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Swedish Police Seize Massive Piracy Server

By soulxtc

Anti-piracy lawyer Henrik Pontén incredulously claims was the source of all pirated material available on The Pirate Bay BitTorrent tracker site. Swedish police recently seized a server containing some 16,000 pirated movies in a raid they conducted during the high profile trial of The Pirate Bay BitTorrent tracker site. The amount of pirated material found on the server was the largest quantity ever to be discovered by Swedish police. They say the server belonged to a file-sharing ring called Sunnydale which consisted of a total of 10 servers and together contained 65TB of copyrighted material. "The well-organized pirates on the scene seem to have an inflated sense of their own ability to conceal themselves, but this raid shows that we can get to them," said Anti-Piracy Agency lawyer Henrik Pontén in a statement.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on March 12, 2009 (boomark / email).