Ninja Video and movie pirate site closed

Ninja video was great. I would buy media if my purchased product was available streaming to me on whatever computer I may be using. This is why ninja video was so great. Why should I have to bother to download and cary a digital copy of something, it negates all the benefits of digital media. Instead of fighting ninja video, hollywood should have a stolen its business model – cheap access to streaming everything. It is not computer literate people's fault that the entertainment industry is so ass backwards. Instead of whining about declining physical sales, give us something we can't download with a cd or a movie, how about exclusive posters and stickers. It's not our fault media now comes on discs which are ripped onto a computer so easily… I was never able to rip a tape! As a child of the 90s, it is my right to get everything I possibly can out of my monthly internet feel. If you don't like it, make a real product, I sell something real; roofs, and guess what no one has ever pirated one of my jobs. lol
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I am crestfallen.

I don't know what I will do without my free television shows; I don't make enough money on a student budget to afford to pay $50 dollars every time I take a date to the movies.

For now, I'll just wait until another site pops up

I was ninjavideo user and to be honest I used it mostly to watch TV shows which were not available in the UK or were on a channels that that I did not have access to with my cable contract. Also I saw shows that I might have missed, or caught up on entire seasons of a show I missed first time round.

I don't see any problem with watching/streaming/downloading shows once they have been aired – and the bonus of this is that the less well know shows get talked about, blogged about everywhere in the world not just in the country of release.
If its positive talk this will have the effect of increasing the shows appeal and maybe getting a region to buy and air the show.

I work in the film and TV industry and I think the industry is just getting greedy and enjoys to moan and blame the failure of bad movies and bad TV ratings on web users. Just like the music industry went on about album sale dips because of file sharing.
Well they need to wake up and get with what's going on. The web is here to stay, files will always be copied just like people made tape copies back in the 80's. It will NOT kill the industry it will if anything make it harder for people to turn out crap and expect people to watch and listen to it.
If a studio turns out a dud film people will review online and tell people it's rubbish. Why they expect people to go to the cinema and pay £10 to see a poorly produced and directed film is beyond me. In fact Ninjavideo quite often had DVD rips of the low end films and if I was the studio I would be glad of any exposure they got at all.

AND PEOPLE WILL ALWAYS GO TO THE MOVIES , seeing a crap cam-copy of toy story is just for geeks who like to say they've seen it first, people will go and see a GOOD movie, its up to the studios to produce them.

So is it right or wrong to stream other people content? well of course legally it's wrong, but what a dull world we would live in if programmes were made and only aired in chosen countries, let alone the fact that some boring TV commisioner is flown out by a channel to choose what content they think the nation wants to see on their screens, that's like sending out one person to order takeout for a whole city!!

Sites like ninja gave people a choice of what they wanted to watch, where they wanted to watch and when they wanted to watch it.
VOD site works to a degree but it still means if I want to watch Treme from HBO and I'm in the UK , no chance, will a UK broadcaster show it? maybe, but when, christmas?
I want to watch it when it first airs or just after so ninja gave me that option. If HBO had international subscriptions and would stream it Ad free for a $1 an episode then I would have happy signed up.

RIP Ninjavideo

OMG!! NINJA VIDEO CLOSED!???? I think im gonna have a heart attack. Please excuse me whilst I sit here and die slowly…….

just had a heart attack… been goin to the site for 4 years… iii…. i cant go on…..

Societys which impeed the flow of information are doomed. Copyright was orginally intended to protect a writers ownership for a limited number of years. Disney has pushed and warped the laws to the point where copyright holder holds essentially a lifetime of rights.

NOOOOOO!!!!!! Ack so sad.

Ninja video was the best, its layout was easy to navigate through and they always provided quality and up to date shows. I undestand the copyright laws, but I only used it ,like most people, to catch up on shows I missed or shows that arent even shown in australia and probably never will. the quality of films is never going to be as good as in cinema and people know that, so regardless of it being online, people will rather see it at the cinema, if its a good enough film, which there havent been much of lately. I think instead of fighting piracy, the studios and fbi should try to be part of it, so we all can watch those great tv shows, the way ninja video gave it to us….

RIP ninja video

I hope you guys come back!!, you were the best Ninjas!!!

The movies were good but i really miss all the documentaries and TV shows. They always had all the best ones in amazing quality. Please come back NinjaVideo!! My week nights are so boring without you!

Hollywod should come up with a similar service that ninja provided.The reason people flocked to this site is that no one else provided anything like it.

