The team at Methlabs.org are proud to announce a new direction in our piracy efforts. We have spent the last seven years working to bypass anti-piracy systems, but now we have decided to work with the MPAA and law-enforcement agents to crack down on the evil pirates.
“I used to think that the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) were breaching the privacy of users, but after a short visit to the MPAA headquarters I understand that was totally wrong.” said the self-professed founder of Methlabs, known by the on-line pseudonym “Method”, in a cellphone call from his brand new house in the Bahamas.
“We have ways of looking at the copyright problem that can only be seen from the inside,” he said. “Years of working to block the MPAA has shown us exactly what they’re doing wrong. We think we can triple the efficiency of anti-piracy operations globally.”
Cory Nelson, head of the Methlabs anti-piracy team said fans of Methlabs had nothing to worry about. “We’re still open and fair, we’re just using the skills we learned from BLOCKING the MPAA to help them. In a few years we might swap sides again. It’s fun.”
As a sign of good faith, Methlabs has given the MPAA full logs, emails, and IPs of all forum and irc members. “It’s a small step along the road to forgiveness,” said Method, “but it’s one I feel we must take.”
“I wish I’d seen the looks on peoples faces when we submitted all the IPs from our IRC server to the MPAA. Classic!” said Cory Nelson. “I know it’s cruel, but these people are the terrorists of the digital generation, and need to be dealt with to the full extent of the law.”
“Or beyond it,” he added. “In a post-Napster world we can’t afford to take chances”.
The MPAA were quick to praise Methlabs. In an address to delegates at the CopyCon Anti-Piracy Convention, MPAA President and CEO Dan Glickman announced the new partnership. In the speech, Glickman praised the service of the Methlabs team, and said that Methlabs was “a thriving and vital part of the on-line crime prevention effort.”
“Theft is having an impact on our bottom line,and it threatens the economic future of our industry. Digital theft is a menace that together we must eventually control. The illegal trafficking of movies on the Internet, usually on peer-to-peer networks, is our greatest challenge and we are working hard, with groups such as Methlabs, to address it head on.”
“This is only the beginning,” he said. “We are having serious and high-level discussions with other on-line privacy groups.”
Methlabs anti-piracy operations, dubbed CopyGuardian began shortly after the release of PeerGuardian 2.
“We felt we’d reached the best we could do with the PeerGuardian software,” said a Methlabs administrator, “so we thought it was time to try to excel in another field.”
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Its not April fools yet...
You think everyone lives in your time zone? No such thing as preparedness in your time zone?Originally Posted by black_magiic
Thats what I thought.
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You had me for about 3 secs Krell.
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I believed it. You can't trust a guy like that without numbers after his name.
I have a buddy that's 77 times the man he is.
C'mon man, I use peerguardian religiously, and there is no way that methlabs would team up with MPAA. :goodjob
I havent seen any good, original pranks yet. I couldn't even be bothered to read this one.
I'm not really malicious. I'm a nice guy.
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That's a good one! I can honestly say that you guys got me! I was getting ready to sue Methlabs for turning over my IP address to the MPAA without a subpena.
What's a time zone?
Does it have something to do with global warming?
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@Krell
Even though the story is hard to believe, but at least it shows there is more to you than just a computer geek. It probably surprised many others, that you could even make a joke! :)
Sorry, wasn't believable. Of course April Fools Day didn't have ANYTHING to do with this post, I am sure....
nah, it was a good joke, especially if you didn't actually READ it. Once read, it revealed itself.
“The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.” - Florence Nightingale
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