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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. T34|\/| \/\/4R3Z by Odiumjunkie · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When warez groups begin to realise the effects of publicity, maybe we'll start seeing scene releases without file.names.that.are.redundantly.long.and.tagged.wi th.the.Gr0uP_N4ME.rar and juvenile NFOs filled with ASCII art that looked outdated ten years ago.

    In groups that are dedicated to the free distribution of other people's content, why are they so keen to show that a release is "theirs"?