired.

  36. !
    January 25th, 2008 | 03:00

    @67 completely agree with you
    and!

    if prices at australia are really 35 bucks a dvd. THen lol! yeah they are making 12 million a year because demand would be super high, releases would be way faster, and far cheaper….

    just wish i had my own thing going lol

    noooot…any one who advertises crime gets caught…that is why you don’t go big, these poor feelas fu(ked up

  37. owner
    January 25th, 2008 | 03:05

    “They deserve what they get”

    Sounds like someone’s jealous because they didn’t think of it first, lol.

  38. !
    January 25th, 2008 | 03:09

    message to WMD @134 go fu(k yourself, don’t come to a website you don’t like…..you see me at laker games no, cause im a fu(king kings fan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    #
    WMD
    January 25th, 2008 | 02:38

    is it any better than what you disgusting yank pigs do? least we dont get sued day in day out. we dont sodamise and rape our cousins. we dont go to war for stupid reasons.

    heres a thought too STOP ADVERTISING THE SCENE ON THIS SCUM WEBSITE ! WAKE UP PLEASE. no wonder the scene hats people like you. RLSLOG = DIE .

  39. Toms_Thumb
    January 25th, 2008 | 03:13

    @134

    “The Scene” can go fu*k itself for all I care. It’s a stupid monikor adopted by a bunch of girlfriendless geeks to make them feel less like criminals and more like.. well some kind of new age Che Guevara stickin’ it to the man activists.

    The scene is a clique within a clique within a clique, a bunch of jumped up, self obsessed, pimply teens, desperate for the merest feeling of self importance. They may get spat on at school, laughed at by the opposite sex, they may be socially awkward, unable to hold down well paid jobs due to a lack of people skills, they may be physically disadvataged, sickly, weak, perhaps hideously ugly? Whatever, their skilled computer users and they use their skills and their connections to do the only thing that gives them a place in life.

    The fact that the scene is exclusive goes against the very fundementals of what you “champions of freedom” profess the scene is all about.

    Answer this, why was AXXO hated by “THE SCENE!!!”?

  40. sinister
    January 25th, 2008 | 03:25

    lol @ Malveus

    They were probably caught trying to bury copies in a landfill, much like ATARI’s E.T. pit.

    ROTFL

  41. spooge
    January 25th, 2008 | 03:44

    I guess you could say they got “Burned”

  42. Thingy
    January 25th, 2008 | 03:50

    Its funny to see this posted on here. In one of our newspapers here “The Herald Sun” they run one of these types of stories at least 2-3 times a week! It seems that the AFACT group is shutting down 10,20,30, up to 100 million dollar a year “street value” pirated DVD operations that are “linked to a crime ring” each week. And yet I still see people at the local markets, outdoor swap meets and private sales doing quite well.

    AFACT is nothing more then the Aussie branch of the MPAA, complete with false facts, bad images and news stories that are intended to scare people into not buying, downloading or looking at pirated films.

    But like it was said before, DVD prices are rising higher here, Movie ticket prices are rising higher here. So its no wonder the pirated film “ring” here is a big market.

    But hey, people who get busted are idiots. It’s the little fish that will always swim free of the net.

  43. N0SCeN3
    January 25th, 2008 | 04:15

    totally agree with ya toms_thumb,an worst part bout them is they are always conning, an conniving ppl,at DVD factories an video shops to get them movies,telling them what they want to hear ,makethem feel important and they are “contributing to the greater good” by “sticking it to the man”,long live P2P…

  44. ssrat
    January 25th, 2008 | 04:21

    Of course this is IF all those burners were run 24/7, though I am not sure I think for the price of that set up you could pick up a good used automated duplication system, instead of having to manually load/unload ALL those burners

    THIS is where they should be focusing their efforts anyways

  45. four4
    January 25th, 2008 | 04:22

    You gotta love the holier than thou attitude everyone seems to share. I say if these cats want to make a few bucks selling movies to others who don’t have the technical know-how or means to download them, so be it. It really has little effect on the scene or even p2p at this point. If all the commercial bootleggers suddenly up and quit, do you really believe the MPAA would say, “Mission: success. Now we can just leave file sharers alone.” Anybody who says these guys got what they deserve are potential snitches in my book.

