Big Swedish Filesharing Server Seized

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Big Swedish Filesharing Server Seized

Posted by timothy on Saturday March 7, 2009 @09:48PM 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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Note the spin... by Anonymous Coward · 2009-03-07 21:54 · Score: 5, Insightful

...major crackdown...
...one of the biggest pirate server confiscations ever ...
...international pirate network...
The same spin doctors that run the drug war are now being employed in the Imaginary Property war.
BTW. Despite the word association games the article plays, there is no comparison between a server containing 65TB of files and Pirate Bay, as Pirate Bay doesn't contain any copyrighted information that isn't supposed to be there.
1. Re:Note the spin... by Renderer+of+Evil · 2009-03-07 22:02 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  The same spin doctors that run the drug war are now being employed in the Imaginary Property war.
  Pretty much. Law enforcement always does this by putting the drugs in dollar figures. "1 million dollars worth of cocaine" sounds much more impressive than 2 kilos of powder.
2. Re:Note the spin... by Reality+Master+301 · 2009-03-07 22:20 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  That's because "1 million dollars worth of cocaine" would be around 30 kilos at the current price.
3. Re:Note the spin... by Jafafa+Hots · 2009-03-07 22:22 · Score: 5, Interesting
  
  Not to mention the fact that they insinuate that 65tb of files are illegal files, when they could be just about anything. I seem to remember hearing about a case of some guy busted for child porn or something like that and they announced on the news that they had confiscated "hundreds of video cassettes," and showed them on a table in the press conference. It later turned out that they were all like rental videos and crap, and the cops knew it, but were using that as a cudgel to poison public opinion and get the guy to cop a plea.
  
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4. Re:Note the spin... by Soulshift · 2009-03-07 22:35 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Bah, 65TB? Wait till they discover what's in /dev/rand! I wish the cryptanalysts good luck!
  
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5. Re:Note the spin... by troll8901 · 2009-03-07 22:45 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  The same spin doctors that run the drug war are now being employed in the Imaginary Property war.
  "Mister Threepwood, it is MY experience that there are only two kinds of pirates: Those who are committing acts of wanton savagery, and those PLANNING to commit acts of wanton savagery!"
  - Admiral Ricardo Luigi Pierre M'Benga Chang Nehru O'Hara Casaba the Third, Monkey Island 4.
6. Re:Note the spin... by Anonymous Coward · 2009-03-07 23:06 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Not in police fantasy accounting, where the value of that 2 kilos is determined by how much could be got by splitting it in to 1/10 gram rocks and selling them at the highest street price of ~$25, which would mean 4 kilos would be worth 1 million dollars. I'm not kidding.
7. Re:Note the spin... by Pax681 · 2009-03-08 00:09 · Score: 5, Interesting
  
  the police here in the UK do the exact same. they value cannabis resin by saying it costs Â£5 GBP per gram when in fact an ounce(28 grams) will cost you Â£30-50 GBP. it's a bullshit PR based accounting system based on prices from yesteryear and not based in modern reality.
8. Re:Note the spin... by PopeRatzo · 2009-03-08 01:05 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Yes,
  "The street value of the movies seized in this raid was estimated at 800 trillion dollars. According to the RIAA, for every movie shared on The Pirate Bay, seven film studio executives commit suicide, and twenty-three copyright lawyers buy Jaguars."
  Can we get pictures of the brave Swedish Authorities who conducted this dangerous pre-dawn raid?
  
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9. Re:Note the spin... by TheRaven64 · 2009-03-08 03:42 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  i have been smoking for 20 years and manage to keep my job, keep my family in going at a very decent standard
  Although, apparently, the tar has leaked into your keyboard and broken your shift key.
  
