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). "

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[Pig Hogger]

eople also have to stop downloading RIAA/MPAA stuff.

NO! We *** HAVE *** to download it, in order to show them that they are totally unnecessary. We *** HAVE *** to download it to kill them. Those leeches do nothing at all for the development of arts since they have become obsolete, so they should be driven out of the market. Large-scale piracy, so widespread that it will become as unenforcable as anti-jaywalking laws is the solution.

We *** HAVE *** to download it, in order to secure the future of the development of arts by killing out the leeches.