[afnog] Fwd: [afgwg-discuss] 49 servers shut in Euro police raid on online piracy network

[Tracy Musaza]

De: Coko Tracy Musaza <cokotracy at gmail.com>
Objet: Fwd: [afgwg-discuss] 49 servers shut in Euro police raid on online piracy network
À: "tracy musaza" <cocko_mirindi at yahoo.fr>
Date: Vendredi 10 septembre 2010, 3h55

2010/9/9, Anne-Rachel Inné <annerachel at gmail.com>:
 http://www.expatica.com/be/news/local_news/49-servers-shut-in-euro-police-raid-on-online-piracy-network.html
 49 servers shut in Euro police raid on online piracy network

 Police shut down 49 servers and detained 10 people in a Europe-wide raid in
 13 countries against an online film pirating network, the Belgian
 prosecutor's office said Wednesday.

 The operation, organised after a two-year investigation by Belgian police,
 was aimed at "groups pirating films and TV series in Dutch or international
 productions sub-titled in that language."

 The raids on Tuesday night, coordinated by Belgian police and European
 authorities, hit Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Britain, Italy, Norway,
 Poland, Sweden, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Austria and Hungary, said
 spokesman Jean-Marc Meilleur.

 He said police searched 57 high-capacity servers managed by four big
 release, or distribution, groups that together account for 80 percent of all
 new Dutch films downloaded illegally.

 Losses incurred by the industry due to the illicit downloads are estimated
 at around 30 million euros a year in Belgium (38 million dollars) and six
 billion worldwide, the spokesman said.

 Police made 10 detentions in Belgium, Norway, Sweden and Poland. "They were
 the leaders of the four groups," Meilleur said.

 One of the biggest servers shut down and seized, which was found in Poland,
 had a capacity of 150-180 terabytes.

 The online pirates had also been using hospital or university servers on the
 sly, the spokesman said.

 In Sweden, police raided seven locations including one in a suburb of
 Stockholm containing servers used by file-sharing website The Pirate Bay and
 WikiLeaks, the whisteblowing website.

 Pinter said the raids had "nothing to do" with WikiLeaks, whose founder
 Julian Assange, faces rape allegations in Sweden.

 © 2010 AFP
Coko Tracy 


      
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