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10. Re:Note the spin... by CarpetShark · 2009-03-08 05:17 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  1 million dollars worth of cocaine would be around 30 kilos
  But is it cheaper than printer ink?
Not like The Pirate Bay by Anonymous Coward · 2009-03-07 21:56 · Score: 5, Informative

The filesharing server is giving out the content. The Pirate Bay does not.
1. Re:Not like The Pirate Bay by Laglorden · 2009-03-07 23:23 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  So, you think people should be convicted for opening a door? or maybe just installing a door?
  If there wasn't a door the bank robber couldn't get away! or in for that matter.
  We can't convict people for setting up a web-site or hosting torrentfiles (linking to illegal AND legal content). The persons hosting TPB are not the one committing the crime.
  It would be more like convicting someone who owns the paper where an advert for the door above (which was used in the bank-robbery). Insane.
2. Re:Not like The Pirate Bay by JRGhaddar · 2009-03-08 00:11 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  I'm not against information exchange.
  Information:
  1. knowledge communicated or received concerning a particular fact or circumstance; news: information concerning a crime.
  2. knowledge gained through study, communication, research, instruction, etc.; factual data: His wealth of general information is amazing.
  3. the act or fact of informing.
  Keyword is knowledge. I don't ever want to limit your knowledge or understanding of the world.
  Creative works are different.
  This is something someone has created in hopes that others will enjoy it and at the artists discretion would like to be compensated for that enjoyment.
3. Re:Not like The Pirate Bay by Jurily · 2009-03-08 00:14 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  But the act of aiding and enabling those who commit a crime to do so does make them liable.
  As far as I know, copyright infringement is not a crime yet in any country.
4. Re:Not like The Pirate Bay by tylerni7 · 2009-03-08 00:15 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  I think your door analog doesn't really work. It's not like the administrators of TPB go through every single torrent, "opening the door" for each of them.
  It's more like they installed an automatic door opener, even though they knew some people would use that to escape the bank after robbing it. I mean, the Pirate Bay founders are nice guys I'm sure, but they aren't going to hold the door open for millions of people, it's far easier to remove human involvement from the process.
5. Re:Not like The Pirate Bay by moxley · 2009-03-08 00:32 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  A "torrent distribution license?"
  Are you fucking kidding me?
  Fuck that, I don't want the state anymore in my life then it already is.
  You're basically advocating censorship with that approach; that is exactly how it would be used.
  In addition to being disgusting from a pro liberty standpoint, that sort of centralized control is antithetic to the entire point of the technology.
6. Re:Not like The Pirate Bay by JRGhaddar · 2009-03-08 00:54 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Yes they are aware the robbery is happening. They always post there responses (which I think are funny btw) to letters addressing them them about these problems.
  They know it is going on. It has been brought to their attention. They permit it to go on.
  They are involved in the transaction to some extent.
  I never said file sharing is robbery.
  Taking a creative work. Ripping it or recording it and distributing it to others without the permission of the creator is.
  and everyone should do what they can to protect the creative works and the artists.
7. Re:Not like The Pirate Bay by nloop · 2009-03-08 00:59 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Can we get beyond the "If filesharing continues media will die!" arguement? It is wrong on so many fronts.
  
  First of all, it's done. Filesharing is here to stay. There is no better example of wack-a-mole. You get rid of Napster, Kazaa, and Suprnova, but there are still more networks than I care to type that are healthy. It is -not- going away through litigation. Period. Sorry RIAA.
  
  Despite this fact the music industry is still alive! 10 years since Napster and I haven't seen any Atlantic executive begging for change on a street corner! The members of Metallica still own mansions! Go figure! Your apocalyptic claims are simply unfounded.
  
  Even if by some miracle every brick and mortar record/movie store ceased to exist, art still would exist. Are you familiar with the concept of an art college? I live in a city with a major one. The running joke is "I went to smart school, not art school" because you will not make money with a degree in fine arts. Sure, you can show your stuff at a gallery, someone may buy a few paintings, but you will also work in a coffee shop or some other lousy day job. Oddly enough, it doesn't deter people! People enjoy making art! Films would still exist. I think they may actually be better without someone who's sole concern is money overseeing their production. Example: I think Ze Frank's year long show was superior to The Daily Show at it's own game of leftist political comedy. No money involved. Good thing no one told him his fish was dead.
8. Re:Not like The Pirate Bay by JRGhaddar · 2009-03-08 01:12 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  Art is eternal, but the means for Artists to make money is evaporating.
  As you stated Art school people make less. They do have to take jobs unrelated to there passion. Why is that?
  Because unfortunately there are very few ways for artists to make a decent living wage.
  So why take away from the industry that helps artists make money?
  Yes some people are still doing well, but there is a whole new generation that are still trying to figure out if it's even worth it at all to pursue.
9. Re:Not like The Pirate Bay by drsmithy · 2009-03-08 01:17 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  Are you liable?
  No.
  ... well who really is at fault. The gunmen?
  Yes.
  Same goes with them. The moment they create the site allowed indexing and a search bar they became personally responsible.
  So Google is "personally responsible" for everything it indexes ?
10. Re:Not like The Pirate Bay by hkmwbz · 2009-03-08 02:21 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  The line begins with personal responsibility, and the line begins when they created a site made it index search able.
  
