Police in Denmark has closed down the cardsharing.dk website, for the first time confiscating the domain itself.
The website has long been a thorn in the side of local pay-TV operators Canal Digital and Viasat. The site had offered ‘pirate’ subscriptions to the platforms through so-called card sharing over the internet.
The public prosecutor for serious economic crime said this was the first time that police had taken over a domain in connection with a criminal case.
In order to carry it out it was necessary for the attorney general to ask a court for approval in transferring the domain.
The case came to the attention of the authorities following the intervention of the pan-Nordic anti-piracy organization STOP.
Separately, the Swedish culture minister Lena Adelsohn Roth says the government there intends to introduce legislation making it illegal to watch pay-TV without paying the fee.
It intends to make devices for unpaid reception of pay-TV channels illegal.
Card sharing networks are already illegal in Sweden.
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Demonoid torrent site shut down by authorities
Demonoid torrent site shut down by authorities
Authorities in Ukraine have taken down Demonoid.com, considered one of the biggest torrent file-sharing sites in the world.
Demonoid was recently listed on The Notorious Markets List - a US government document marking the web services that "merit further investigation for possible intellectual property rights infringements".
Also on the list was The Pirate Bay, the filesharing site recently blocked by UK internet service providers, and Megaupload, which was closed down by US authorities earlier in the year and charged with mass copyright piracy.
In the document, Demonoid was described as being "recently ranked among the top 600 websites in global traffic and the top 300 in US traffic".
The Ukrainian ministry of Internal Affairs sanctioned the raid on the data centre that was hosting the site services last week.
Users were said to have become first aware of the action on July 26 when attempts to access Demonoid were met with a "server busy" message.
The action is being viewed as significant as it took place outside the US and western Europe. Many services accused of copyright piracy locate their servers in Eastern Europe or Russia in order to avoid the attention of authorities.
http://www.satandpcguy.com/forum/showthread.php/111952-Demonoid-torrent-site-shut-down-by-authorities-in-Ukraine
Authorities in Ukraine have taken down Demonoid.com, considered one of the biggest torrent file-sharing sites in the world.
Demonoid was recently listed on The Notorious Markets List - a US government document marking the web services that "merit further investigation for possible intellectual property rights infringements".
Also on the list was The Pirate Bay, the filesharing site recently blocked by UK internet service providers, and Megaupload, which was closed down by US authorities earlier in the year and charged with mass copyright piracy.
In the document, Demonoid was described as being "recently ranked among the top 600 websites in global traffic and the top 300 in US traffic".
The Ukrainian ministry of Internal Affairs sanctioned the raid on the data centre that was hosting the site services last week.
Users were said to have become first aware of the action on July 26 when attempts to access Demonoid were met with a "server busy" message.
The action is being viewed as significant as it took place outside the US and western Europe. Many services accused of copyright piracy locate their servers in Eastern Europe or Russia in order to avoid the attention of authorities.
http://www.satandpcguy.com/forum/showthread.php/111952-Demonoid-torrent-site-shut-down-by-authorities-in-Ukraine
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