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Massive scene busts in last month's takedown
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24 january, last month at approximately 10 AM, local police in a wide spread coördinated effort raided over 300 homes and offices associated with top warez providers. The raids took place in Germany, Austria, Holland, Poland and the Czech Republic. According to GVU, over 30 individuals were arrested in the raids. Right after the busts, the website of GVU was under heavy DDoS attack. The raids also yielded over 20 servers, which provided FTP (File Transfer Protocol) access to individuals belonging to the release groups. GVU claims the warez groups were responsible for the proliferation “of illegal copies of films, computer games, music and user software.” The enforcement raids were the culmination of the GVU’s investigative efforts, with legal follow-through provided by the prosecutor’s offices in Duesseldorf and Frankfurt. It is said that the GVU got in one of the sites by paying for at least for one of the servers hardware. So it looks like the site IOH (Island Of Hope) was more or less a GUV honeypot, attracting the spread members of the release groups.
Rumours of the bust began circulating online today, as members attempted to warn each other. According to warning notices online, the following top providers have, for all intents and purposes, been eliminated; RELOADED, KNIGHTS, TFCiSO, Cinemaniacs, German-Friend, ParadieseBeach and Klapsmuehle. Information about RELOADED was later marked as not verified and this group hasn’t been affected that hard. In addition, the leader of RELOADED was reported as arrested during the raids. The GVU confirmed the following release groups were eliminated, most of them german: Unreality, DRAGON, Laboratory, Heaven, code talk, GTR, ECP, TRCD, AOS, MRM, SITH, GWL, Cine VCD, AHE, Cinemaniacs. kHz quit the scene after the news.
More info:
» BUSTED.24.01.2006.GTR.ECP.TRCD.AOS.MRM.SITH.GWL.Cine-VCD.AHE.Cinemaniacs-GOODLUCK
» German.Bust.naehere.infos-iND
» German.Bust.naehere.infos.Part.2-iND
» German_Siteop_ODB_Gets_Busted-INSECURE
» Goodbye.Scene.Over.and.Out-2006-kHz
» Pictures of the scene busts |
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Kustantaja model after 02-03-2007 |