  46. xasd
    January 25th, 2008 | 04:44

    Here in Mexico theres markets that sells copy like that everywhere, and police walk by and do nothing :D most people here cant afford computers and internet, they hardly got enough money for food and rents, so its a good thing for poor countries.

  47. Noah
    January 25th, 2008 | 04:44

    agree with #69

    yep yep….

  48. sadworld
    January 25th, 2008 | 04:57

    haha thats funny. idiots.

  49. Warflike
    January 25th, 2008 | 05:00

    Is venturislife (Nr. 100) an MPAA/RIAA employee? He has no idea what he’s talking about. The movie industry is not ‘losing’ money at all unless you mean the fact that they posted less profit last year compared to the year before. Oh no what a loss!!!!!! Now I’m going to have a nervous breakdown because a few billionaires made a few billion less last year.

    Anyway we know who runs Australia: MPAA/RIAA and the FBI and who said Australia wasn’t an extention of the US? I would like to congratulate Australia on a job well done, whine your constitution is invalid because it was imposed on you by a foreign power and therefor don’t have to pay your parking fines. Please solve this problem by renaming your country United States of Australia, no more confusion which is good for all.

    Now all these guys have to do is claim the constitution is invalid and therefor can’t go to prison due to false and wrong laws. LOL @ Australia.

    Does the ‘invalid constitution’ argument also work for rapists and murderers?

  50. MrX
    January 25th, 2008 | 05:15

    let me get this right… a website full of illegal torrents for peeps to download and someone gets caught selling and you call them dumb? Martin look at what this site promotes, there is no fine line, you break the law as much as the next guy, you may not profit but you break the law simple. Comments like you made are the ones that look DUMB !
    Piracy is Piracy and we all take a risk no matter how small or large our operation may be.

  51. Aussie.
    January 25th, 2008 | 05:28

    One question to all of you..
    Ever been to Bali?

  52. matto
    January 25th, 2008 | 05:32

    gents: gotta love the attitude on this thread, and it’s time we all admit to being thieving scumbags too.

    sure, the industry puts out crap and we should really get a refund after having to watch/play/listen to some of the crap they sell so well.

    sure, we should all get better demos and more realistic trailers that don’t promise but never deliver.

    sure, they can cut down the packaging and save me some space and the environment too.

    sure, the real artists would still play/write/produce even if the suits didn’t pay them in drugs/cash/ego/fame.

    sure, film and music is overpriced (just look at where the profits go) so they only have themselves to blame.

    and sure, it’s not the best use of a good brain to go copy someone else’s hard work and sell it for your own gain. so yep, those dupers are stupid.

    but they are thieves just the same as you lot. and me. this site is a dupe centre - it’s not a private scene hub sharing a few newly cracked games. it’s a public, ad-funded website that links to copied content. just because there’s no rlslog carpet on a city street, covered in cut-price dvds, doesn’t mean that this is a charity.

    so, stupid they may be. hypocritical you are (and you know who you are). love this site though. love the releases. and guess what. if they started charging $5 bucks for a movie, or $3 for an album, I’d start paying.

    in fact, sometimes it’s more convenient to pick up one of those discs and stick it in the old-skool dvd player while my laptop is busy downloading even more crap.

  53. ryley
    January 25th, 2008 | 05:43

    Given it’s the western suburbs, I’m suprised it’s not drugs. But these services are not uncommon, and I hate to generalize, but they are usually in found in melbourne’s poorer suburbs and suburbs with higher levels of immigrants.

  54. Onyx
    January 25th, 2008 | 06:03

    Firstly the people involved were very likely AUSTALIAN RESIDENTS< giving the fact was are one of the most multicultural countries in the world.

    Obviously they thought they would find save haven here for their operations

  55. Onyx
    January 25th, 2008 | 06:06

    And true, how come if they are making 12 million a year, they have not relocated to some inaccessable location in a corporate high rise or simuliar.

    12 million a year people, think about that !.

    Obviously they were not making 12 million a year. Cop’s just LOVE to boast about big numbers, they do the same rubbish with all statistics…. crime reduction,drugs bust e.t.c

  56. Wankstar
    January 25th, 2008 | 06:52

    I like that you say that making profit from the scene is bad - yet you support a site which makes 5.000$ a month? … On advertising.