I work in the entertainment industry. While I think pirating is bad – copying and selling on DVD – I have no qualms about TV programs being uploaded and available for viewing. So many pro and con arguments can be made but domiciled here in a foreign country – I can not access on free-to-air or cable TV most of these USA based shows. NinjaVideo was superb! I was a subscriber and was getting ready to send in another "thank you" subscription fee when this US government action took place. Phara and gang, I hope you can get things back in order quickly. Let me know and I will be glad to send $$ along to support

Thanks so much

The best eulogy yet, pass the word when you have found a site it's equal.

I never downloaded any movies or anything else. I just watched TV shows mostly ones which had been canceled . So I'm really upset about the whole thing

Stop the press!!
should the next step be taking people to court, freezing their accounts for:
Lending a firend a DVD that they have purchased?
Letting people into their homes with a television set switched on?

Is it Copyright infringing or profit capture?
Movies make millions of pounds profit from the flims they make, so if we lived in a fair world, could we say that when a movie makes double its cost then it can be distrubuted online?
And for those who dont have a PVR (reorder) all TV stations MUST provide a 3 month live stream on their site as part of a free service (like BBC I player)

Repeats and poor movies!
How mny times will studios make the same story over again, movies tend to either follow a predictable pattern, the same story or are a remake of a flim that has been produced, and this can be either good or bad. they market the flims using misleading trailers and market hype (cloverfeild, WOW to name a few) and they make large volumes of money selling over priced discs that become faulty so people have to buy it again, as downloading it would result in the law banging at your door.

I think Ninja did a good job on there website for keeping the TV shows up to date and also keep records of these so I and many others could watch shows they missed paying the taxes that got them locked up and shut down.

Maybe if ninja was a totally members viewing only website, then they would NOT be breaking the laws as some one paid for it and lending (not for profit) is not in breach of the laws the studios are chasing them for.

What a waste of time closing down ninjavideo net whereas they should be going after porn sites, hate sites and terrorist recruiting sites. You take down one site and 1,000 more will come up and be harder to take down. They can't even find Bid Laden after all these years, but instead they go after the little people instead and that is not fair. Goodbeye ninjavideo.net and hello to the many more online tv & movie streamers that are being created.

its not democratic!!

I live in Europe. Hard to come by latest episodes of House from here. BTW, TV episodes are avail free by HULU. 99% of what ninja was doing was identical. Lets face it, I'll check out 'Glee' on ninjavideo but I'm never going to be in line to buy the DVD set of season 1. Because on NV, I caught up on Lost then watched the rest of the series on TV. Basically, because of NV, the producers of Lost gained a viewer. I illegally downloaded music for a band once. Loved it. Bought the last 3 cd's of said band and also saw a concert and bought merch. So, I used pirate sites to make legit industry money.. hmm… go figure.

I agree with all the comments above! I too was only interested in watching the TV shows, that I missed or could not get on Cable.
I only hope another web streaming site does something similar and with good quality like Ninjavideo.net soon!! without breaking the law.
Good Luck Ninja! we will miss you!!

This is bullshit!!!!!!!!! I'm so lost since ninjavideo is down : ( my weeks night will be boring as hell!

With record profits recorded my movie studios, sites like NinjaVideo and its spinoff wheresmyshow, a site run by disgruntled ex ninja uploader khaalida, have been double dipping and its the consumer who ultimately pays.
I say this is a good thing as it may push the movies studios to develop something similiar that actually works. The want is there, the market is there. Give us a good product.

"Pirate" sites are of the movie industry's own making. The screeners come from their own people. DVR technology has gathered acceptance. This is the next step in entertainment evolution. I would advise that Hollyweird embrace the technology and not fight the inevitable. They scream of lost profits every year to justify ticket price increases. Why are there $200 million opening weekends for the next retreaded storyline?

Sad!

Let's be clear here. Who do the FBI serve? I don't think they serve the poor or what's left of the middle class. No doubt those that use these free sites are not among the wealthy whom the FBI serve.

If hollywood did it, they'd make us pay

unfortunately, it will probably never be as good as ninjavideo.net

It's indeed quite sad that Ninjavideo.net, no longer exists and even though there are other sites to which consumers may still have access to, the quality of the videos aren't as good. I agree with the comment that, if it's a good movie than consumers will be willing to pay. I mean I am the type of person that refuses to watch "bootlegged" movies online, in fear that the quality sucks, and I'd rather pay the extra money. Of course it does bite you in the rear end when the movie turns out to be horrible, but hey, I LOVED Toy Story 3, it was DEFINATELY worth paying the money.

However, with sites like Ninjavideo.net, it allowed consumers who just simply couldn't afford the money to watch movies. With many movies being released in 3D now, consumers are FORCED to pay an extra free, for the 3D glasses and be expected to return them back, and yet have to pay once again to watch another 3D movie. And like many viewers of ninja., I used the site mainly for tv shows. With school and work, who has time for regular television?

