More high-profile P2P busts

[Kizzume]

arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071109-more-high-profile-p2p-busts-topsite-seized-as-demonoid-shuttered.html

CRIA has actually been leaning on the site for weeks. In late September, Torrentfeak reported that Demonoid had banned access to all Canadian IP addresses after legal threats from CRIA. Now, it appears that the CRIA has been able to get Demonoid's hosting company to pull its support.

In Poland, police raided Wroclaw Technical University and a private home to confiscate material used to host HPN. HPN, like the now-busted OiNK in the UK, specialized in leaking albums before their official release date. Police took six servers and 37 hard drives. Two people have been arrested.

The raid came after investigations from the IFPI, music's international trade group, and ZPAV, which is its local Polish affiliate. Wroclaw police acted after both groups supplied them with information on HPN.

Now that unprotected mp3's are starting to make good sales legally, maybe this sort of thing won't matter as much in the future.

[Hackfest]

Yikes! I'm glad that I have complete ROM sets. I almost wonder if someday we'll all look back and say, "I remember before it was all nazified and you could get anything online" And our kids will say, "For free? Don't tell stories dad."

[Kizzume]

Oh man, that is so true. Those are the same kinds of scenarios I picture out of this too. Lots of "when I was your age".....

[jq]

hackfest said:

Yikes! I'm glad that I have complete ROM sets. I almost wonder if someday we'll all look back and say, "I remember before it was all nazified and you could get anything online" And our kids will say, "For free? Don't tell stories dad."

Lol, no kidding. Sadly, I believe that day is coming