  57. derwhood
    January 25th, 2008 | 07:04

    haha
    there are many peeps in Sydney that do this and go around warehouse areas to flog em off. the idjuts at my old werk used to buy the flix for AUD$10 a pop!!! I must add that these ones did have a cover and picture disc (presented in a plastic bag, Thai style). This blokes “story” was that he is a pilot (pfft, yeah, thats why he drives a piece of crap and dresses in the stuff I threw out 5 years ago) and every time he goes to the states his ‘hook-ups’ in the film industry would give him advance dvd copies of films!! a bigger piece of b/s I yet to be told. I even told him to his face what he was doing was a joke, he said ‘what would you know’, I replied “I know I got all the movies your selling a long time ago, and for nix”
    oh well, he looked like a lonely man :D

  58. BScan
    January 25th, 2008 | 07:16

    I felt real down when I read that like they in jail like I know em. Then I notice this happend in Australia. Saying will this bust hurt U.S on bootlegers with stronger penalties.
    Who knows but looking at those pictures I think its making it here to us I just bought that. Its still bogus and rlslog holds links to the same pirated films sorry to say.
    We are true bootlegers in heart anybody can break out and sell some disc. Why cause we are smart enough to be on rlslog is good search tactics to all. They not stoping me Im gone get it but sorry boys.
    Remember they did bust em in a raid in the house so I still feel crazy damn guys.
    Do anybody feel like they shouldnt be doin this same stuff cause of an Australian bust U.S.A baby im back to it and gone.

  59. AlphA
    January 25th, 2008 | 07:25

    I’m a bit split in two over this.

    1. They are tools who are making a profit from the scene.
    2. But what is the difference in buying a burnt DVD from guys like this and downloading a DVD from P2P.

    Apart from the fact somebody is making a profit its the same thing you are still getting hold of a product that is not intended for the market at that time or for that price and the producer/owner isn’t making a cent.

    Don’t get me wrong however.. I am a massive fan of the scene and what it brings to us all.

  60. the blow man
    January 25th, 2008 | 07:27

    Just cause they were australian residents does not mean they are real stubby drinking kangaroo riding aussies, just means they fell off the last boat that immigration didn’t catch

  61. Derrick
    January 25th, 2008 | 08:31

    Sunshine? Yep, that’s all Vietnamese.

    I seriously hate pirates who sell crap quality products. I only download if a movie has not been released, or is banned. If it’s available for rent, or it’s out in cinemas, I’d rather pay to see it - unless it’s something like NORBIT.
    And only DVDRips. CAMS suck hard.

    I know a lot of people who sell bad quality DVD, and I know a lot who buy them. They must be blind because they don’t see a diff between a CAM and a Real DVD.

  62. mr.bean
    January 25th, 2008 | 08:31

    What brand/make and modell of PC-case are those drives housed in on the picture?

  63. WW2
    January 25th, 2008 | 08:45

    Toms_Thumb Axx0 is hated by the scene cause he just steals releases and reincodes them to 1cd and ruins the movie.takes credit turns gold into crap

    and “!” you can f(uk yourself and your country you yankie morbidly obese sack of feces.i hear bout school shootings day in and day out in America and i laugh my butt off until i pee a little cause your country deserves it
    you think this problem isn’t worse in your country? rednecks in your country do this day in day out and get caught every single time.
    i laugh even more at the hypocrites that are rlslog that advertise releases so much and just over feed on situations like this like suckling pigs.your not only hated by the scene your hated by private trackers.

    you download movies your already doing something wrong who gives a crap if someone sells it.

  64. Rekrul
    January 25th, 2008 | 08:58

    @85 fourth,

    “im a media student thats just finished writing an essay about dvd piracy, i tried to include all majour cases and now this happens the day after i handed it in. wank.”