Oh well, what's done is done. Hope to see Ninja back though.

It's indeed quite sad that Ninjavideo.net, no longer exists and even though there are other sites to which consumers may still have access to, the quality of the videos aren't as good. I agree with the comment that, if it's a good movie than consumers will be willing to pay. I mean I am the type of person that refuses to watch "bootlegged" movies online, in fear that the quality sucks, and I'd rather pay the extra money. Of course it does bite you in the rear end when the movie turns out to be horrible, but hey, I LOVED Toy Story 3, it was DEFINATELY worth paying the money.

If your life has been touched, changed, or affected in any way by Ninjavideo, please submit your experiences and letters of what Ninja meant to you, not just shows but as a community and the help they brought you, soldiers, celebs, single moms sounds, etc etc. If you are military and ever wanted to feel like you were home watching TV with your family, let us know.

areyouarevolutionary@hushmail.com

Thanks in advance for your time.

ninjavideo ruled nobody mentioned about the technical help they also offered you and yes i was one of the first twenty people to sign up and my life sucks now without ninja, phara and other mods i commend you, please don't let this dictatorship which they call democracy put you down or stop you please let me know if you start up again, i wld donate in a second

hotlee

someone let me know if there will be any other site likes ninjavideo! im so sad!!!!

Damn. That sucks.
But I didn't really use ninjavideo for movies. Actually, it's probably the one area I didn't give a crap about.
I followed American shows on it. I just cannot physically and mentally watch shows on TV on a scheduled time. Even if I pay for the channel on my cable TV. And I am definitely not willing to pay the price to upgrade my cable station with no HDD to one with HDD.

I watched a few programs on Ninja, The Mentalist, Lie To Me and House. I watched them there because I do not get the chance to see them on TV due to family.

this totally sucks. NinjaVideo was the most AWESOME streaming site out there. It had the BEST quality, the BEST speed, and the BEST admins. It gave funny feedback on the shows and it always stayed up to date. Just by taking down a few piracy sites doesn't mean that people are going to go buy the $50 to $80 DVDs of the movie or go watch it in the cinemas. It's just not convenient and it's NOT going to happen. Instead of trying to fight it like idiots, why don't they try to recreate the success of online streaming and make it follow their stupid laws; if they were smart, they would've used NinjaVideo to their advantage and created some kind of $5/month subscription or something. I would definitely have paid that to get NinjaVideo's quality, admins, and variety they offered. The law is such bullsh*t these days.

R.I.P NinjaVideo. Hope to see you back one day.

I'm so sad that ninjavideo is closed. ಥ_ಥ They probably wouldn't have gotten caught if they had just listed tv shows, instead of making people pay to download movies. TV shows are streamed all over, even on main sites like Hulu, so it shouldn't be a big deal. I think they probably got in trouble because they were essentially selling pirated movies. Either way, the people who created it should get it back up and running!!! Sites like watch-movies.net has gotten caught several times by the feds (4 or 5 in the past few years), and they always pop up again with a new domain name within a few days. The difference is, though, that they aren't charging for it. I loved ninjavideo, but I think they got greedy, and that's why they got caught.

Hey! I've been wondering where I woke up this morning…Everything seemed normal, my house, the neighbors, even my dog. It still seems like I'm in Iran though, hmmmm. F*@k the U.S government. I pay tax's on my income, then pay tax's to spend it. Can anybody say, double taxation? How dare they get into my computer.

It was free.

Ummmm i was never charged for anything.

Ninja video let me keep up to date with my favorite TV shows, as well as shows not available in the US.

I'll miss it.

lol if you think it's a dictatorship, I think you need to move to North Korea.

how does your tax rate have anything to do with a pirating site? lawl.

It allmost made me cry… :´(
Never really used it for movies, but it did in many ways replace my tv.
Still have all channels available so I can follow my soccer team (FC Copenhagen yay).
I could never watch a show on tv as I wont let air times dictate when I watch tv.
And I would never pay for a movie, music or otherwise unless I watched, read or
listen to it first. Getting robbed like that is so 90's.
But you cant keep a ninja down.
Untill then ill get my fix on one of the billions of other sites providing my fix.
They are not as awsome, but they will do…

NOOOOOOOOOOO

there will be another site taking ninjavideos place sooner or later, thats why the internet is Great!! but all the same im gonna miss ninjavideo big time RIP..

I morn with you

Ninja was a very useful site, I don't see why the government won't all them to put the site back up, permitting the abolishment of the downloading aspect….

