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130 Filesharer Homes Raided in Germany

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the paid-to-watch-an-ass dept.

Flo writes "Today, 130 homes have been raided in Germany under the allegation of filesharing. Law enforcement agencies had been monitoring an eDonkey-Server for two months. 3500 identified users are being investigated. Searches took place when users shared more than 500 files. Partners of the music industry helped identifying copyrighted material, but monitoring of the servers was solely done by law enforcement."

12 of 431 comments (clear)

  1. Easy to guess what's coming by Henry+V+.009 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I invoke Godwin. Thread closed.

    1. Re:Easy to guess what's coming by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Only a Nazi would say that.

    2. Re:Easy to guess what's coming by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 4, Funny

      Why do you have to be such a Godwin Nazi?

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  2. But... by The+MAZZTer · · Score: 2, Funny

    But noone mentioned the Nazis... aw shoot, I guess I just did. :/

    Thread closed, sorry folks.

  3. This actually happened to me a few weeks ago by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Last week I was sitting around, screwing around on fark.com, when there was a knock at the door. My mom awnsered it, and it was an individual claiming to be from the RIAA, along with two county sheriff's deputies. My mom (stupidly) let them in, and the deputies came into my room and proceeded to throw me to the ground while the RIAA guy started looking around on my computer. I demanded to see a warrant and informed them that they did not have permission to search my belongings, but they said that they didn't need one due to some new state law (I live in Missouri). Anyway, they eventually found my stash of MP3s and my mom got scared and said "you're moving with your auntie and your uncle to Bel-Air" I whistled for a cab and when it came near the licensplate said fresh and had a dice in the mirror. If anything I could say that this cab was rare, but I thought now forget it, yo home to Bel-Air! I pulled up to a house about seven or eight, and I yelled to the cabby yo, home smell you later. Looked at my kingdom I was finally there, to settle my throne as the prince of Bel-Air.

  4. Re:This confirms it. by jrockway · · Score: 4, Funny

    > NEWSFLASH: Sony and the RIAA are not law enforcement agencies.

    What country do you live in?

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  5. Re:er... by EtherC · · Score: 2, Funny

    Eigo igai no gengo wa dame da yo!
    ...are? (x_x)

  6. Re:firewall domestic/national peers? by RaNdOm+OuTpUt · · Score: 4, Funny

    [T]he RIAA...invaded the p2p networks and made available bad copies of mp3's. People would download them, and then realize it was 3 minutes of a screeching sound.
    No, they were perfectly good MP3s. That's what people call "music" now.

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  7. People, people this is a good thing.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    these are German filesharers, remember?

    Imagine how many illegal copies of David Hasselhoff "singing" were just taken out of circulation.

  8. Re:Honestly from the article ... by pintomp3 · · Score: 2, Funny

    the police force certainly is..

  9. But in Nazi Germany... by TrueXtremeIcon · · Score: 2, Funny

    In America People Share Files
    In Soviet Russia Files Share You
    But in Nazi Germany...wait...nevermind.

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  10. Verdammt! by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 3, Funny

    No wonder the sources for all those David Hasselhoff albums I've been trying to get suddenly vanished.

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