  At that moment they became personally responsible for the acts others would be using there website for.
  Yeah, just like Google is responsible for the content of the sites in their search index.
  
  The ISP's also bare a responsibility believe it or not, and most ISP's if I am not mistaken will hand over records if a warrant is issued.
  And TPB wouldn't? How could they refuse to do so, exactly? Have they been above the law? Untouchable by the police?
  You are an industry shill, aren't you? I recognize those irrelevant, braindead arguments...
  
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11. Re:Not like The Pirate Bay by miletus · 2009-03-08 02:52 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Just think, if it weren't for capitalism and intellectual property rights, there'd be no Homer, no Sophocles, no Aristotle, no Confucius, no Buddha, no Leonardo, no Jesus, .... Oddly, it appears that humans are good at making culture without payment and property rights.
12. Re:Not like The Pirate Bay by st0rmshad0w · 2009-03-08 03:08 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  I went to art school. I have made and sold artworks. You are so ignorant of reality it isn't funny.
  
  Art is eternal, but the means for Artists to make money is evaporating.
  No it isn't. If making money is their only concern then there are many other ways to do it, including commercial artist jobs.
  
  As you stated Art school people make less. They do have to take jobs unrelated to there passion. Why is that?
  So does pretty much everyone else, why is that? Also, how come you seem to be measuring a person's achievements by how much money they make? How vile is that?
  
  Because unfortunately there are very few ways for artists to make a decent living wage.
  Bullshit. Be good at what you do. Pursue whatever work you need to to pay the bills and continue with your artistic pursuits. And here's a hint for you, there are an aweful lot of non-artists who make shittier wages than the artists, most of the artists have at least some college under their belt. Artists used to have patrons, if all they wanted to do was artwork they found one.
  
  So why take away from the industry that helps artists make money?
  The only industry that helps artists make money is the one that manufactures the supplies they use. You severely misspelled "profits like a leech off an artist's hard work with no concern or care for the creations involved"
  
  Yes some people are still doing well, but there is a whole new generation that are still trying to figure out if it's even worth it at all to pursue.
  How is this different for ANYTHING else at any time? I'm sure at some point there were people wondering if it was worth it to go into buggywhip making, or take over the family ranch, or thousands of other professions that have waned throughout history. Try finding someone who hand-carves decorative stonework sometime, there used to be hundreds of them in any city.
13. Re:Not like The Pirate Bay by moortak · 2009-03-08 03:28 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Do you believe that they should respond to takedown notices from a legal system that they are not part of? The DMCA isn't worldwide.
  
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14. Re:Not like The Pirate Bay by Isotopian · 2009-03-08 03:50 · 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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15. Re:Not like The Pirate Bay by JRGhaddar · 2009-03-08 04:31 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Yeah I think they are taking the right steps.
  Hopefully a solution will be found that is fair for everyone. It just is hard to see people download and distribute content that they don't have permission to do so and believe it is their right to do so.
  That is actually scarier than most people on here realize.
  When medical records go digital who's to say our medical records aren't fair game for distribution. I mean it's just files. It's just digital copies.
  I do worry about future generations also.
16. Re:Not like The Pirate Bay by Kagura · 2009-03-08 05:00 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  Aka, sure, the Nazis were bad, but logically there should be some middle ground.
  You are really off base, and I'm not going to be nice about it. JRGhaddar's main point was that if people cannot be compensated for the time and resources put into producing music, software, movies, etc. then there will be a drastic decline in their production and quality.
  
  This has nothing to do with Jews being genocidally exterminated by the Nazis. When muuh-gnu (your great-great-great grandparent) brought up the subject of Nazis, it was to provide a thoughtful point against somebody who said, in general, not to mod down an idea just because you didn't agree with it. He never tried to equate copyright protections with Nazi Germany.
  
  I doubt anybody would argue that we would have the same amazing creative projects* undertaken if everybody had to do them for almost free. That's a silly argument to make, and your parent says it is silly, too.
  