I have found no site to replace ninja yet D=

aaarrrgggh!!! I loved ninjavideo – I only just found out it was closed down: I was trying to get on there and watch some episodes of shows that don't air in Australia. How am I supposed to do that now??

hey, here's an observation, any one else remember how the UNITED STATES ARMY was so heavy into advertising on Ninja Video? and now the US government closes them down. anyone else see the logic there? cause i don't.

hold on now lets not get crazy and go after porn sites

SECOND that! I don't think the movie industry has grasped the idea of portable digital media yet, especially with the ever rapidly increasing and changing digital world. People have different tastes now, and not many people today are going to bother buying cds and dvds of movies that they can freely get (well, almost free with the internet bill).

If a movie is good enough it will get the profits it deserves, and I think the box office confirms this for many movies. I don't see any need for them however to sell dvds and cds at such a high price! For one dvd worth $30, i can get the possibly 100 more dvds in internet connection fee through download, the math speaks for itself ( and in this case the economics ).

I think it is very clear from all the comments here that many people disagree with what has happened, this will not go down well. There go all our choices of tv shows and movies that no other site can compare to.

Ah NinjaVideo RIP! best orgnized site. I have a backup but i still miss ninjavideo cus it was easy to navigate now I have to remember what show will come when.

So you made her watch them on your lap top and fed her microwaved popcorn?
Hahaha loves it.

wow… this is terrible… i just came back from vacation and was going to catch up on my shows… but ninjavideo is not working… this is really depressing…

Fiddle sticks. I'm stuck in Winnipeg for another two months left on my contract. Maybe… hmmm… maybe I'll go outside.

Ninja Video was taken down because they found the loophole. The DMRA stated yo couldn't own a electronic copy of a copyrighted product (e.g. music, video, book) unless you owned the original. Many of us used the site as a rental system. and out of those 99% of us only used it for things that were already public domain. What is the government going to do next arrest us all for having Rankin and bass Rudolph recordings off the TV from Christmas time when we were kids on a VHS. This has to stop. We are letting our governments take control of all aspects of our lives. Just by posting this comment I am leaving my IP for someone to come and get it if they want. Freedom of speech is non-existent any more. We cant do anything with out leaving a trail in our wake. Those of us making the difference out in the world are getting Trampled by people who the most exerting thing they have to do is sign a warrant for our arrest. Remember Kevin Mitnick and Kaptain Krunch, You can get one of us but you will never get us all. Next time it may be hosted in the Netherlands like ThePirateBay or somewhere else the American long arm cant reach. I remind people of the hacker manifesto.
I am an American and I am in the IT business. But I hate the way my country handles its dirty laundry. We need to stop being the little sister tattling on everyone for something harmless and do some good. Imagine the manpower that went into the build up and culmination of this sting and all the others before it. if a tenth of that effort was put into cleaning out a crack house or saving some kid from child prostitution or catching a serial killer we would already have a better world. but instead we keep whining about copyright and piracy. That is my tax money and some day a long time ago my say would have affected how it was used. Not now. A change is coming and if we cant get our heads on straight we will be dealing with much worse before it gets better.

An Era has ended today. I call for action. I call for protest on congress and movement to a more realistic government where people don't do things like this to cover them getting cough with their hands in the cookie jar.

Glitch

I'll make no difference. It's not as if those people who were watching videos from Ninjavideo are suddenly start going to Blockbuster. They are simply going to choose one of the other hundreds of sites that offer pretty much the same thing that Ninjavideo did.

PETE i think you are completely right and your statement couldnt of been put better. we need real people in the movie industrie not real idiots.

Ninja video was an epic site, All I did was use it for megapload videos which showed what was the newest update. I would never download films off of here all I ever used was the streaming factor. Even the programs which wud have been on tv for a while.

I am devastated and gutted. I wish that this site was re instated so i can watch programs when I want and how I want.

Ummm… this actually is not about taxes. The movie industry is what profits from this, not the government. Hell, if the government were going to make money off this, at least maybe the people of this country might see some benefit – instead, somebody needs another Hummer limo, so they're crying and stamping their feet until the FBI enforces the (questionably just) law.

If you get any IP blocking software like hotspot shield or something similar, than you can watch treme on hbo and what not. I live in Canada and am faced with most of the same problems so thats what worked for me. I would much rather just have ninjavideo back…

The first time I watched something on Ninjavideo it was because I'd tried to buy anepisode of a show off of ITunes and it wasn't available in my country. It would be a least a few more months before it aired over here and I, for once, didn't want to get spoiled when reading TWOP or EW. So I was actually forced from legitimate means on to Ninja. Until US TV companies get with the game (and, similarily, BBC airs show on BBC America at the same time) these sites are always going ot have an audience.

Oh no! I am stationed overseas with my husband who is in the military and this was my way to watch TV shows after they aired because you can't use network websites withput an US ip address….UGH!!!

