Bootlegs trader is getting sued by Police for having bootlegs

[Paganec]

Copied from bootlegs.su/boards

Hey guys,

i just got this mail from a fellow trader

check it out

Hi

Am contacting u on this email address as the RIAA ANTIPIRACY have shut down my website ,they raided my house on thursday morning !!! ,all my bootleg dvd is gone !!!! along with all my legit music collection,even my records,cds,all the 3 pcs are gone they even took all our mobile phones , spent 3 hours in the police station ! ,they said the riaa were watching my website because of the amount of bootlegs i had thats how i got caught !!! i told them i havent done anything wrong i dont sell anything,they said i am distributing illegal bootlegs which is against the law !!! am totally gutted !!! and am in big trouble !! there trying to do me with copyright protection, can u tell all your trading mates what has happened ! i suggest you take down your website too,my pc is full of links to all the sites i use including traders websites ! ive got into my old email address and permanently deleted every email and contact! to try and protect everyone else ,you can contact me on this email address,i see u have posted the dvds i will post them back to you or maybe its better i destroy them i cant have them in my house ! and i dont want you to give me your house address incase they find this email address .sorry about this ( cant belive ive lost everything all my collection !!

cheers Angie

what do you guys think about this???

[metmum]

Sounds highly unlikly, they can not take stuff you have purchased legimtaly ie his cd's and mobile phones. The rest depends which country he lives in. And the only reason they come down that hard on anyone is if they are selling them.

[norbinho]

i got that email from her yesterday too. she is from scotland.

what do you guys think of that?

[RafTen]

for me it looks like a fake

[norbinho]

for me it looks like a fake

what makes you think that, rafal? i hope you are right.

[tromster]

very weird and frightening story if it's true

[Sailing home]

If that would be true, all trader bootleg pages would be shut down. It's not that hard to track sites from bootlegs.
It's the world upside down if it would be true. People collect U2, Slayer, Megadeth, all other famous bands artists.
All have policy. Even bootleg download sites would be shut down. If the RIAA ANTIPIRACY would type in google
the word *bootleg*, the $$$$$ will pop up in there eyes from happiness. We would not have a community anymore
like metpage, metfuk or other sites in the near future if this was true.

[metmum]

The RIAA have no authority here (in the UK) it is the BPI and they haven't even wanted to take people to court over illegal downloads. They have only been goign after the extreme downloaders and don't go after anyone with concert DVD's because it is selling them that is illegal in this country. Owning them or swapping them isn't. If this trader is from Scotland then it is a crock of shit and they are trying to get out of sending there part of the trade on.

[Sailing home]

Yeah, that would be insane when this would be true.

[RafTen]

for me it looks like a fake

what makes you think that, rafal? i hope you are right.

Well, I think that would be a bit suspicious to shut down only one website and to ride only one person when there are tons of bootleg trading webistes/forums/trackers/hubs. I remeber when few years ago there was a strong and widely spread rumor in my country (or at least in my city) that the police has started an operation in consequence of which they were going to check most of the houses of people that often downloads illegal mp3 files. I saw posts of random people on message boards who claimed that their houses were raided, that their pc's were confiscated, that their cd/dvd discs were destroyed and that they have to pay penalty for every download mp3 file etc. etc. Few months later it was revealed that the rumor about this whole "operation" was purposely spread by the police and that all these claims were fakes and that police can't really do anything to stop people who downloads illegal music from internet, until they pass the files along or sell them. I just hope it's the same thing in this case. I'm not a lawyer but maybe someone here is and could tell us is it possible?