Swedish, Belgian cops target The Scene
p2pnet view Freedom | Movies:- Acting on “information from Belgian police in an international operation targeting the filesharing network known as ‘The Scene’,” Swedish police, working for Hollywood’s MPAA, yesterday raided locations across the country.
“The raid targeted homes in Eskilstuna in eastern Sweden, and in Eslöv and Malmö in the south”, says The Local, continuing, “Police also hit two internet service providers in Solna near Stockholm, and at Umeå University in the north of Sweden.”
The raids were “part of a coordinated action in 14 European countries and were carried out on request of the Belgian police, according to a statement from the Swedish public prosecution office”, says The Local, going on >>>
The investigation has been ongoing for over two years and concerns suspicions regarding the illegal filesharing of films within a network which goes by the name of “The Scene”.
“The Scene” is an international network constructed in several layers.
At the top of the group are those who compete to obtain copyrighted material and publish it on the internet. The group has a leader and everyone knows each other through internet aliases. The one who shares the film is known as the supplier, who receives remuneration in cash or in “credz” – points in an internal hit list.
In the next layer of the network is found the “topsites”. These are data severs, often at IT firms, where the material is held and spread through other networks. The Swedish part of the investigation is focused on these “topsites”.
“It is difficult to say how many films this concerns, it is possibly in the thousands”, the story has Fredrik Ingblad, whose allegiance isn’t identified, declaring. “The seizures in Sweden were done to find the servers.”
The “crime” the Swedes “are suspected of” will “probably be investigated by Belgian authorities.”, says the post, with Ingblad adding:
“The seized material will probably be transferred to Belgium for investigation there. We will then have to see what comes out of that, crimes could also have been committed in Sweden.”
The Hollywood-inspired ‘operation’ will have cost local taxpayers millions, and diverted scarce police resources from areas of genuine concern.
Expect to see this trumpeted by Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industry) as a “victory”.
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The Local – Swedish police raid filesharing ’scene’, September 7, 2010
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September 7th, 2010 at 5:13 pm
Anyone know if the MediaFire servers were effected during the raid?
September 7th, 2010 at 7:00 pm
“The one who shares the film is known as the supplier, who receives remuneration in cash or in “credz” – points in an internal hit list.”
This is such a lie! It is like when they pretended that the operators of TBP where making money!
Do these idiots understand the danger of discrediting the justice system?
September 7th, 2010 at 9:14 pm
The Byrate Pay?
TPB was only down for the usual very short time, and its tracker stayed up.
September 7th, 2010 at 10:16 pm
“TPB was only down for the usual very short time, and its tracker stayed up.”
The Pirate Bay no longer has trackers since a while. They have been replaced by the decentralized magnet link.