Ninjavideo was an awesome site. I live in Canada, and I watched british TV before it reached Canada on it. There are no other sites I can do this on that I trust. I could trust Ninjavideo not to harm my computer, whereas most other sites are links to a video that lead you on wild goose chases to popups, spyware and viruses. In its absence, my family has tried to find other tv online, and consequently have lost two computers to viruses, and my own is acting up aswell.

It is truly a shame that such an amazing site had to be shut down, because really it was more than just videos. There was a community growing there. An entire internet civilization shut down.

RIP Ninjavideo.

I only used ninja video when i missed the movie in the theater ( i drive a semi truck for a living). i also used it after the movie was out on DVD to decide if i wanted to buy it or not. I have Cable at home, and now i find out they want to raise my monthly payment again. Why doesn't the Government do something about them?

When all fails Torrents prevail!

This is Crap!!! The FBI just wants to make more money for the Movie companies (like they didnt make enough already) This is what is wrong with the U.S. They could have spent this time and money finding Bin Laden or fixing the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico but no….lets shut down a cool site that the poor and lower middle class use for fun, lets just make their lives even more miserable. I loved Ninjavideo.net and I think it's criminal what they did to these poor guys that provided a great site for the rest of us, I too liked to watch TV shows that I may have missed due to work or other engagement, I mean who really wants to watch thoise screeners anyway? I just think that the FBI should have something better to do with their time than this crap.

Ninjavideo was awesome! Not only that I am not sure how the US government has the right to sieze a website. No one has control of the internet and these Hollywood douche bag's that are reaping in millions of dollars from theater sales as well as DVD sales arent hurting from websites like this. I have been looking around the internet and found some forums saying that ninjavideo will be back up shortly and I am hoping that this is true. Im still in shock that US gov. was even able to touch ninjavideo being from another country and being on the internet. Congrats for censorship.

Well Really Geverment you don't know how to handle people.
I'm not sad but Dam this is anoying!!
Listen It's all the same example Drugs If They say no You want it even more (no i don't take drugs so i'll give another example): When There are 5 People And they Say you can Laugh and make Jokes with These 4 But not with This one… What Would you Do ? Of Course go for that one guy People like to do things they can't do this will only make things Wors but do what you want

I don't see the harm in watching T.V. shows and documentaries. most (if not all) of us viewers of ninja video, pay our T.V. licenses. It was awsome being able to watch what you want, when you want. Just like someone else here said – with the busy lifestyles of working and studying, who can afford to sit around, sifting through all the crap they shove at us, just to watch the one or two shows they like. Thank you Ninja Video for providing pure entertainment for the masses. Fuck the corruption in hollywood and the movie industry. And fuck paying to watch the same old story lines presented in pretty packages. Should we, each as individuals, not get the choice of what we find to be entertaining? Or do we have to suffer being mislead and taken advantage of till the end of days? We are bombarded constantly and relentlessly with brainwashing techniques in the form of adverts . The whole industry is just about tricking the little people into wasting their hard earned money. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The whole thing sucks. Will we all just end up as slaves to money? It's time for change…

This is some bullcrap! If the entertainment industry really wants to shut down lost dollars they ought to equip all theaters with infrared cams and catch all the copiers. Ninjavideo was/is a very professional site that posted shows and media. Why should they be harassed and shut down for linking current media for their patrons. I am praying for Ninjavideo friends and family, stay strong.

It is deplorable that Ninjavideo has been shut down. We used it to keep up with the TV shows we cannot get living in a foreign country….There are other websites but their picture quality is not as good as Ninja's and they did not have the large library of shows. What we loved is that they kept it well updated. We will sorely miss Glee, Fringe, CSI's, Mentalist, Burn Notice, Psych, Dirtiest Jobs, travel shows, etc… So sad that it has come to this…. ( We hope to find another site like Ninja, better still we hope Ninja opens up again!!!!

This is SoberJoe a CURRENT mod at ninja and am now helping run the blog and twitter for Save Ninja Video. For more info check out the blog (www.saveninjavideo.net) and twitter (http://twitter.com/SaveNinjaVideo). All current news is on the blog…. but in case you were wondering the forum IS coming back up. We are not just a site we are a community.

Said like it is.

AARRG

what about people in Denmark. Now i have to wait a year or two before the Danish tv will send my shows…they are so slow, that's the reason that im ninjavideo fan,… i can see all the geart show before they come on tv here…..
miss bones, desperat, glee, life, all of them…and can't go to sleep…

sad sad sad sad sad sad sad sad

tvshack.cc been using it for a long time and it's fine.

