<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">De: Coko Tracy Musaza <cokotracy@gmail.com><br>Objet: Fwd: [afgwg-discuss] 49 servers shut in Euro police raid on online piracy network<br>Ŕ: "tracy musaza" <cocko_mirindi@yahoo.fr><br>Date: Vendredi 10 septembre 2010, 3h55<br><br><div class="plainMail">2010/9/9, Anne-Rachel Inné <<a ymailto="mailto:annerachel@gmail.com" href="/mc/compose?to=annerachel@gmail.com">annerachel@gmail.com</a>>:<br> <a href="http://www.expatica.com/be/news/local_news/49-servers-shut-in-euro-police-raid-on-online-piracy-network.html" target="_blank">http://www.expatica.com/be/news/local_news/49-servers-shut-in-euro-police-raid-on-online-piracy-network.html</a><br> 49 servers shut in Euro police raid on online piracy network<br><br> Police shut down 49 servers and detained 10 people in a Europe-wide raid in<br> 13 countries against an online
film pirating network, the Belgian<br> prosecutor's office said Wednesday.<br><br> The operation, organised after a two-year investigation by Belgian police,<br> was aimed at "groups pirating films and TV series in Dutch or international<br> productions sub-titled in that language."<br><br> The raids on Tuesday night, coordinated by Belgian police and European<br> authorities, hit Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Britain, Italy, Norway,<br> Poland, Sweden, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Austria and Hungary, said<br> spokesman Jean-Marc Meilleur.<br><br> He said police searched 57 high-capacity servers managed by four big<br> release, or distribution, groups that together account for 80 percent of all<br> new Dutch films downloaded illegally.<br><br> Losses incurred by the industry due to the illicit downloads are estimated<br> at around 30 million euros a year in Belgium (38 million
dollars) and six<br> billion worldwide, the spokesman said.<br><br> Police made 10 detentions in Belgium, Norway, Sweden and Poland. "They were<br> the leaders of the four groups," Meilleur said.<br><br> One of the biggest servers shut down and seized, which was found in Poland,<br> had a capacity of 150-180 terabytes.<br><br> The online pirates had also been using hospital or university servers on the<br> sly, the spokesman said.<br><br> In Sweden, police raided seven locations including one in a suburb of<br> Stockholm containing servers used by file-sharing website The Pirate Bay and<br> WikiLeaks, the whisteblowing website.<br><br> Pinter said the raids had "nothing to do" with WikiLeaks, whose founder<br> Julian Assange, faces rape allegations in Sweden.<br><br> © 2010 AFP</div><br><strong><font color="#ff7f00"><font color="#0080ff">Coko
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