The German police have this week to conduct a search carried out by seven alleged leaders of the releasegroepen ‘Inspired’ and ‘Crucial’. The servers of the groups, with a total capacity of 210 terabytes, were in Switzerland and Hungary.
Both releasegroepen would be behind the dissemination of at least 2500 illegal copies of dvd and blu-rayfilms sit, many of which are regularly for the official release released, claims the German piraterijbestrijder Gesellschaft zur Verfolgung von Urheberrechtsverletzungen and GVU. The organization cites as an example the film Harry Potter and the Halfblood Prince, which Cucial on the basis of a stolen copy of an Austrian press department early released would have.
The homes would be on the 29th of november have occurred when suspects in Kiel, Cologne, Freiburg, Darmstadt and Frankfurt, made the GVU Saturday known. At the international action were also data centers in Switzerland and Hungary. The suspects would server room under a false name have rented.
In Switzerland, it went to a storage capacity of 180 terabytes, while in Hungary, a 30 terabyte stored. In Germany took the police to a plurality of computers and hard drives seized. Particularly Crucial, the German anti-piraterijorganisatie as important topsite, top numerous sub-groups were to stand up in the US. The action is much research preceded. GVU filed in september 2009 a criminal complaint. The organization would have until August 2009 all of 1600 illegal prints of the two groups is counted. Crucial would be since 2008, Inspired would be activities two years earlier started.