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Czech Police Bust 'Blind Alley' Pre-Release Music Topsite

By soulxtc

Release group's server was hosted at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague. According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) Czech police have shut down a major server being used to share large amounts of pre-release music music and film onto the internet. The server was hosted at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague, though owned by a private legal entity, and was used to power the topsite ?BA? or ?blind alley.' Topsites are websites used by groups of users known as ?release groups? to leak pre-release music onto the internet. Police discovered the server contained an estimated 4TB of copyrighted music, film, games and software and was connected to the internet by a fast one gigabyte line to enable the material to be distributed quickly and efficiently.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on April 24, 2008 (boomark / email).