Swedes Seize Pirate Mainframe Containing 16,000 Movies
Swedes Seize Pirate Mainframe Containing 16,000 Movies
Posted 03/09/2009 at 4:46pm
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Swedish cops seized a server containing 16,000 pirated movies in a raid they conducted last month. It is claimed that the server belonged to a file-sharing ring called Sunnydale and was being operated furtively at a location outside Stockholm from where it was seized.
Antpiratbyrån, a private copyright advocacy group, claims that the entire Sunnydale file-sharing ring, which consists of 10 servers, has been rendered ineffective due to the raid.
Anti-piracy lawyer Henrik Pontén even made a very lofty claim to underscore the importance of the raid. He said that the Sunnydale ring was the source of all illegal content on The Pirate Bay.
But The Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde refuted Pontén’s tall claim. "More than 800,000 people have uploaded to The Pirate Bay, so I don't believe it's the source of everything. But it is possible that it's a major source," he told Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.
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The Canadian
March 10, 2009 at 5:39am
A server, and connecting it to the Pirate Bay is such a long shot...everyone who uses BitTorrent and trackers are potential servers!
Russtynailz
March 09, 2009 at 7:24pm
go ahead can call bullshit. If you do it might tell you that it was not a Pirate Bay server, just a PIRATE server. (using the word PIRATE to refer to someone who steals copyrighted material)
sasquatch42
March 10, 2009 at 12:31pm
they aren't thieves technically, we can hate them like they are though
bloodyserb
March 09, 2009 at 7:08pm
PB servers don't host the movies themselves. If they got anything at all it was a server with 16,000 trackers on it, which you could carry on your keychain.
comptech08
March 09, 2009 at 6:43pm
ZOINKS thats a lot of hard disk space. Wonder what kinda raid they are using.
mps725
March 10, 2009 at 3:17am
Lawl, They are talking about the police raid not the raid config on the server. fail
ryan.monroe
March 09, 2009 at 5:02pm
Well, they did get one server from one topsite...out of that one topsites known ten, all of which is backed up anyway. But yeah, I bet piracy will be dead for good shortly!</sarcasm>
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