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European Piracy Crackdowns
DigitumDei writes "The British
Phonographic Industry has been busy over the last half year. Their recent success which netted them £50,000 in out of court settlements is certainly not going to be the end of it with the UK courts forcing 6 ISP's to release information on a further 31 file sharers. The ISPs have 14 days to comply. And once located will be offered the opporunity to settle out of court. 'We would particularly advise parents to check what their children are doing on the internet and make sure that they are not breaking the law by filesharing illegally,' said Geoff Taylor, BPI General Counsel." And in other news, the oldest and largest ISP in Sweden, Bahnnof was the subject of a raid that netted what looks to be the biggest results in Europe ever; as well papper writes "The Swedish organization Antipiratbyrån, which has nothing to do with Swedish goverment, recently got hacked. This was both revenge for and an attempt to stop similair raids like the one who took place this friday, against the ISP Banhof. During the raid several FTP-servers were seized. On the hacked site the responsible group, AUH, posts some private e-mails about an alleged informer and makes threats to release more information and of course there is the mandatory braging. The site is located at Antripiratbyran with a mirror elsewhere and a translated verison also online (although it seems unreachable at the moment). "
Crazy kids! Downloading Phonographs!
Is there much of a British Pornographic Industry?
Did anyone else read that wrong?
The first paragraph or so of the hacked version of their site, as translated by InterTran. Either InterTran leaves something to be desired as a translation tool, or the hackers who hit the site leave something to be desired as far as proficiency in the swedish language goes. You decide:
Hi and greet to AUHs nya home in cyberrymden! We have displaced in here behind they precedence proprietor stayed outcast frn Internet liked a body as braces away kill and unwanted organ. We have as it were yourself wondered very about what as actually happened with Bahnhof and as wes is , formerly youngest , almighty arga s feels wes ourselves exhort that divide that information but s mnga as possible. All for that yous also ska kunna become arga , and that eras friends ska become arga and their friends and s forth until Internet gator is full by an mad mob as sound AUH! AUH! AUH! and am claiming Ponténs blood!
Specialization is for insects. -Heinlein
"although it seems unreachable at the moment"
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After being posted on
Never!
Warning, comments may not have been passed by the sanity department of my brain.
Give us the dubloons and the mp3's and nobody gets hurt! Arr!
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
Hmmm... with a big enough USB drive and a p2p program that needs no install and downloads in small chunks, easy resumable...
I could see that working. Of course, I'm too lazy to go through all that trouble, so I just set up an unprotected WiFi, purge all connection logs regularly, and claim I have no idea who downloaded the whatever it was thats on my heavily encrypted wireless external harddrive hidden where No Man Would Want To Go... (under the GF's tampax)
*cough* well thats what I could do, theoretically, if I was ethically challenged and did not believe in "intellectual property" and other fairytales.
PS. You are mental.