Warez sites / forums, we are safe or...?

[l0calh0st]

Start legal sites now!

[Sp32]

Legal sites are a lot more profitable.

[Tagay]

FBI APPROACHING YOU.

RUN FOR YOUR LYFE.

I will hide in your house. [trollface]

[hatem20]

FBI is coming after you. Get rid of all illegal stuff that you have, delete all pirated contents you downloaded.

Warez was never safe before as a wrong thing can't be safe.

[Myth?]

One goes down hundreds more are started with even more similarity. So you think warez will ever die?

[mrrinmoy]

I won't close my sites!

[byte_s]

Alright, let's assume warez would never end, but fbi will never stop to catch a big fish. Illegal is illegal, legal is legal.

[MooreBraaains]

getting paid for uploading warez is probably done for, spreading and sharing warez won't ever die though

[Warri0r]

It's easy(and understandable): They no longer made enough money with their sites.

[aishamontreal]

Well.. if you don't have much to loose (you don't have a job, don't have kids, don't have a wife, is underage, live in a country of third world, etc) you are okay to continue. But if you plan to have a real life (with a fix job, get a superior degree, wanna have a family, etc) I would say STOP, you aren't safe and is risking your life plans.

As some of you guys know, I went arrested by FBI in October last year due to piracy and money laundering (and yeah I live in Brazil), but I was released after paid the bail. And note that I was already out of warez for 8 months or so when it happened.

But keep in mind that my case was a really unique exception, they almost never act like that, I stayed in jail for 6 days while my lawyers were trying to free me and I was only released because I've collabored with them, took down all my 25 servers including all my downloading sites, gave them my private bots (they were quitte complex, spent over $50.000 to develop them, guess they are using it now to takedown copyrighted material and trace people), paid a bail of $100.000 and then signed a term of compromise to don't do nothing illegal in internet again (with a penalty of 10 years in prison if I get caught doing something and more $25.000 for each day of illegal activity)

I was making over $10.000/mo with my downloading sites. Now I'm out all of this illegal shit and I'm running a legal porn site in Brazil making our own videos (and officially distributing Bangbros and Brazzers in Brazil) with a company legally registered and etc, making much more in 1 month than I used to make in 6 months of warez.

The lesson? I'm more mature now and I know how much warez harms content creators.