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Yo Dawg, I heard you liek MP3s...

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Virzeth

...so we're gonna put you in jail for up to 10 years, and give you an unlimited fine. Meet SOCA - aw yeah.

The 70,000 daily visitors to popular music site RnBXclusive.com were met with a purposely terrifying message on Tuesday and part of Wednesday. The UK's Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA) took the site down, arrested its operator, and threw up a splash page that warned downloaders of "up to 10 years imprisonment." Thought statutory damages of up to $150,000 per infringement in the US were ludicrous? SOCA warns that downloaders from the site could face an "unlimited fine under UK law."

SOCA also showed users their own IP address and warned that "the above information can be used to identify you and your location," adding that "SOCA has the capability to monitor and investigate you, and can inform your Internet service provider of these infringements."

From Ars Technica.

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Virzeth

I know. I don't like memes.

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MQQSE

Oh, those dishonorable rapscallions and their illegal downloads.

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thejadefalcon

Oh, fuck... I was hoping the UK wouldn't pull this shit...

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AvidWriter

It's sad you can do more jail time by downloads songs then by murdering an entire family. What is wrong with the world?

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Cim

It's run by corporate entities under the ruse of democracy. That's what's wrong with it. ;)

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skzorak

$

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Dreggon

Time for me to go murder a family. Then, when I get released, I'll taunt the guy who illegally downloaded music. That'll show him. Bonus points if it's his family that I kill.

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Janrok

Let's believe everything anyone says on the internet.

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yupignome

SOCA? Why so serious?

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thetallness

Haha, direct downloads.

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Onomatopesha

The letters remind me of something....

P.A.N.I.C.S (People Acting Normal In Crazy Ass Situations), from a F.E.A.R parody

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Yatterman

lol @ people who use public sites for downloading music.

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D33J

Agreed, and lol at muppets who run those kinda sites in the open. There's only so long you can taunt the sleeping beast before it wakes up and growls back at you.

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KonataIwakura

Oh no! The Muppets are now hosting MP3 sites?

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vectoral

Yeah...
If you're going to deliberately break the law, don't be an idiot when you do so.

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Inle

Soulseek and PirateBay send you their best regards :D

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Closed 12 years ago by Virzeth.