  * This is not a chance to tell us what you think about the quality of today's music, movies, etc. Please stay on topic. ;)
17. Re:Not like The Pirate Bay by Pharmboy · 2009-03-08 05:21 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  Let's say you are a gun seller, and you have so many people that want to buy guns from you that you have no time to do a background check on all of them.
  Speaking as someone who had a valid federal firearms dealer license for many, many years, I can promise everyone that you have no clue what you are talking about. If you sell a gun without submitting for the background check, you lose your license, period. The gun dealer doesn't do the background check, the BATF does, along with assistance from local police. (Long guns require a quick check, 1 to 24 hours, hand guns require the waiting period and a permit) This isn't new, this passed as the Brady Bill many years ago. You can't even sell personally owned guns that you had in your posession before you were licensed to someone.
  Getting the license takes many months, a lot of fees, a background check by the FBI and being fingerprinted. Most dealers are not stupid enough to risk their license because "business is good".
  And if you did sell a gun to someone without a permit, then they used it in a crime, then yes, you are liable (both in criminal and civil courts) and can spend time in prison, rightfully so.
  
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18. Re:Not like The Pirate Bay by GameboyRMH · 2009-03-08 09:21 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  If someone makes your medical records publically available, is your first thought going to be "Oh no, now my files are going to be spread everywhere by those dastardly file sharers because they don't respect my private files" or is it going to be "WHY THE FUCK ARE MY MEDICAL RECORDS PUBLICALLY AVAILABLE!?!?"
  Maybe you see medical records as being equivalent to MP3s, since they're both files...but medical records contain private information trusted in the hands of professionals, where they should remain encrypted with strictly controlled access, while MP3s contain audio that's regularly streamed over the radio and blasted out of boomboxes, sold to even the most irresponsible kid for pocket change. Definitely not private and with practically zero access control.
  Your comparison is mind-bogglingly asinine.
  
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19. Re:Not like The Pirate Bay by rtfa-troll · 2009-03-08 09:21 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  I like your analogy; however, it needs to be extended a bit. The bank (RIAA) has built their vault (secure media) in the middle of your home (computer), however, they refuse to pay rent; in fact they even charge you (DVD license fees) for the irritation of having their vault taking up space (cycles) in your home.
  They left a big hole in their vault (the analogue hole; various other holes) and now you are responsible for posting guards on that hole (make sure you don't file share their files). If you don't, then the police will come and get you (no analogy needed).
  
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20. Re:Not like The Pirate Bay by JRGhaddar · 2009-03-08 11:04 · 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.
Without having RTFA... by Kokuyo · 2009-03-07 21:56 · Score: 4, Insightful

...and just assuming the summary isn't stupid, I'd say this was a good thing. 65 TB of files is... fucking huge.
THIS is what I understand when someone talks about piracy; a few individuals who move about large quantities of media content.
Now the big question would be whether they made money that way, which I assume they did. After all, how do you pay for a 65TB server with corresponding bandwidth?
1. Re:Without having RTFA... by Anonymous Coward · 2009-03-07 22:03 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  After all, how do you pay for a 65TB server with corresponding bandwidth?
  How much is the "corresponding" bandwidth? Not sure what you mean by that phrase. I could afford a 65TB server without any difficulty. I don't need one, but we're not talking about something astonishing here. Less than I'm about to spend on roof repairs *grumble*
2. Re:Without having RTFA... by 91degrees · 2009-03-07 22:20 · 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.
3. Re:Without having RTFA... by Splab · 2009-03-07 22:25 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Why do you assume that just because you pay extortion like prices for internet where ever you are in the world that everyone else does the same? This is in Sweden, so he most likely has access to 100mbit connection for around $50 a month (if that pricey) with a truly unlimited plan.
  Also 65TB while expensive, isn't that hard to build these days, usually you would do so by picking up server hardware from business going under and just fill them with cheap(er) hardware.
4. Re:Without having RTFA... by Teun · 2009-03-07 22:33 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  But... 65TB... Assuming you watch 8 hours of movies per day, that would still add up to about 8 years of watching. Why could anyone possibly want that?
  I've never heard a stamp collector writes more letters or postcards than average.
  Surely many of us have seen how people do things because they can.
  
