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FBI Helps Shut Down Piracy Sites In Romania

Posted by samzenpus on from the shut-it-down dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The FBI has taken a major role in the shutting down of at least two popular piracy-torrent sites in Romania, according to a report from Romania's High Court of Cassation and Justice. The popular torrenting domains serialepenet.ro and fisierulmeu.ro are now offline after a series of raids on individuals and companies, including a hosting company in Bucharest thought to have some involvement with the pirate operation.

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  1. Not torrent sites by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    serialepenet.ro was a streaming site and fisierulmeu.ro was a file sharing site (similar to rapidshare, mega, etc). Neither of those of are torrent sites. The major torrent trackers in Romania are doing bussines as usual.

  2. New Guantanamo Bay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    In the early 90's all Romanians were really happy to hear that the USA opened a military base on the Black Sea.
    They were happy because the Russians stopped yapping about Romania joining the "Commonwealth of Independent States", that is the former USSR.
    Now that base is on the main secret prisons mean to replace Guantanamo Bay.
    Really good job there.

    No surprise the FBI is so active in the country.