New details are emerging from the bust we reported yesterday. It turns out, a major Swedish university was involved in the crackdown. All this is emerging as scene notices are surfacing where it appears that finger-pointing has begun.
While sites like Wikileaks and ThePirateBay may or may not have been affected by the raids, we can shed some new light on our earlier report. It turns out that Umeå University, a major Swedish university was also caught up in the raids conducted by police. Police insisted that the raid had nothing to do with Wikileaks and had more to do with conducting an ant-piracy sweep.
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On the final day of the public consultation on Brazil’s copyright bill (English translation), all wakes of the legal, creative, civil society and industrial sectors were abuzz with activity. Among the last minute contributors was an impressive initiative of 28 academic, educational, consumer, musical and digital cultural organizations, joined in the Network for copyright law reform. In their “fifteen contributions for access to knowledge” they propose, among others, an exception for educational non-profit use and a term reduction from 70 to 50 years after the death of the author.
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The film industry is using pirate tactics to beat the pirates – by employing “cyber hitmen” to launch attacks that take out websites hosting illegal movies.
Girish Kumar, managing director of Aiplex Software, a firm in India, told this website that his company, which works for the film industry, was being hired - effectively as hitmen - to launch cyber attacks on sites hosting pirated movies that don't respond to copyright infringement notices sent to them by the film industry.
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Ten people have been arrested in raids across Europe against computer pirates who put illegal copies of movies and television series on the Internet, Belgian police said Wednesday. Five of the arrests were made in Belgium, where the computer crime unit led an operation on Tuesday that fanned out over 12 other nations, including Britain, Germany, France and Sweden, said police spokeswoman Tine Hollevoet.
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Yesterday, police in 14 countries around Europe coordinated in raids against so-called Warez Scene topsites. Sweden, The Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Germany, Great Britain, Czech Republic and Hungary all saw action. With the help of Scene insiders and other sources, today we try to piece together what happened, including which sites were hit and which ones got away.
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Police in up to 14 countries around Europe have coordinated to carry out raids against suspected file-sharing servers this morning. Locations in The Netherlands, Czech Republic and Hungary were targeted but Sweden appears to have borne the brunt of the action. Seven locations including PRQ, which hosts WikiLeaks, have been raided.
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Typical Web traffic is easy enough to spot: it uses TCP port 80. But plenty of protocols prefer to remain in the shadows and purposely make themselves difficult to identify—including Skype, BitTorrent, and eMule.
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Aging rocker complains that it’s “destroyed the music business” and that it’s “going to destroy the movie business” someday. Also contends that rock ‘n’ roll will be gone in a “few generations” time much like what happened to big-band music of the 1930s and ’40s.
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The Federal Trade Commission has closed its investigation into peer-to-peer site LimeWire, though the agency said it remained concerned about the security implications of users running legacy versions of the company's software.
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Just shortly after Stevie Nicks said that the Internet has destroyed rock, the founder of Elektra Records, an RIAA record label according to RIAA Radar, says that music has a bright future and the internet is not the enemy.
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New Zealand parliament approves of new file sharing pirate law that would impose a 6 month internet ban along with hefty fines. Copyright lobbyist aren't satisfied though, they want worse punishment.
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I've been trying to remember if Meg told me that his sister was a lawyer. I'm not sure, it was either lawyer or prostitute. I can't remember exactly but
Re: Last one to post wins the internets
Can't blame the confusion - they're almost the same thing - but prostitutes are cheaper and will stop fucking you after you're dead.
anon Yesterday, 05:20 PM