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5. Re:Without having RTFA... by Mirar · 2009-03-07 23:35 · 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.
6. Re:Without having RTFA... by jedrek · 2009-03-07 23:46 · 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.
7. Re:Without having RTFA... by morie · 2009-03-07 23:55 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  New defence for the Pirate Bay: We are only helping the police. We hyperlink in an effort to prevent a crime by pointing out those servers
  
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8. Re:Without having RTFA... by dargaud · 2009-03-08 03:09 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  I've never heard a stamp collector writes more letters or postcards than average.
  Sorry to pour cold water on your analogy, but they do. I worked in Antarctica where we have special and unique stamps. Collectors would send us packages full of envelopes to send back so they'd get the stamps and nice stamps on them. During the winterover (9 months with no outside communication, locked out by the ice), there was a full-time mailman who was there just to stamp the shitload of envelopes sent by those guys. It did pay one fifth of the cost of hiring the ship to go there in the first place !!! The nicest of those guys would put some gifts in their packages (like a bottle of wine).
  
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"Corresponding"? by Reality+Master+301 · 2009-03-07 21:57 · 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.
1. Re:"Corresponding"? by gowen · 2009-03-07 22:16 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  The media exaggerates everything,
  
  Even if the statement is not true (and you offer no actual evidence it isn't), this exaggeration comes from Antpiratbyrån, not from the media.
  
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2. Re:"Corresponding"? by Jafafa+Hots · 2009-03-07 22:25 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  "and you offer no actual evidence it isn't"
  I didn't think that's how these things were supposed to work.
  
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3. Re:"Corresponding"? by Anonymous Coward · 2009-03-07 22:26 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  this exaggeration comes from AntpiratbyrÃ¥n, not from the media.
  Maybe, but when the article contains such gems as 'the server is part of an international pirate network called "The Scene,"', you have to conclude that the reporter isn't exactly familiar with the field he's writing about and probably barely understood a word of what was being said to him.
4. Re:"Corresponding"? by gowen · 2009-03-07 22:49 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  You're right. Internet discussion boards are rarely improved by the injection of factual evidence.
  
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5. Re:"Corresponding"? by gowen · 2009-03-07 22:52 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Right. His level of technical knowledge is another reason why he's not exaggerating the figures himself -- he's just mindlessly regurgitating what the Swedish Anti-Piracy guy told him.
  
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6. Re:"Corresponding"? by 91degrees · 2009-03-07 22:54 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  [citation needed]
  
  I'm going to internet meme hell for this comment aren't I?
65 terabytes hey? by alienunknown · 2009-03-07 21:59 · Score: 5, Funny

Some members of this site may be concerned with how many libraries of congress this 65 terabytes can hold. I'm more concerned with how much of the 65 terabytes is porn.
If 65 terabytes of porn has just been removed from the net it could very well be the largest tragedy that the internets have ever encountered. Just thinking of such a tragedy brings a tear to my eye.
Backup server, anyone?
1. Re:65 terabytes hey? by mwvdlee · 2009-03-07 23:18 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  65TB of porn, that would amount to a massive 0,2 promille of all the internet porn. Morn this godforsaken day!
  
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Just like the Intrepid! by pallmall1 · 2009-03-07 22:01 · Score: 4, Funny

Today they seized a fileserver containing about 65 terabytes of files...
Gee, I guess that's why the one seeder of the torrent file I was downloading went offline. Strange, I shuddered with pain when it happened, like 65 terabytes crying out in astonishement as the server died.

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Torrent Freak by Norsefire · 2009-03-07 22:04 · 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.
65 TB?!?! *gasp* by vigmeister · 2009-03-07 22:14 · Score: 4, Insightful

Today they seized a fileserver containing about 65 terabytes of files, corresponding to around 16,000 full-length movies
65 terabytes of files? Storage space of that magnitude is unfathomable! How many full length movies would that be? 16000 you say? That is still too large for me to process. If I wrote down all the files in 1s and 0s, how many football fields would that occupy?
Every slashdot user can divide 65 TB by the size of a DVD. Unfortunately, full-length movies are NOT a standard measure of storage space. Least of all on slashdot in the context of file-sharing.
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1. Re:65 TB?!?! *gasp* by tpgp · 2009-03-07 22:35 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  If I wrote down all the files in 1s and 0s, how many football fields would that occupy?
  Depends on the font size.
  
