p2pnet - rss feed: German cops bust BT network
p2pnet.net news:- German police spent months scouring virtually the whole of Germany looking for an illegal BitTorrent p2p network.
Their investigations, “concentrated on a 38-year-old suspect from Oberboihingen (in the district of Esslingen in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg), who in the past had already come to the attention of the authorities,” says Heise Online.
The suspect is, “strongly suspected of having illegally distributed copyright protected movies and computer games via the Internet,” says the story, continuing.
The investigation was launched as early as March 2007, after the German Federation against Copyright Theft [GVU, read Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG] had informed the authorities of the fact that a certain computer game had been made available on the Internet prior to its official market launch. Thereupon the police in Esslingen and the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Stuttgart had begun investigations that finally led to the suspect in question. On Tuesday, May 22 in addition to the raid on the suspect’s home in Oberboihingen, raids of sites in the federal states of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia took place.
Quoting Der Teckbote, “a group of persons of whom the suspect was the most prominent member had run a BitTorrent network on a number of rented computers with appropriate storage and upload capacities through which copyright protected movies and computer games were illegally distributed,” says Heise Online, adding:
“The very least the suspects can expect is to be charged with violation of copyright – civil lawsuits for damages filed by copyright holders could well be additional consequences the suspects might face.”
Also See:
Heise Online - Illegal P2P network raided, May 29, 2007
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