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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. Like, duh by Dekortage · · Score: 4, Insightful

    From the article: Initially, these raids may place a damper on spread of pirated material, however the allure of public recognition is simply too great for many to avoid. With time, their role in the online warez community will most likely be replaced.

    This is news? It's been like this since way, way, way before the World Wide Web was invented. (Yes, children, there was software piracy back in the days of 5.25" floppy disks.)

    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.

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    1. Re:Like, duh by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 4, Insightful

      (Yes, children, there was software piracy back in the days of 5.25" floppy disks.)

      However, even further back, in the days of 8" floppy disks there was hardly any piracy because it was mostly all Free Software to begin with.

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  2. Nice try by the-amazing-blob · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This time, they went for the big boys. Straight for the top. Too bad the ranks will just fill back up within a month.