The German police have arrested a man more than 120,000 movies would have ge lwa pload, mainly at the now no longer available streamingwebsite Kino.to. The suspect was arrested during a raid in his apartment.
During the invasion of Schleswig-Holstein, which last Wednesday all took place, was under more computer equipment from the suspect were seized. It was going to be a middle-aged man who, under the alias Hologram since 2008 operated. According to the prosecutor in Dresden is the raid and arrest of the man as a “big blow to the scene”, reported the Leipziger Volkszeitung.
‘Hologram’ is suspected of violating copyright for commercial purposes in more than 120,000 cases. He placed not only home-made copies of films on the Kino.to-portal, but also made copies of others accessible on the site, it is claimed. According to a spokesperson from the attorney-general in Dresden, he was one of the greatest uploaders for Kino.to.
Kino.to was two years ago already been taken offline after in several European countries, raids were made, including in the Netherlands. The defendant would then ” his ” movies have offered on similar sites like Kinox.to and Movie2k. The German collecting society GVU did in 2011, a declaration against ‘Hologram’, along with the declaration against Kino.to. The owner of Kino.to, Dirk B., was in 2012 sentenced to four and a half years in prison and a fine of 3.7 million euros.
The authorities arrived the suspect on the trail thanks to the computer equipment which with the large-scale raids in 2011 were confiscated. However, it was now only possible to the man and his place of residence, with certainty, be traced by his ip-address. The man has known and is willing to cooperate with the investigation, claims the police. Therefore, he is provisionally back on free feet.
According to a spokesperson from the attorney-general to focus criminal investigations is now to the ‘middle layer’, or the uploaders, now the owner has already been convicted. “We are working our from top to bottom, and we are not done yet,” said the woordvoorder opposite the Leipziger Volkszeitung.