Thai police cracks down on billion-baht movie piracy network

[webfact]

Law enforcement conducted raids at four locations across Thailand, cracking down on an extensive online piracy network responsible for an illicit movie streaming platform that has been in operation for nearly two decades.

 

The raids, which took place yesterday, targeted two sites in Bangkok, one in Surin, and one in Surat Thani, aiming to dismantle the piracy network that has allegedly caused damages exceeding 1 billion baht.

 

The Intellectual Property and International Trade Court issued the search warrants that led to the concerted operation spearheaded by the Economic Crime Suppression Division (ECD).

 

The crackdown was the result of complaints from several private companies in the film industry against the website siambit.com, known for distributing pirated movies. The operation’s success followed an intensive investigation into the website’s operations, which revealed a well-organised system of piracy.

 

by Nattapong Westwood 

Photo courtesy of KhaoSod

 

Full story: The Thaiger 2024-02-16

 

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[ezzra]

There will always be some others who will take up the vacuum created by the raid, this business, and other illegal ones,

are just too lucrative to pass on...

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Law enforcement conducted raids at four locations across Thailand, cracking down on an extensive online piracy network responsible for an illicit movie streaming platform that has been in operation for nearly two decades

Did they finally rush to the scene?

[john donson]

streaming for 2 decades? you mean in the time of dial up and it took 24 hours to dl one ??

[BritScot]

Is it that time of year again? 

[recom273]

This is interesting - A Thai bittorrent indexer being busted. 

 

I dont think torrent downloaders need to worry so much, but going after a Thai website is a first afaik.

[mikebell]

The photo shows RTP browsing their weekend viewing.