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Friday, January 14, 2011
BRAIN takes Down Swan P2P Web Site
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Dutch anti-piracy organization BREIN today announced that it has taken out the top site "Swan," which is claimed to be the largest P2P site.
Swan was not a free Bittorent site. Through its FTP servers, it was
the "source" of P2P content, accessible only by specific user groups
or "release groups," who in term release content to P2P clients over
the internet. According to BREIN, Swan was the largest ever site
taken offline.
The Dutch anti-piracy organization estimetes that
more than 220 terabytes of copyrighted movies, TV shows, games,
music, software and digital books was stored at Swen's 12 servers.
BREIN had the help of the Swan's web host Worldstream, who cooperated
in not only bringing the site down but providing the identity of the
individual to BREIN.
The BREIN foundation is the joint anti-piracy program of authors,
artists and producers of music, film and interactive software.
BREIN is the central contact for government, law enforcement, trade
and media in the Netherlands with respect to all issues concerning
the unauthorised copying and distribution of entertainment products
both offline and online.
BREIN is the Dutch acronym for 'Protection Rights Entertainment
Industry Netherlands' and also the Dutch word for 'brain'. |
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