Major Piracy Bust Against Top Providers

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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Police raid at GVU-headquaters

[ga53n]

The interesting part ist, that according to Heise News http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/68760 (in German) the police raided the GVU offices in Hamburg. It is assumed that the GVU paid some people for administering warez-servers. Maybe they used it at a honey-pot, but is was illigeal participation, if it is true.

Dare I say?

[twitter]

Of course, with the Internet, all the other warez sites on the planet can easily fill the void left by the ones that were just shut down.

Dare I say that free content is making warez redundant, even second rate? Free software works better than commercial software. Free media, such as can be found at places like the internet archive or http://magnatune.com/">Magnatune is better than RIAA/MPAA crap. Give your money and mind share to those who deserve it!

Allow me to pimp the Radiators, one of the best jam bands to come out of New Orleans. There are hundreds of hours of their concerts available that you can share with your friends without charge or greed.

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[CaptSisko]

Because for the 'real' groups that are out there, it's not so much release itself that counts, but beating the rival groups to the punch.