Comments on: Biggest-ever Internet piracy bust claimed in Sweden

The server seized south of Stockholm contained 65 terabytes of digital data; The Pirate Bay has not been accused of being behind the site.

[Vegaman_Dan]

And the fact that nobody noticed that this person's systems were pulled off the internet indicates that the problem is far and beyond just this one instance.

It's a drop in the pool and the authorities are using a sieve to bail out the water.

[zcline]

Did you not read the article??

"The Antipiracy Agency claimed that the server was part of the Nordic FTP ring called "Sunnydale," comprising 10 servers. After the bust, the ring went down and could not be accessed online."

Nobody noticed? The more people they catch the less I'll have to deal with DRM infested software when I decide to buy a product legally. Good riddens.

[ranpha]

That article is wrong. There are 10 servers, hosting 65 terabytes of data. Only 1 server was seized (which is part of 65TB of pirated data), and the other 9 servers disappeared for protection after the seizure. The Sunnydale operator wasn't even arrested, and it wasn't even clear whether he/she is Swedish at all.

[Acid_Reign]

Do you honestly think that a decline in piracy would lead to a decline in DRM? Content providers, relinquishing control of their intellectual property? Ahahaha.

[pithenumber]

yeah
the less need to protect, the less protection

unless investors are crazy which they probably are though

[Grant_D]

"and the music equivalent of 16,000 movies" what is the music equivalent of a movie?

[pentest]

The corporate police force strikes again!

Too bad ordinary people don't have a policing agency looking out for them.

[contentcreator--2008]

What's that, the Thieves Guild?

[gertruded]

Well, the depression will destroy these corporations that behave so badly. The corporate police will disappear.

[ferretboy88]

Why do people think they should get everything free. Get off welfare and get a job.

[powertoast]

The thing I don't get here is how or why The Pirate Bay, is even mentioned in this article.

This server and FTP ring don't have anything to do with The Pirate Bay, though the writer suggest guilt by association.

And how this quote goes unchallenged is beyond me, since The Pirate Bay you cannot upload files to The Pirate Bay, they are a search engine not a file storage site.

"More than 800,000 people have uploaded files to Pirate Bay, so I do not believe it is the source of the entire problem," Sunde told SVD.se. "But it is possible that it is a significant source."

I would take a hard look at Erik Palm, and see if biased inaccurate reporting is common place before letting him join CNET.

[ilbknownas1]

I'm just glad its not aXXo, thats all that matters to me, lol