MPAA goes after Swedish ISP
p2pnet.net News:- Swedish police acting for America’s major movie studio cartel have raided the Stockholm offices of Bahnhof, Sweden’s largest ISP.
The cartel’s MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) is looking for dirt to use on sites it wants to shut down.
“U.S. copyright protection experts” [read the Big Seven movie studio cartel] have considered Bahnhof a, “haven for high-level Internet piracy for years,” says Reuters.
“This was a very big raid,” MPAA mouthpiece John Malcolm told Reuters.
“The material that was seized contained not only evidence of a piracy organization operating in Sweden but of online piracy organizations operating throughout all of Europe.”
Servers seized contained 1,800 digital movie files, 5,000 software application files and 450,000 digital audio files, says Reuters.
Pirate Bay
Having used other national police forces to close various European-based BitTorrent sites, the Big Seven movie studio cartel is hell-bent on adding The Pirate Bay to the list.
We’d heard the site was down but it was still online when we checked a little while ago.
(Thanks, Craig.)
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Reuters – Swedish Raid on ISP Called Major Blow to Piracy, March 11, 2005
March 14th, 2005 at 3:57 pm
if its actual piracy they are trying to stop… fine… but if they are calling file sharring piracy, damn them…
and Pirate Bay is not a piracy site… just a simple bit torrent site…. and the MPAA can’t touch them…
these raids are gonna get the MPAA in trouble…. XD
March 14th, 2005 at 6:59 pm
jon, i think it’s misleading to show the banner for pirate bay. they are a bittorrent index site with their own tracker. they do not provide any films or software, etc.
i’ve read about this raid on other news sites and i don’t recall pirate bay ever being mentioned as a customer of bahnhof, past or present. as i understand it, a customer (group/s) stored games, software and films on the isp server to be downloaded by their members. pirate bay does not do this.
please correct your story by removing the misleading pirate bay banner.
– catflap
March 14th, 2005 at 7:11 pm
You’re right.
I’ve replaced it with something a little more appropriate ; )
Cheers!
March 14th, 2005 at 7:17 pm
cool. i wouldn’t want you end up as a footnote on their notorious “legal threats” pages.
March 15th, 2005 at 8:19 am
Loads continue to grow on pirate bay faster than they can compensate for the increased bandwidth demand is my guess, but the page is always very slow to load and often times out.
I wouldn’t believe it’s down unless i received repeated dns errors for days.