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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."

6 of 423 comments (clear)

  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.

      --

      It's poetry with a beat behind it! And guns! They're like beatniks with automatic weapons.

  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. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.