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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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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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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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. ...

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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The month of August — like, basically, every month for the past 10 years — has not been kind to the music industry.
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