(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Police in Budapest, Hungary, have seized 50 computer servers in several server hotels and at a technical college in an action against various online piracy operations, according to reports from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (www.ifpi.org).
According to the IFPI, which represents the recording industry across 66 countries worldwide, the Budapest Police Department carried out raids on June 16 partly in response to complaints by the Hungarian Copyright Alliance and by the local film industry.
Police report that 500 terabytes of content was found on the servers including data allegedly used to illegally distribute thousands of copyrighted works via torrent sites both locally and internationally.
According to peer to peer news site TorrentFreak (www.torrentfreak.com), many of Hungary’s trackers shut down, including, most significantly, 900,000-peer tracker “ncore.” It also reports that Hungarian authorities, Under pressure from the US, have carried at least two notable raids against torrent sites, once in 2007, and again in 2009.
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