News German Police Raid more than 100 homes in Piracy Investigation

[AdultKing]

Four hundred police officers raided 121 homes today in a crackdown on the popular linking site Boerse.bz. The homes are believed to be connected to active uploaders of the site but no arrests have been made. The Boerse.bz website itself switched to a new provider but remains online.

boerseLast week news broke that police in Germany had carried out raids looking for the operators of Kinox.to, a manhunt that?s still ongoing.

The police actions are part of a large investigation into the local piracy scene in Germany which are today followed by one of the largest anti-piracy raids in history, involving the link forum Boerse.bz.

Police headquartered in Cologne have just announced that they carried out raids on 121 homes across the country. The police are gathering evidence on the operators of the popular linking forum and many of the raided homes are connected to active contributers to the site.

The police raids involved around 400 police officers who seized numerous computers, hard drives and other storage media. No arrests have been made thus far but some suspects have reportedly been willing to cooperate.

http://torrentfreak.com/german-polic...ckdown-141104/

This will upset a lot of upload monkeys. The more of this we see happening the better.

[Jel]

good news. also, classic comments on that article.

[AdultKing]

I liked this

These files were shared among an estimated 2.7 million Boerse.bz users and the uploaders reportedly earned referral commissions of up to several thousand euros per month through various cyberlockers.

That's just one site, gives you an idea of the scale of the piracy problem.

[freecartoonporn]

why the fuck no arrests ? they raid for fun ?

[AdultKing]

Originally Posted by freecartoonporn

why the fuck no arrests ? they raid for fun ?

My guess is that they are working up toward a major case against other sites.

The obvious reason many of the sites targeted recently are still online is for honeypot purposes.

[jimmycastor]

its a classic investigation tactic, throwing a stone into a pond and watch the fish go nervous . some hobby uploaders probably may become nervous and talk....
my bet is they (the investigors)do not have much, the site concerned is still up and running

[Dirty D]

Glad to see this

Wish other countries like the USA would take copyright and piracy seriously.

[seeandsee]

Never heard about it, but looks its popular in germany

[MaDalton]

Originally Posted by AdultKing

My guess is that they are working up toward a major case against other sites.

The obvious reason many of the sites targeted recently are still online is for honeypot purposes.

did you miss the kinox.to arrests?

http://torrentfreak.com/manhunt-unde...rators-141031/

2 guys still on the run

[TeenCat]

wow, boerse.bz? what the hell is it? some german forum, and with that kinox looks like germans really care and do something about piracy

[AdultKing]

Originally Posted by MaDalton

did you miss the kinox.to arrests?

http://torrentfreak.com/manhunt-unde...rators-141031/

2 guys still on the run

No I didn't miss that, it's all a bit strange that one see

https://gfy.com/showpost.php?p=20275970&postcount=7643

[pornguy]

Originally Posted by Dirty D

Glad to see this

Wish other countries like the USA would take copyright and piracy seriously.

No no no..

Lets try and put the pornographers in jail as they are the scum of the earth and the people stealing from EVERYONE are ok.

[WDF]

And through all the police action the sites are still up and the domain names are still active.

Things must be slow @ SFL, Copy Control, and AdultIP with AK posting news outside the Killing Off File Locker thread and using TorrentFreak as his sole source of information.