    If your essay is anything like your message above, you’re going to flunk. :)

    As to commercial piracy: I’m in the US and I have a friend who used to buy pirated DVDs on an almost weekly basis. He would go to a flea market every Sunday and there would always be 2-3 sellers with boxes of bootleg DVDs. Each was in a slim-line case with a badly printed insert, some discs had artwork, some didn’t. Most were crappy cam copies. Back in 2005, he paid $13 for a bootleg of the movie Serenity. Besides the obvious lack of quality associated with cams, there was the back of someone’s head sticking up about 1/3 of the way up the screen and the idiot who filmed it couldn’t keep his hand off the focus control. Every 30-45 seconds, the image would go out of focus, then back in, back out, back in, etc. Besides the flea market, bootlegs were also available behind the counter in a little asian convenience store and there was a guy who used to come into local area bars selling them. To be fair, he did buy the official Serenity DVD when it came out, as did I.

    My friend stopped buying them mostly because he ran into unrelated money troubles. For the last year, I’ve been downloading various movies and making him copies. Making playable DVDs takes too long, so I usually just record them to video tape. He’s completely clueless about computers, so he couldn’t download his own movies even if he wanted to. Not only does he not know anything about computers, he has no desire to learn. He just wants new movies to watch and can’t afford to buy them anymore.

  65. mitch
    January 25th, 2008 | 09:18

    The photo is definately old, seen it in another article

  66. Floda
    January 25th, 2008 | 09:39

    “Just cause they were australian residents does not mean they are real stubby drinking kangaroo riding aussies, just means they fell off the last boat that immigration didn’t catch”

    My previous post was deleted for acknowledging that. Bloody Viets, no doubt.

  67. Two bit Criminal
    January 25th, 2008 | 10:48

    Yay!!!
    Maybe now that those dirty punks are gone, I can step up my own local operation, and get my own dvd burners.

    Ofcourse, I’ll stick with 50 or less. Im greedy, not stupid :P

  68. mupet0000
    January 25th, 2008 | 11:16

    If only people asked themselves, where do they get these DVD copys from so early??? They would figure out all they are doing is making money from something which is the scenes work and free.

    These idiots should stop selling.

  69. incog
    January 25th, 2008 | 11:24

    @ 164 Rekrul you are 1 idiot ive never laughed as much in years and i quote”Making playable DVDs takes too long, so I usually just record them to video tape.” hehehe what an idiotic thing to say rotflmfao you obviously havent a clue lmfao ohh and 1 thing i dare say theres a screener of the new rambo film about you will prolly find it getting sold at flea markets car boot sales and maybe pukka or someone affil to pukka will purchase it this week some time off some scum bag seller and it will get pre’d on some top site and eventually filter down to p2p gooo figure ;)

  70. WW2
    January 25th, 2008 | 11:31

    incong your a joke go home.

  71. incog
    January 25th, 2008 | 11:36

    @ww2 i am home funnily enough and your point??

  72. Bill Gates
    January 25th, 2008 | 11:43

    Hi Guys,
    I dont mind if you all want to download a copy of Windows Vista for free as my lawyers want to butt rape you for doing so.

    Thanks

    Bill

  73. incog
    January 25th, 2008 | 11:45

    @ ww2 Don’t be rude (permban) lol think calling me a joke was a tadd rude ww2(me upset)
    btw whats ww2 stand for??ohh i know wanker twice lol

  74. blob
    January 25th, 2008 | 11:56

    They are stand alone duplicators, you put the master in the top and then the blanks in the bottom.
    Anyone can bye them.
    Happy pirating :)

  75. hfghdfg
    January 25th, 2008 | 13:15

    Martin, rlslog makes money from the scene.
    Your comment about these ‘pirates’ is hypocritical.

    With an Alexa rank that hovers around 2000 rlslog is making good money from scene releases. And that ad money is mostly coming from scumbag companies, at least these guys got their cash from providing people with a product for a reasonable price.

  76. Toms_Thumb
    January 25th, 2008 | 13:29

    @163

    Axxo was hated because he took new scene releases and made them available to EVERYONE. They did not just get passed around private ftp servers so a group of sad teens (the scene) could earn brownie points with each other.

    Also, I am not from America lol.

  77. hfghdfg
    January 25th, 2008 | 13:49

    aXXo isn’t hated in the scene, he’s barely even known. Most scene groups don’t care if a p2p group (or individual) reencodes their stuff. It makes no difference. It’s not like aXXo leaks their releases, or compromises security in any way.

