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Big Swedish Filesharing Server Seized

Posted by timothy on from the trial-is-over-travails-continue dept.

SmugJerk writes "Authorities are continuing to apply pressure on Sweden's filesharing community amid the trial of several principals of The Pirate Bay filesharing site. Today they seized a fileserver containing about 65 terabytes of files, corresponding to around 16,000 full-length movies."

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  1. Not like The Pirate Bay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The filesharing server is giving out the content. The Pirate Bay does not.

    1. Re:Not like The Pirate Bay by Isotopian · · Score: 5, Informative

      What TPB was doing was NOT illegal under Swedish law. Note that they are not being prosecuted for any type of copyright violation, because .torrent files are not considered the same as the files they connect to in Sweden.

      You're right, they don't care. They shouldn't care. And I'll believe you when (assuming you live in the US since you can watch Hulu) you start allowing Swedish laws to take precedence over American laws in your day to day life.

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    2. Re:Not like The Pirate Bay by JRGhaddar · · Score: 3, Informative

      The artistic works are private believe it or not. They are available for public consumption but are still private.

      See this is where the line got blurred/skewed.

      You give your doctor your medical records

      Producers give a distributor their film to distribute.

      The doctor gives your medical records to a specialist with your permission to view it under the pretense that they don't replicate it and distribute it.

      Distributors give the producers work to a consumer under the pretense that they will not
      replicate and distribute it.

      The parallel is there.

  2. "Corresponding"? by Reality+Master+301 · · Score: 5, Informative

    There wasn't 16k movies, nor 65tb of files. The media exaggerates everything, the only thing they know is that the serverS (note the s) had a combined storage space of 65tb.

  3. Torrent Freak by Norsefire · · Score: 4, Informative

    According to the related article on TorrentFreak the server was a topsite used by numerous scene groups and Peter Sunde (aka Brokep of the The Pirate Bay) has said that "it is possible that it's a major source" for The Pirate Bay.

    1. Re:Torrent Freak by eulernet · · Score: 2, Informative

      You are wrong.
      Top warez sites are never connected to P2P networks.
      And you have to pay to access to such sites.

      Also, it seems that the site was a huge archive, since most of the warez sites only handle a couple of months of releases.

      BTW, shutting down a server won't change anything, since there are a lot of servers around the world, and they are not connected to each others.

  4. Re:Note the spin... by Reality+Master+301 · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's because "1 million dollars worth of cocaine" would be around 30 kilos at the current price.

  5. Re:Without having RTFA... by 91degrees · · Score: 3, Informative

    No.

    There's a concept of intent. If you do something to assist a crime, you're potentially an accessory. If you do something to prevent a crime you're helping the police.

    I really don't see any inconsistency here.

  6. Re:Stop spreading that false FUD by DELNI-AA · · Score: 2, Informative

    ... and further to that; Swedish police are unable to confirm that this took place at all...
    http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.216376/antipiratbyran-rekordtillslag-mot-svensk-piratserver ... and from the same source; servers in the ring where accessible by non-anonymous ftp.

    I agree; likely to be an imaginary event.

  7. Re:Without having RTFA... by Mirar · · Score: 5, Informative

    My 100Mbps (in reality 60Mbps down/20Mbps up) is baked into the rent whether I'd use it or not, so it's "free".

    A quick google reveals that several housings in Brandbergen (Haninge, Stockholm) - where the hit was made - have a similar deal. It's fairly common here. So it might not even cost anything to have bandwidth enough to fileshare on a large scale.

    Not that I know if "Scene" people actually fileshare on a large scale.

  8. Re:16,000 movies? by odie_q · · Score: 4, Informative

    IMDb lists 438,664 theatrically released movies.
    Source: IMDb statistics page

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  9. Re:Without having RTFA... by jedrek · · Score: 5, Informative

    65TB isn't 'fucking huge' in the world of the 'scene'. Take any movie that comes out, it goes through a couple release cycles. First you get the CAM, which is some dude in a theater with a video camera in his lap. So that's 700mb for the divx and 4gb for the DVD-R of that. Then the TC, another 4.7gb, R5 or DVDSCR: 4.7gb, retail rip: 4.7gb + 4gb for the PAL DVD-R. Then somebody releases a divx internal: 1.4gb and a dvd9: 9gb. Then it comes out on blu-ray and there's a 720p rip at 4gb and a 1080p rip at 9gb. That's almost 50gb for the full lifespan of a single movie release, not counting kids movies that often come out in language-specific versions.

    TV shows are huge too. Approx 10gb of new TV shows were released yesterday in xvid and x264. That's the major shows - you could easily double it counting Discovery Channel shows, British TV, etc. It's like that, day in, day out.

    Games and applications come in at 1-14gb/pop, including almost-monthly releases of windows xp, windows xp64, vista x86 and 64bit.

    And remember, this is all spread out over multiple servers, multiple copies, etc.

    The fact is that there is just an incredible amount of data out there being produced every single day.

  10. Re:Without having RTFA... by andereandre · · Score: 2, Informative

    there is lots of FTTH in Sweden. Don't know prices over there but here in Holland I pay 39.95 euro a month for 100/100 Mbps.

  11. Re:Without having RTFA... by Zironic · · Score: 2, Informative

    Since noone else seems to have explained this simple concept that's rather common in sweden it seems I'll have to do it.

    In Sweden access to 100mb unlimited bandwith(or well technically it's usually 60 down 20 up but it's still unlimited) is rather common. So what people do is that they go together 5-20 people and chip in for an FTP server and put it in one of the persons with a good connection's house.

    That way it's not horribly expensive for any of them but they all now got access to more file space then they should ever reasonably need, at this point they can contact "the scene" and offer their fileserver to them and in return they got access to all the new releases instantaneously since they're released on their server.

    There's no money to be had.

  12. Re:16,000 movies? by linuxgurugamer · · Score: 2, Informative

    Have you ever heard of Bollywood? They are the India version of Hollywood, and produce over 1000 movies a year.