Top Thai pirate movie site shut down after complaints from Hollywood

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Top Thai pirate movie site shut down after complaints from Hollywood

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

The top rated pirate movie website "movie2free.com" has been shut down by the Department of Special Investigation. 

 

The free site was earning 5 million baht a month in advertising revenues per month and had 3,000 movies available to view. Most revenue was from gambling advertising. 

 

A 22 year old administrator living in Chiang Mai has been arrested said DSI director general Pol Col Paisit Wongmuang.

 

A thirty year old Thai man living abroad started the site in 2014. 

 

The DSI action followed complaints from the US Motion Picture Association and eight Hollywood movie agents last year. 

 

The site operated using sophisticated equipment and a server abroad to avoid detection. 

 

About ten million views were recorded each day. 

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

 

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[CelticBhoy 5,439]

"The site operated using sophisticated equipment and a server abroad to avoid detection."

 

That didn't work out too well then, did it?   

[rkidlad 23,570]

The website had been up and running since 2014 apparently. With 10 million views a day, what were the copyright police doing? Ah, that's right, they were shaking down children making Garfield floats. 

[ChakaKhan 687]

Good thing I still got my Thai Soapies!!!!!   Stares at screen slack-jawed.....

[ChipButty 5,128]

35 minutes ago, rkidlad said:

The website had been up and running since 2014 apparently. With 10 million views a day, what were the copyright police doing? Ah, that's right, they were shaking down children making Garfield floats. 

What was you expecting them to do? They were all watching it themselves 

[kevin612 398]

5 millions monthly revenue is an excellent number. Of course Hollywood wants to shut it down. It is all about money.

[BestB 9,964]

Hardly surprising or a big deal, next month a new site will pop up

[lujanit 1,536]

Pirate Bay was supposedly shut down years ago yet it just moved to the cloud and is going strong today.

[NCC1701A 39,142]

Captain Jack will not like this.

[Misterwhisper 10,090]

1 hour ago, rkidlad said:

The website had been up and running since 2014 apparently. With 10 million views a day, what were the copyright police doing? Ah, that's right, they were shaking down children making Garfield floats. 

Moreover, wretched foreigners (i.e. Hollywood agents) had to alert them to it. And if they hadn't, nothing would've happened.

[Orton Rd 10,177]

If Mircosoft put in a complaint half the computers in the country will have to be turned over to linux

[wwest5829 2,376]

Yeah, well. I am out of the game living on a fixed retirement income in Thailand as I can (currently) afford a working middle-class retirement, whereas I cannot afford the same in the US. Sorry, Hollywood, I have previously purchased hundreds of videos/ CDs and have absolutely no guilt about downloading those movies while in retirement. Glean you profits from those still working.

[zydeco 8,891]

10 minutes ago, wwest5829 said:

Yeah, well. I am out of the game living on a fixed retirement income in Thailand as I can (currently) afford a working middle-class retirement, whereas I cannot afford the same in the US. Sorry, Hollywood, I have previously purchased hundreds of videos/ CDs and have absolutely no guilt about downloading those movies while in retirement. Glean you profits from those still working.

For years I bought movies and tv series for VCR. They stopped making Beta, so I had to buy the same ones again on VHS. Then, I bought many of the same on laserdisc. When they phased out VHS, I had to move to DVD. I've bought the same damn shows three or four times over--not to mention that all these formats degrade rather quickly it turns out. So, I, too, think I've paid enough.

[Emdog 3,385]

8 hours ago, kevin612 said:

5 millions monthly revenue is an excellent number. Of course Hollywood wants to shut it down. It is all about money.

It takes money to make money, and films. Did you work for free, or do you work for free? Well then...

If your wife is going to hook on the side, you should at least a piece of the action.... if she is giving it away, well then we do have a problem

[Fred white 922]

9 hours ago, rkidlad said:

The website had been up and running since 2014 apparently. With 10 million views a day, what were the copyright police doing? Ah, that's right, they were shaking down children making Garfield floats. 

It's easier to shake down a 15 year old girl