Ninja video offered the greatest selection and quality of shows that our cable tv couldn't nor their wedsites. I mostly used Ninja video to watch educational tv shows from past years that I never got a chance to see and see some old tv cartoon shows that I loved. Is it a crime, to close a website offering online users the ability to watch their favourite shows whenever they want, while the cable channels do not offer the same service, on their websites? Like most, people do have a life and will go to the movies to watch a movie and even buy the dvd if they really enjoyed it. Governments are retarded and runned by criminals and lying crooks who are over paid to sit on their asses and charge the tax payer for the cup of coffee they had in the morning. If you want to close sites like these, you might as well close down facebook, twitter and cell phone usage since they have deviated human beings from their proper and natural social behaviour.

I disagree because with the high prices of going to the movie, and the equally high prices of renting a video, I feel that these sites are great. Boo hoo that the directors and actors don't get any more money, that their millions on the movie, and make more from rentals too. Keep these sites open and I for one will continue to go to them!

What wankers, they are porn websites which are illegal and terrorist recruiting sites but they close down ninjavideo..where i watch mostly TV shows WHICH AREN'T EVEN FUCKING AIRED IN THE UK….this is pathetic.

Ninja Video Has Gone!1!!1!!!!!!11!!!!!!!!!!!11111!11 <- I think that's how they liked to do it, Frigin idiots..

Where a Few !! would be just fine..

How glade I'm I that this nasty little up its own Arse site has final be taken off the net..The site offered Programs Be it TV shows, Movies ect, Most they programs where made with other peoples Money and to reclaim that money so they could make more shows they tend to charge for them, as most services do..

Give these servers away free, IMO would eventually see such things ether declining in quality and frequency

so back to NinjaVideo.. If you going to Offer Such Server, which is piracy..Doesn't matter how you hide it,its Illegal.. But Ninja Didn't do such a thing , they shouted about it as loud as they could, They acted like they made the show All the material on their site was Written, Financed and directed by their lame Arsed nasty, Cruel, should burn in fire Admin…

Nothing worked and if you ever said anything in the forum they would Ban you..whilst sucking all the shit out of the Fat cunt Phara's Arse, Phara please urban dictionary dictionary her, also check ninjavideo Suck to see some picture of this Ugly nasty creature… No wonder she hid behind a computer screen looking like that…

Goodbye ninja video and HAHAHAHAHAHA fuck you..Hope you all get locked up..

Ninja Video Has Gone!1!!1!!!!!!11!!!!!!!!!!!11111!11 <- I think that's how they liked to do it, Frigin idiots..

This is just pure stupidity. Do they really think closing Ninjavids wil increase ticket sales? People go to the movies b/c they want to see the film with the whole theater experience: huge and with kick-ass stereo. Or they do it as a social thing…with a date or friends. The ones that sit at home and view on their computer screens are folks that are not going to watch on the big screen. I am one of those people. I'd occasionally watch online and then purchase the film when it released on dvd, if it was any good. Mainly I used ninjavideo to catch up on missed episodes as the host network website usually was filled with tons of commercials and a annoying-to-navigate format that made you search through tons of studio-based propaganda to watch what you wanted. Most just air the last couple of eps as well. Hate to break it to TPTB that spent millions on this sting, but I'm not changing my habits and shelling out any more for those overpriced tickets than when I wasn't occasionally popping by pirate hosting sites.

aslong as the actors and singers are gettin payed way way to much for what they do,thats all i say

this site contains many viruses

i think its unfare that ninjavideo has been closed i mean i used it to watch programs that aren't shown anymore or at all in the UK. I don't think its harmful because by watching it online you tell others to watch it and probably end up buying the tv series. this is pathetic, closing down the sites people use to watch programs will do nothing but make the public mad. i mean come on if you wan't to stop people watching online don't cancel the shows or run them on tv and the problem will be solved.

ninja video was brill i was able to catch on lots of episodes that i never got to finish and i also saw shows that wernt shown here NInjavideo was brill, they were a steal they were site of the fing century lol

Against stupidity even the gods fight in vain!

I'm from denmark and I just want to say tnx to the ppl behind ninjavideo, you guys did a great job!!
I and many other ppl here would also donate if you start again.

NINJAVIDEO, WE ALL HOPE YOU'll RETURN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ninja never charged, I'm pretty sure they accepted donations. nobody cares about your forum problems, 8 times out of 10 if the movie didn't work it was the users end

most of the people will pay if a pay streaming sight was as convenient as ninja. I would pay for streaming HD DRM free media content like ninja had

Well I didn't watch any movies on NinjaVideo, I was watching TV Shows which aren't shown here in Europe where I live, I dunno what am I going to do now with such a great website taken down…

ah M G this sow stupid ninjavideo was great this sucks

It's all wrong, it should only be illegal if the movie sites are making money of it, which ninja video wasn't.

