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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.

    This morning news is coming in which indicates that very significant raids against illicit file-sharing are taking place in locations across Europe.
    Police in up to 14 European countries are said to be involved in an operation, said to be in the planning for two years, targeting the Warez Scene, the network of individuals and servers at the top of the so-called ‘Piracy Pyramid’.
    Details are scarce at the moment, but it is believed that at the behest of Belgian authorities, raids have gone ahead in The Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Germany, Great Britain, Czech Republic, Hungary and Sweden.
    Not unusually, Sweden appears to have borne the brunt of the activity with a total of seven locations raided including Stockholm, Malmö, Umeå, Eskilstuna and Solna.
    Armed with IP addresses, this morning police officers turned up at the Solna premises of PRQ, the company that in part hosts WikiLeaks.There is no suggestion that the controversial whistle-blowing site is connected to the operation.
    “At 9:00 this morning, five policemen were here,” explained PRQ’s Mikael Viberg. “They were interested in who were using two IP addresses from 2009 and onwards. We have no records of our clients but we’re handing over the e-mail addresses for those behind the IPs. However, it’s rare that our clients have mail addresses that are traceable.”
    Spoiler This is a breaking news story and will be updated.:
    Update: Swedish Prosecutor Frederick Ingblad told Swedish news outlet Expressen.se, “I can confirm that [this operation] is not about Wikileaks.”

    Update 2: Thus far, four people are said to be being questioned on suspicion of breaching copyright law. Servers and computers have been seized in Sweden.

    Update 3olice raided the Umeå University.


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    Police in up to 14 European countries are said to be involved in an operation, said to be in the planning for two years, targeting the Warez Scene, the network of individuals and servers at the top of the so-called ‘Piracy Pyramid’.
    It’s a huge scene busts and will impact piracy for sure, almost all of the 27 ranked sites are down atm, with confirmation several have been busted, it’s really bad.


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    Seven locations including PRQ, which hosts WikiLeaks, have been raided.
    coincidence? don't think so (see comment 31 for additional info)

    “They were interested in who were using two IP addresses from 2009 and onwards. We have no records of our clients
    hint to others what to do

    looks like this action has been quite ineffective for a 2year long effort, they obviously have no objective internal control that would ban these amateurish attempts that do nothing significant except waste tax-payers money - and then you get political speeches about how they can't fix their foreign debt, tried saving some uselessly spent money yet?

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    Police have arrested 10 people in a series of raids across Europe designed to crack down on file-sharing.

    Police targeted 48 sites in countries including Britain, the Netherlands, Czech Republic and Hungary.

    Five of the arrests were in Belgium and the others were made in Norway and Sweden.

    The suspects are the alleged leaders of four illegal file-sharing networks and they have been charged with hacking, piracy and computer fraud.
    BBC News - European police in pirate raids
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