[TF]Three Arrested As Police Swoop on Rapidshare Link Forum

[Vation]

An Internet forum which provided links to movies and TV shows hosted on sites such as Rapidshare has been raided by police. Following an anti-piracy group investigation, three alleged operators of the 30,000 member site were arrested, two of which were teenagers. Searches were carried out on members in three other locations.

With 30,000 members Filmowisko was a prominent file-sharing forum. The site didn’t host any illicit material, but like many of its type, linked to movies, TV shows, music and other warez stored on hosting sites such as Rapidshare.

“Forum administrators are not responsible for content written by users. The files placed here by users are only for promotional purposes. After 24 hours you must delete all files downloaded from this forum,” said the disclaimer on the front page of the site before it disappeared.

further reading - source:
Three Arrested As Police Swoop on Rapidshare Link Forum | TorrentFreak

[SealLion]

not a very well written article from TF. It doesnt even state where, specifically which country this forum was hosted in.

Readers shouldn't have to go googling to find out. Info should be readily availble there.

[slikrapid]

not a very well written article from TF.

agreed

It doesnt even state where, specifically which country this forum was hosted in.

it does say it indirectly:

After lengthy questioning the 21 and 17 year-olds were released and now face copyright infringement charges which carry a maximum 5 year prison sentence in Poland.

[SealLion]

ok. I guess I read too quickly.


you know what I don't like about this article is that there were no interviews from anyone.
none.
It's almost a biased article, even if it is an article published on TF.
It gives no other info to it.
Just plain-jain reporting.
It leaves no info from any of the 'defendants' or even any statements made by them.
Quite poorly done.

anyways...look at this Bull$#! here:

Anti-piracy group FOTA, which awards the police with “Golden Plate” accolades for carrying out piracy crackdowns on their behalf, will undoubtedly be pleased with this result.

Oh, ya.... Of/c...kickbacks.
I 'm willing to bet that the only reason why the cops went over there is because of some close connections or something. Maybe somebody got paid under the table or something.

To give golden plate accolades is only meant to have the cops look good and godly.
Most of the time, they're over at the donut shop anyways.

[Instab]

indeed, smells like propaganda