So sad that NijaVid is gone, will very much miss getting shows, docus, music etc on demand that you cant get here in the UK. Was not so bothered about the movies as mostly they were bad quality but at least you could watch them to see if you were prepared to pay the extortionate amount that cinemas charge. I would prefer to watch movies in the cinema but the industry prices themselves out. If films were not so expensive to go and see I would go more well, that is I would go – I cant afford to at the moment.

But NinjaVid was not just about movies, in fact that was just a small part of their excellent site. The Film/tv industry has got it arse backwards and is too interested in profits for fatcats. I cant see how sites like that made much of a dent in profits, I cant afford to go to the movies or pay for sky etc anyway, Ninja did not take business, they create it ; If there were more sites like Ninja they would find a wider audience for their movies and shows, I came across quite a few amazing shows I would not have seen without Ninja and of course talk to friends about them, this creates demand. And what about the the small/independent film makers that got their first movies aired on Ninja and sites like this, what about the artists that put their work on the site, Ninja was about much more than crappy camcorder movies.

Taking down these sites makes me want to boycott cinemas/sky etc not pay for their services. Shame on the industry for denying that part of the world who cant afford to access these shows/films any other way. And to Phara et al, thank you sooooo much for running the best site on the web. All good things must come to an end but I'm sure you wont let the fatcat w*nkers keep you down! All the best to you all and if you set up a new site you can count on a donation from me..

Really upset that is has been closed down. I never downloaded any movies anyway. I just watched tv shows ive missed or caught up on my favourite shows like CSI NY or CSI Miami.
It was a good resource for streamed content and I can see the problem in streaming content that has always been aired. Something will always turn up in it's place anyway.

please everyone go to icefilms.info it's a sister site for ninjavideos run by ex ninjas please enjoy while it last

They deserved it, the way the admins of that site treated users was truly disgusting.

1. ninjavideo has no sister sites, any other site that says that is a rip off
2. everyone who misses ninja stop by the 'new' forum http://www.ninvideoforum.net
3. if you want to show your support please consider donating a $ or two to help the admins in their legal fight http://www.ninjavideoforum.net/viewtopic.php?pid=…

I was a french user, it's a terrible new for me…. I hope their troubles with US justice won't be too serious…
Tanks for all the good moments you gave me; instead of the french TV that sucks…

Good luck for the ninjas…
LN

NinjaVideo was a great website. I live abroad so all legal players are unavailable to me. It was my only way of watching a few shows in English and in DIVX quality. From my point of view, nobody is losing out. The shows get their ratings from the country they are being watched in and I would never have bought them on DVD/BluRay. All the legal websites need to offer their services abroad.

It is interesting how such as in the UK we have BBC iPlayer which is free to anyone in the UK regardless of whether they have paid for a TV license or not.

Yes Ninja and all the other websites were illegal but they filled a gap in the market. If the TV companies don't like it, they should do something so that we don't need to go to sites like NInja etc to watch shows.

Now, of course that little bit of comfort that helped me live away from home has been taken away. So what am I doing, I am looking for more sites that haven't been shut down yet.

They have won the battle but not the war. It is human nature to climb over the walls that they build in front of us. Just like nature finds a way (Jurassic Park), people find a way.

Ninja and the like did for very little revenue what the big companies can't do for any amount of cash. They kept it simple and they did it for the love of it. But what do the companies do? They react negatively rather than positively. They bring in the lawyers who these days will sink as low into the crap as possible to get work (and rather healthy earnings I might add). They set the dogs onto them.

It will happen again and again. I'm off to look for some TV programmes to watch! Anyone know any good sites!!!!!

A ot of people are saying they watch only the TV shows , and so did I…. but that’s not the f****** argument here. THEY HAVE NO RIGHT TO STOP FLOW OF INFORMATION. they cant possibly own what we watch and when we watch it , people need to rise the fuck up and fight these retarded copy rights.

I agree with most of people that support streaming sites like Ninjavideo was, giving everyone the possibility to choose whatever they wanted to watch indeed, without any limitation of the area where they're living or time. TV shows that have been aired before or not available in ones own country, should be available online, and people should have the possibility to choose to watch a movie in a poor quality for free or to pay to watch a good quality release.
In my opinion it doesn't make much sense trying to stop the flowing of free media available all around the world, which is basically the heart of advertising.
Of course many people couldn't even afford to spend lots of money to watch certain shows, for those people sites like Ninjavideo are very helpful.
Then most likely, if somebody sees a video online and likes it, eventually these people are going to be willing to own an original copy with good quality sooner or later. That's what I actually do.
And I continue to go to theater whenever a movie attracts me anyway.
Ninjavideo gave people like me the possibility to have plenty of shows to choose from, even if they were aired long before. Also to get to know shows that couldn't ever been found otherwise in a regular broadcast.
It's a cultural phenomenon I think, not just simple piracy. Regulations are necessary of course, but people in charge should rethink all the limitations that there are at the moment.

bring snacks…. or skip the pop corn. That should trim a good portion of ur "$50" dating experience. Ur welcome.

