Major file-sharing bust in Europe targets P2P admins
Found on Ars Technica on Monday, 06 September 2010
For two years, Belgium has been looking into the online operations that obtain, crack, and distribute software, games, and media, operations collectively referred to as The Scene.
Beyond Ingblad and his work in Sweden, 14 other countries were involved, including Norway, the UK, Germany, and Italy.
Sweden's Pirate Party, which is facing elections in the next two weeks, was "highly critical" of the raids and blasted the decision to "criminalize an entire generation."
Like so many raids before, this won't really affect filesharing in the long run. "The Scene" will just move deeper into the underground and releases will still surface all around the world. This was basically nothing more than an awful waste of money and police force that would have been better used on something that really matters.