It is not bogus, what is not said is that most media in iceland is owned by the same company and that company is involved with SMAIS, it also owns most of the telephone company that most of those arrested were using, most of the media in iceland is talking about is millions lost by the record industry and a few other bogus articles, the police here doesnt even have a computer crime department.
The police promised about 50 to 70GB of new material to get on the hub, got the ip address of the biggest sharer there and started monitering his traffic, this has been going on since february when SMAIS opend the case on the operators of the hub. With in housr all traffic with all public and most private hubs in iceland stopped and people were wiping or moving their harddisks, total traffic was reduced 40% and has been for the last few days here are some graphs for internet traffic in iceland, (in icelandic, mid means wednesday) http://www-m.isnic.is/status/rix/alag/alag.html
Almost all dc hubs in iceland are icelanders only, that is beacuse 1GB of data from abroad cost those that download it $32 dollars.
Here is the page to the 4 largest public hubs in iceland (in icelandic) http://www.deilir.is/
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It is not bogus, what is not said is that most media in iceland is owned by the same company and that company is involved with SMAIS, it also owns most of the telephone company that most of those arrested were using, most of the media in iceland is talking about is millions lost by the record industry and a few other bogus articles, the police here doesnt even have a computer crime department.
The police promised about 50 to 70GB of new material to get on the hub, got the ip address of the biggest sharer there and started monitering his traffic, this has been going on since february when SMAIS opend the case on the operators of the hub. With in housr all traffic with all public and most private hubs in iceland stopped and people were wiping or moving their harddisks, total traffic was reduced 40% and has been for the last few days here are some graphs for internet traffic in iceland, (in icelandic, mid means wednesday) http://www-m.isnic.is/status/rix/alag/alag.html Almost all dc hubs in iceland are icelanders only, that is beacuse 1GB of data from abroad cost those that download it $32 dollars. Here is the page to the 4 largest public hubs in iceland (in icelandic) http://www.deilir.is/