This really sucks.. i always use Ninjavideo and love to read the forums and the comments. And i watched the entire seasons of LOSt from 1 to 6 because of Ninjavideo..pls comeback the gang of Phara and the rest..i missed u all Ninjavideo creators…your the best!

so who has a link to a new site like ninjavideo???

Unbelievable! No sooner had I found a page that was not only cool beyond any dumb-arse Hollywood monkey's imagination, but also provided us (we are many:) with stuff which we would never have been able to see otherwise (country thing: they don't show Weeds in places like Poland or 30Rock in places like Germany)… Phara and Co. – do come back and do it pronto! I'll pay, we will all pay. Just return and keep doing things the way you did. Very few people in this business know their stuff – you so do!

A good replacement is icefilms.info

cheers!

and you can't even spell bin laden right lol

Hey guys, I was abroad when Ninja got shut down…and I am very sad to hear about this as well. I don't always use ninja, but they certain have some of the best quality stuff of my favourite shows! As a child, I believed in the glorification and export of American Culture and American heroism. As I grew up and started studying social issues and become aware of the world issues, I realized that the biggest bully and terrorist in the world is the US Government. They bully everyone and every country in in the world and support those whose philosophy aligns with their own. They feign heroism and liberation and justice only when it serves them privately in huge dollar bills or power acquisition. They even go as far as to limit freedom of information and unbiased media to their own people so the American citizens are always in the dark or brainwashed to think that their government has their best interest at heart. So this is just one small thing that's being added to the list.

I was reading the ninjavideo blog and the compelling story of how the Mods' freedoms are actually in jeopardy and their homes were "kicked-in" by homeland security…it made me feel even worse. On the site, they have started asking for donations to help them fight this legal battle that will probably need a 7 digit number for them to even stand a chance. I don't want a legal precedence to be made over the gray area of the law so I like many will be donating as much as I can afford to as a student. Many of you seemed to have used ninja, and I don't know if you've read their blogs yet…but if you haven't, please take a look at this post. http://www.ninjavideoforum.net/viewtopic.php?id=3…
I hope you can contribute to fight for access and free information. At the very least, save the people who has dedicated themselves before bringing you hours of pleasure in the form of Ninja Video.
Cross your fingers!

I agree with what most of the people have said here. I used Ninja Video for the same reasons as most – to watch programmes that are not currently/ planned to be aired in the UK. As previously mentioned streaming sites such as NV were my only access to programmes that were never planned to be aired in the UK as on websites such as HBO or ABC I am always told "not available in your region".
As for films being streamed online, if I watch a film online that I enjoy I will then go and see it again in the cinema or go and buy it. I use internet movie sites as a vetting screen. If I like it I will pay for it if I dont I am pleased that I did not waste my hard earned money on crap. As someone wisely stated above me – internet movie sites are creating a generation that will not stand for poorly made and poorly produced drivel.

ninjavidio stopped me from going insane now i am going crazy

All the retards who are defending illegal sites can go fuck themselves. Just because CD/DVDS or what have you can be easily ripped the onus is on the the fuck who wants to watch 'x' content for his/her own pleasure for FREE or bootleg copyrighted footage. Those are ILLEGAL activities whatever spin you may invent to put on them – "oh, I want to see if the plot is as good as people are making out", "I want to check if the movie is good!" and the ever so common "It's only one film I've downloaded". You utter morons. It is both copyright infringement and profit capture.

Pete – "It's not our fault media now comes on discs which are ripped onto a computer so easily"
^
So that gives the God-given right to steal? Are you fucking retarded? Some of the people on this site, I swear, they need to be put down asap.

Sooooo has anyone set up a site similar?? I miss the T.V shows, they're not shown here or else subtitled..and my french misses the subtlities : ((

Try wheresmyshow.com
Its run by ex ninja uploaders Khaalida and Eclective out of Australia

GOVERNMENT STOPPED VIDEONINJA AN PEEKVID BUT MORE SITES WILL RISE YOU SHUT ONE DOWN FIVE MORE WILL APPEAR

To be honest a lot of the stuff on ninja was pretty poor quality, unlike icefilms where everything is DIVX quality and still free

dont you think the federal goverment has more important shit to worry about poor poor celebrites and artist they make to much goddamn money as it is