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Major Piracy Bust Against Top Providers

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the it-wasn't-me-it-was-the-one-armed-man dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It appears the German copyright authority has launched a massive offensive against top warez providers. According to Slyck, GVU (the German version of the RIAA/MPAA) coordinated a wide spread effort that included the seizure of 20 servers and 30 arrests in 5 countries - Germany, Austria, Holland, Poland and the Czech Republic."

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  1. so much for obscurity by 2TecTom · · Score: 2, Funny

    thankfully, this type of tyranny will only result in better anonymity

    if software was reasonably priced, there would be very little piracy

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  2. Remember kids! by beacher · · Score: 4, Funny
    Don't copy that floppy!

    -B

  3. Re:Like, duh by Xemu · · Score: 4, Funny

    in the days of 8" floppy disks there was hardly any piracy

    I think you're on to something.

    8" floppy disk: hardly any piracy
    5.25" floppy disks: some piracy
    3.25" floppy: lots of piracy

    Similarly,
    LP: hardly any music copying
    tapes: some piracy
    CD: lots of piracy

    and it holds true for video too!
    laserdisk: no piracy
    vhs tape: some piracy
    dvd: lots of piracy

    Clearly, the smaller the media becomes, the more copies are made. The MPAA should make a note of this and make pizza-sided Blu-Ray media.

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