SnowTigers , down for good ?

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Mariana D

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would love to see proof of the "several hundred thousand dollars" they supposedly have.

Common line these days isnt it.. said the same about TPB and everyone else they ever arrested for running a tracker :)
 
Link to the article:

http://torrentfreak.com/military-intelligence-used-to-shutdown-250k-user-bittorrent-site-090606/


I think this is very disturbing, considering the fact that in most European countries, in fact in most democratic countries, the military can not be used against the citizens, unless in a state of emergency, which clearly is not the case here. Using military intelligence to aid private anti-piracy groups (and the police) to shut down a freaking torrent tracker is way over the top, and just shows how hysterical the whole situation in France has gotten these days.

This would be a major scandal in most countries, I'm really surprised that there hasn't been an outcry yet, knowing that the French usually are very quick to demonstrate...
 
The 'important' servers were apparently hosted in Canada, so they did choose a different country than their own. But like I wrote earlier, that is of no use when the police (which is completely different than a (private) anti-piracy group) follows the money trail, at least for the siteops themselves.
 
Even if they are hosted in Canada (or elsewhere 'safe'), the police just have to follow the money trail. And that's the point, this apparently was a police raid, which is something completely different than a anti-piracy group trying to shut down a site.
 
They would have to emulate what swedvdr does..LOL, anyway, there are Not many French Trackers that are even close to the size.content and the speed of snowtigers, I really "Miss" it.......sigh......:(:yup::frusty:
 
Exclusive: The national police has put an end to the largest semi-private site SnowTigers. 21 servers seized, 10 arrested persons.

We'll Relations, Wednesday, persistent rumors of a rebound in the ears of writing ZATAZ.COM. The police allegedly put his hand on site administrators Snowtigers. Some Internet users have obviously made quickly questioned the subject, while in 14 years of existence, ZATAZ.COM proved once more the quality of its sources and its news. The time to verify, aggregate, ... Here it is:

We had confirmation by the ALPA, the Association for the Fight against audiovisual piracy, the end of Snowtigers. Ten people in charge of this important forum for the dissemination of counterfeits have been arrested.

An operation set up by the Gendarmerie Nationale. "We worked very closely with the military," said Fr
 
how do you know the circumstances surrounding this? all you're going on is a quote on torrentfreak, which is unattributed and unsourced.

what if some of the staff were in the military? don't be so quick to jump to conclusions, based on a blog post.
 
France, like most European Union member countries, is simply not a safe place to host a torrent site. But France in particular seems to be rather zealous when it comes to "battling piracy", as could be seen in recent attempts to change the copyright laws both on the national and European level.

This applies to the popular OVH network also, of course, where quite a few sites have been busted in recent times.
 
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