Andre Yoskowitz
4 Sep 2009 21:55
According to a press release by the German anti-piracy agency GVU, German police have raided the homes of six men accused of running a private torrent tracker.
Two of those arrested were alleged administrators, and the other four were uploaders accused of renting seedboxes to distribute the unauthorized movies, game, music and software.
The GVU release says the raids netted seven computers, eleven HDDs and over 870 CDs and DVDs. Overall however, the tracker seemed to be pretty small, and only had 2000 members while tracking just under 1000 torrents.
Members and other readers of the release have speculated that the site was targeted because they offered users 30GB free leech for 15 euro a month, thus making them somewhat of a "pay site."