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2. Re:65 TB?!?! *gasp* by julian67 · 2009-03-07 22:44 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  For UK readers 65TB of files is the equivalent to an area half the size of Wales, 10 Wembleys, 3 Home Office Detention Centres or 12 double decker buses!!!
16,000 movies? by Arancaytar · 2009-03-07 22:15 · Score: 4, Funny

That's very amazing. Movie technology has existed how long now? If we're very generous and round it up to 100 years, then the world must have produced 160 movies per year, or nearly one every two days, for there to be that many.
Gosh, the box office has been busy, hasn't it.
1. Re:16,000 movies? by Teun · 2009-03-07 22:39 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  6-10 inches.
  
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2. Re:16,000 movies? by odie_q · 2009-03-07 23:37 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  IMDb lists 438,664 theatrically released movies.
  Source: IMDb statistics page
  
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An international pirate network called 'The Scene' by D4C5CE · 2009-03-07 22:18 · Score: 5, Funny

the server is part of an international pirate network called "The Scene,"
What a well-organized network that must be to have such unmistakably identifiable persons (some even being computers!) among its membership under this absolutely new and unique trademark name. ;-)
Now where are the ships and home port of their evil "pirate" fleet?
65 terabytes? by philipmather · 2009-03-07 22:50 · Score: 5, Funny

65 terabytes? Shirley you don't need a full install of Vista just for a file server?
Come on... the "Libraries of Congress" gag has been done so it only left me with the "in Soviet Russia" line, "...profit" or generic Microsoft bashing. ;^P

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Stop spreading that false FUD by meist3r · 2009-03-07 22:56 · Score: 5, Insightful

Jeez, does anyone ever check their sources? MSNBC of all things? You know what the MS stands for do you?

Other than that:

There was not ONE server with 65TB but a "ring" of servers with "suspected" 65TB overall data. Police took down exactly one single server. All the other servers were shut down by the people running them so they could not be traced further.

[ENG] http://torrentfreak.com/large-pirate-topsite-raided-in-sweden-090306/
[SWE] http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article4582094.ab
[ENG] http://www.thelocal.se/18050/20090306/
Just the fact that they dub that "the biggest raid ever" is such a hilarious demonstration of how much they don't know.

"Ponten said the server ring had collapsed as a direct result of the raid." hahahaha
Did you mean, was redirected and pulled out of your sight? And even if it "collapsed" these are Gigabit sites, backup is easy and there is, well let me understate, definitely more than one of these.
A new network called "The Scene" by heretoo · 2009-03-07 23:37 · Score: 3, Funny

Mmm hmm... and they all belonged to a network called "The Scene".. probably made with a "series of tubes"..
Not really seized, either, probably by Mathinker · 2009-03-08 00:05 · Score: 3, Interesting

This is vapor reporting from the Anti-Piracy Bureau. It seems that one server out of a ring of many, which might have had a total capacity of 65TB, is claimed to have been seized.
Re:An international pirate network called 'The Sce by PolygamousRanchKid+ · 2009-03-08 01:05 · Score: 4, Funny

The pirates' naming convention was itself, pirated, from Monty Python's "The Piranha Brothers" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirahna_Brothers):
The server was associated with a pirate scene, which they called, "The Scene." They formed a gang, which they called "The Gang." They ran operations, known as "The Operation, The Other Operation, and The Other Other Operation."
After becoming bored with Monty Python, they pirated the name of their network ring from "Buffy", calling it "Sunnydale."
Definitely a pattern of pirate behaviour.

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Re:There goes the weekend by Anonymous Coward · 2009-03-08 01:56 · Score: 5, Interesting

No what am I going to do? I've got every mp3 in existance! I've got all color movies ever released, and then some. But now what? And don't say I'm stealing because I'd never buy any of this shit anyway.
It's like that philosophy riddle: If a movie is copied in the woods and nobody watches it, was it copied?
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Nice Going, Assholes!!! by zmollusc · 2009-03-08 06:56 · Score: 3, Funny

I wondered what the hell was causing today's havoc. I work at the local multiplex and it was just crazy all shift, queues right round the block. People were coming in saying "Tickets for _anything_, hurry,hurry! Keep the change!" and throwing handfuls of money at the till. We had to call for a security van to take the sacks of money away before they filled the whole office.

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