  78. PRO-PAIN
    January 25th, 2008 | 13:58

    Was Captain Morgan a pirate? ARRRRGH. He’s tasty. pour another.

    I d/l movies. But I don’t go the the theater. I don’t buy dvds. I don’t sell dvds.
    So who am I stealing from? They wouldn’t have made ANY money off me anyways. (by going to a theater or the video store)
    It’s the same as waiting for the movie to run on HBO (which I DO pay for, so I actually AM paying for the movie, right?)

    >2 pennys<

  79. cauchy
    January 25th, 2008 | 14:37

    why ppl are so freakin dumb ….

  80. foosnik
    January 25th, 2008 | 14:57

    I agree with you, Martin. They should not have been selling them like that.

  81. Rekrul
    January 25th, 2008 | 15:09

    @169 incog,

    A 90 minute movie takes 90 minutes to record to video tape. Converting the AVI to DVD format takes at least 2 hours for me, more if I want the best quality and set the software on 2-pass with all the optimizing options turned on. That’s using one of those 1-click conversion programs, most of which, the authors were too stupid to include an option to fit the output in a 4.5GB blank. So then I need an extra step to compress the 7-9GB output to 4.5, which adds at least another 40 minutes to the conversion process. And that’s if the program doesn’t choke on the AVI file, which seems to happen about 50% of the time.

    Or I could use a bunch of different programs to do the conversion the way the “experts” do it; One program to convert from AVI to Mpeg2, another program to convert and mux the audio, another program to turn the Mpeg2 files into a Video_TS folder, etc. Of course that wouldn’t be any faster either.

    However, I’m sure I’m missing the obvious. Please enlighten me as to what program will convert every AVI without fail and will output a Video_TS folder ready to burn to disc in less time than it takes to watch the movie on a 1.8Ghz system?

  82. John Poaal
    January 25th, 2008 | 15:27

    @ the Author

    Why do they make you sick? All the torrentsites earn money by every click with pirate movies/software. I don’t see the difference. Please tell me

  83. strangelove9
    January 25th, 2008 | 15:41

    @97

    Dude, East-Europeans are ALWAYS finding ways… it’s part of their culture to circumvent laws and regulations. Why do you thing there are so many Russian hackers?

    When you grow up under Communism, you learn to bypass certain things, reverse engineer stuff, repair anything and, most importantly, hide well!

  84. strangelove9
    January 25th, 2008 | 15:45

    oh, and don’t mind “110 - venturislife”…

    It’s kind of hard to take seriously anything posted after a phrase like “All of you IS a bunch of losers…” All your base are belong to us, anyone?

  85. strangelove9
    January 25th, 2008 | 15:47

    @181

    “Please enlighten me as to what program will convert every AVI without fail and will output a Video_TS folder ready to burn to disc in less time than it takes to watch the movie on a 1.8Ghz system?”

    Ever heard of VSO ConvertXtoDVD?

  86. incog
    January 25th, 2008 | 16:40

    @ rekrul 35 minutes start to finish using convertx2dvd plus you dont loose anything like you are doing ie going from digital to analogue lmao..plus you try copying that tape after! it takes 6 mins or so to make another copy of a dvd lol i honestly cant believe your post lol plus hooking your vhs player up to pc plus the fact how much does a blank tape cost??plus a dvd is smaller lol,plus if you get a proffesionally master multy you can have up to 3 films on 1 dvd with dolby 5.1 still intact and awesome picture quality sure it takes long to actually do that but you can get 1 off a scum bag seller for about price of 2 blank vhs tapes lol ;)

  87. Preacher
    January 25th, 2008 | 17:40

    With 12 million dollars they could hire a great defense team.

  88. cobra
    January 25th, 2008 | 18:23

    lol, sunshine and st albans is a very very scummy area, it’s no surprise. i’m just surprised they have not found many drug distributors there..

    But you are right, they deserve to get jailed for selling that much.

  89. 420
    January 25th, 2008 | 18:33

    Martin is such a hypocrite. I wonder how much money he is making off the scene by running this website. :mrgreen:

  90. MAXX
    January 25th, 2008 | 19:07

    I am a little vague here. These guys are making it available, if not for free, but at dirt cheap price, the movies on the streets! On the other hand some guys are also making it available on the net free but also paying regular net access free both givers and takers! So what is the difference in all of us?

