From an MPAA press release today:
Brussels / Encino, CA - In an assault against Internet piracy in Europe, officials in Sweden executed a successful raid on Bahnhof, the countrys oldest and largest private ISP. Located in Stockholm, Bahnhof has been a source for top-level piracy for several years, hosting some of the biggest and fastest servers in Europe. This was the first time the Swedish courts gave permission for a raid of this kind, directed at the offices of a major ISP with no prior notice.
The March 10 raid was undertaken by the Special Enforcement Unit of the Stockholm Enforcement Authority and was a result of six months of intensive investigation. The raid was assisted by local law enforcement authorities and was conducted in close cooperation with local representatives of the MPA (Svenska Antipiratbyrån), the IFPI, and STIM, the Swedish Performing Rights Society. The raids resulted in the seizure of four servers containing a total of 1,800 movie files, 5,000 software application files, and 450,000 MP3 files, which is enough for up to three and a half years of uninterrupted play. A total of 23 terabytes of data have been seized.
The servers seized are staging grounds for a large portion of the pirate content on the Internet and one server in particular is reputed to be the biggest pirate server in Europe.
Over the last month, Swedish law enforcement officials have conducted approximately twenty raids on individuals who are heavily involved in online pirate activity. Sweden has long been considered a haven for online pirates. The successes achieved by the Swedish Enforcement Authority and the local authorities are truly outstanding, and deal a major blow against piracy in Sweden and throughout the rest of Europe, said John G. Malcolm, Senior Vice President and Director, Worldwide Anti-Piracy Operations, MPA
Brussels / Encino, CA - In an assault against Internet piracy in Europe, officials in Sweden executed a successful raid on Bahnhof, the countrys oldest and largest private ISP. Located in Stockholm, Bahnhof has been a source for top-level piracy for several years, hosting some of the biggest and fastest servers in Europe. This was the first time the Swedish courts gave permission for a raid of this kind, directed at the offices of a major ISP with no prior notice.
The March 10 raid was undertaken by the Special Enforcement Unit of the Stockholm Enforcement Authority and was a result of six months of intensive investigation. The raid was assisted by local law enforcement authorities and was conducted in close cooperation with local representatives of the MPA (Svenska Antipiratbyrån), the IFPI, and STIM, the Swedish Performing Rights Society. The raids resulted in the seizure of four servers containing a total of 1,800 movie files, 5,000 software application files, and 450,000 MP3 files, which is enough for up to three and a half years of uninterrupted play. A total of 23 terabytes of data have been seized.
The servers seized are staging grounds for a large portion of the pirate content on the Internet and one server in particular is reputed to be the biggest pirate server in Europe.
Over the last month, Swedish law enforcement officials have conducted approximately twenty raids on individuals who are heavily involved in online pirate activity. Sweden has long been considered a haven for online pirates. The successes achieved by the Swedish Enforcement Authority and the local authorities are truly outstanding, and deal a major blow against piracy in Sweden and throughout the rest of Europe, said John G. Malcolm, Senior Vice President and Director, Worldwide Anti-Piracy Operations, MPA
Though they do put caps on us. grrrrrrrr.
