p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- One wouldn’t normally think of the tiny Grand Duchy of Luxembourg as a hotbed of something or other calling for the attention of the cartels.

But, apparently, that’s not the case.

Webhoster Rott eSolutions (also known as root.lu, server.lu) has taken down quite a few popular warez and BitRorrent sites, Firebird77 over at Gulli.com in Germany, tells p2pnet.

And the police were once again acting for the corporate entertainment industry.

Root.lu firstly received a court order, and later a visit from the police who “offered them 2 options,” says Firebird77 »»»

Watch as the company’s 30 servers were seized, or

Shut down the sites

Root.lu, whose owners were given a week to make up their minds what they wanted to do, chose the latter option.

They contacted the admins at the various sites in question, but didn’t get any responses.

“It’s a heavy situation because  this has never happened before in Luxembourg before,” Firebird77 says.

Should users be worried?

“One of their staff posting on our board told us that as far as he knew,  no details about users were
given to the police.”

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Gulli.com – Diverse Warez- und Torrent-Sites offline, May 20, 2009