  91. Lmnefw
    January 25th, 2008 | 21:30

    Is anyone surprised by these Australian sheep-shaggers. The only other place that is more incompetent is England with the northern monkeys and Yorkshire sheep-shaggers.

  92. boot2ben
    January 25th, 2008 | 21:46

    these aren’t pirates just lame leechers who should be sodomized by Media Defender and all anti-p2p alike…….i’m always a good pirate…”Share and Care”…..TPB rocks…..:P

  93. Toms_Angry_Now
    January 25th, 2008 | 22:02

    @191 Yorkshire sheep shaggers.. Where did that come from? I take it your not from the UK. The Welsh are the traditional British sheep shaggers.

    Actually, your name looks a little Welsh :0

  94. hardermach
    January 25th, 2008 | 23:25

    Great:)
    stupid to earn your money whit not legal software.

  95. rlslogsckadong
    January 26th, 2008 | 01:47

    once again i guess go f(ck yourselves you yank pigs.
    if you think america doesnt have bootleggers too you should pull yourself away from myspace you cake eating goth’s and step into some sunlight.

    that is if you dont get killed going to school cause your brash arrogant smug ways get yourselves shot up every day.

    and the creator of rlslog your site is more disgusting than any bootlegger. go back to limewire f(ckin homo

  96. Rekrul
    January 26th, 2008 | 06:23

    @186 incog,

    I did screw up and forget to mention one thing in my last message; I’m still using Windows 98SE. ConvertXtoDVD only works on 2K/XP. Yes, I know that my system is now considered as outdated as stone tablets and quill pens, but it’s what I have. I also probably should have said that converting from AVI to DVD takes too long “for me”. That’s what I thought I wrote, but looking at my first message, I see that I didn’t. I’ve tried every 98 compatible program I could find and either they take forever, choke on a lot of files, or create 7-9GB files that need to be re-compressed (because DL blanks are still too expensive).

    As for videotaping stuff; All I had to do to record the computer’s output was to use the S-Video to Composite cable that came with my video card. My friend supplies the tapes since I’m taping stuff for him, so it doesn’t cost me anything. Sure, the quality isn’t very good, but he’s getting free movies, so he really can’t complain. Then again he prefers fullscreen to widescreen, hates subtitled films and has happily watched screeners with huge copyright messages plastered right across the center of the screen, so it’s not like his tastes are all that refined. :)

    Frankly, I’d prefer it if he’d just learn to use a computer (he has a reasonably recent one that he recently inherited) then I could just burn the files to a blank, no coversion necessary. I’ve also tried to get him to get a player that supports Divx, but he’s having trouble paying his bills and doesn’t want to spend the money on one.

  97. katerinoula
    January 26th, 2008 | 12:04

    pirate realeses available in my local video store for rental $1 each.Always updated with new realeses, always in fine quality, with subs.If i like a movie i just copy it in 20 mins.I dont bother anymore waiting to download or buy them .I will never buy original products.NEVER EVER.

  98. kiac
    January 26th, 2008 | 18:09

    Hmm… i live in Melbourne, this wasn’t even on the news lol. Oh well, sucks to be them. Silly silly.

  99. chris
    January 26th, 2008 | 23:35

    12 million just to get passed around in prison. guess the risk was worth the reward :0

  100. pigs
    January 27th, 2008 | 01:47

    Toms_Thumb Axx0 is hated by the scene cause he just steals releases and reincodes them to 1cd and ruins the movie.takes credit turns gold into crap

    and “!” you can f(uk yourself and your country you yankie morbidly obese sack of feces.i hear bout school shootings day in and day out in America and i laugh my butt off until i pee a little cause your country deserves it
    you think this problem isn’t worse in your country? rednecks in your country do this day in day out and get caught every single time.
    i laugh even more at the hypocrites that are rlslog that advertise releases so much and just over feed on situations like this like suckling pigs.your not only hated by the scene your hated by private trackers.

    you download movies your already doing something wrong who gives a crap if someone sells it.

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