NinjaVideo Admins and Uploaders Indicted By Grand Jury

[Myth?]

Five people connected to the video streaming and download site NinjaVideo have been indicted by a grand jury on copyright infringement and conspiracy charges. All will stand trial in a U.S. District Court. The authorities hold the defendants responsible for providing access to unauthorized movies and TV-shows between 2008 and 2010, which allegedly earned the site more than $500,000.


At the end of June last year, nine sites connected to movie streaming were targeted by the U.S. Government, including NinjaVideo.
It was the first round in the ongoing Operation in our Sites through which more than 100 domain names have been seized to date.

In a few cases the authorities not only seized the domain names of the sites, but also launched full-fledged criminal investigations. One of these sites is NinjaVideo, and five people connected to the movie streaming site have now been indicated by a federal grand jury on suspicion of conspiracy and several copyright related offenses.

The 29-year old Hana Beshara and 23-year old Matthew Smith were charged as founders of the site. Zoi Mertzanis (36) and Joshua Evans (34) were identified as most active uploaders and Jeremy Andrew (33) as the person responsible for the site?s security.

Over the past several months the authorities negotiated with the NinjaVideo people, with the latter hoping to make a deal and settle the case, but these negotiations failed.
In response to the indictment Hana Beshara, better known as Phara on NinjaVideo, released an emotional video with her take on the events of the last months, and what still lies ahead. Although visibly shaken, Beshara says she stands behind her actions and doesn?t regret her involvement in the site.
?Everything we ever did was for the love of the game. It was so much fun. There?ll never be any regrets regarding NinjaVideo, ever.?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=nT74KfQxyNc

Myth? Reviewed by Myth? on 10th Sep 2011. NinjaVideo Admins and Uploaders Indicted By Grand Jury Five people connected to the video streaming and download site NinjaVideo have been indicted by a grand jury on copyright infringement and conspiracy charges. All will stand trial in a U.S. District Court. The authorities hold the defendants responsible for providing access to unauthorized movies and TV-shows between 2008 and 2010, which allegedly earned the site more than $500,000. At the end of June last year, nine sites connected to movie streaming were targeted by the U.S. Rating: 5

[Smith]

Yeah, read it today on torrentfreak. Stream websites are not that "safe" to run really.

[Myth?]

The video was the interesting part to me.

[Smith]

The video was the interesting part to me.

Of course it is. Girl cried because she know her life is now ruined simply because she was founder of website that allowed videos from 3rd party websites to be posted on her website. How easily can someone fuck up their life.

[Myth?]

Yeah It came as a surprise to me, that a woman was one of the founder. Usually not everybody gets their self involved in that kind of stuff.

[Smith]

I really feel sorry for her tho. And to make it worse, not only they got founder (her) but also other administrators and top uploaders.

[Sp32]

She must of missed all the commotion about copyright infringement being illegal.

[am21]

whts next ? sue people with movies + pirated software in their hard disk

[Myth?]

God I hope not because a lot of us would be paying fees.

[.:Raymond:.]

I really feel sorry for her tho. And to make it worse, not only they got founder (her) but also other administrators and top uploaders.

I dont, they knew what was coming and they still continued. They thought they were such bad asses and look where it got them now.