Illegal File Trading Draws Two P2P Raids In Europe

had3l writes "Police in Finland raided the operation of a popular Bit Torrent site and arrested 34 people, 30 of which were volunteers who helped moderate the site. This comes right after the MPAA reported that it would start suing tracker servers." An anonymous reader points to a story (currently at the top of RespectP2P.org's homepage) about the raid yesterday morning of Dutch eDonkey sites Releases4u and Shareconnector.

Ars3 Hum0r

[webword]

"The Motion Picture Ass. of America (MPAA) today announced (PDF) that it is pursuing civil actions against hundreds of server operators of BitTorrent, eDonkey and DirectConnect P2P file-swapping networks, in its war on internet movie piracy."

Emphasis mine but "Ass." is theirs.

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[BJZQ8]

Insert Comment about star systems slipping through your fingers...

Re:I have said it before and I'll say it again...

[imsabbel]

And of course its just TOO nice that the civil disobedience also provides music, movies, games, ect. without ever paying for them.
Its really tough to be a dissident in digital times...

Re:TV Torrents

[bongoras]

A recent example is that a friend of mine missed last week's episode of her favorite show, ER. I got a torrent the next day and burned her a DVD.

I bet she still won't sleep with you, though.. :-)

The Register Has It Correct

[cpuenvy]

"The Motion Picture Ass. of America (MPAA)"

Perhaps this is the new way to refer to them, and we should all jump on board.