Swedish police conduct file sharing raid

I guess we have to used the police for something, no? Since they are useless in solving the countless amount of rape and murder; then why not redirect their ineptitude towards knocking-down doors and confiscate computers.

The police raids were conducted in response to reports from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), which represents 95 percent of the music industry

So now the big US money grabbing Music industry is A snooping on Swedes and then getting the Swedish tax payer - ie me to foot the bill for the Police raidLOL

Great let's get more of these theives behind bars where they belong.

What pathetic a waste of time, effort and money.

thank you peropaco,couldnt have said it better myself

9k-17k files... whats this? 2003?

Heck I have more than those an any one of my 6 hard disks.

Problem is, people are getting too complacent even though they know new Swedish laws like IPRED has been paid by large overseas corporations, you want to share on DC++ fine... but share while behind a VPN like IPREDator.se (run by thepiratebay boys - full disclosure: i am in no way connected to that site nor do i profit in any way or form if you join the site) and be safe.

You dont go barebacking every person you meet without protection (not unless you are stupid) so why not take a few basic precautions when filesharing? 50kr a month gets you peace of mind and all the filesharing you could possibly want with impunity.

As for the Admin of these sites, I hope he had encrypted his drives using something like (free) truecrypt (www.truecrypt.org) which would pretty much render the police's and IFPI's search for "evidence" up the creek.

@peropaco, dont be silly... rape, child porn, murder etc dont cost the big corporations a dime, nailing a teenager because he downloads an MP3 file *may* cost them upto 30cents.. and since they paid for IPRED to come into Sweden, why waste time on small things like rape etc

And like you pointed out, since they are soooo efficient at solving rapes and murders, perhaps working as lackeys for the music industry fatcats is more their style.

@chapora, here's a carrot...., I sometimes like feeding trolls ;)

My 13 years old kid use the DC hubs.

Oh, oh, my poor soul! I ve raised a criminal! In my house! All that time!

Now he s playing at guitar, maybe using on mp4player some tunes he stolen from innocent corporations... What can I do? call the police? But I love him! Let him get away with this? I don t like criminals, and to have one in my house...

My hearth is bleeding.

more grand standing by the police, look look what we can do we dun caught us some crimnalsss yuhk. reminds me of the zoolander computer sceen lol.

@chapora see from your other posts your a "musician" working for the record scum. Stop punping your money in melodicrap and x-nonsense, YOU are the one destroying music, YOU are the criminals...

Lets take this into perspective:

2.8 million Swedes fileshare (www.thelocal.se/22602/20091012/) every few weeks 4 get caught... now the filesharing "problem" is just 2,799,096.

Good job IFPI you are certainly tackling this "problem" in the same modern way of thinking that you handled Napster and thats gotten you to your present state.

Also worth noting by following the above link to thelocals previous article is that the 2.8 million figure was given to us by the scum....umm, folk, at the IFPI themselves.

If a third of a countries population has no problem with blatantly thumbing their noses at a unfair and unjust law, its not a problem with the people, but a problem with the law - and the industry that would rather fight the tide and stick to their outdated business practices than innovate for the digital age.

off courses prices of DVDs are unreasonably high and out of the access, which provides rational cause to share with others who can't.

"Also worth noting by following the above link to thelocals previous article is that the 2.8 million figure was given to us by the scum....umm, folk, at the IFPI themselves"

If the IFPI is able to give all these figures. They must be hacking into a hell of a lot of PC's and installing some keystoke capturing software.

Arrest them all

@Rick

> Arrest them all

Wouldnt be the first time the self righteous bastards did something illegal:

p2p-blog.com/item-1216.html

more links:

newsintech.com/2009/10/german-anti-piracy-body-promote-illegal-downloading/700

techdirt.com/articles/20090706/1713445461.shtml

extratorrent.com/article/150/global+fraud+alert+pre+settlement+notices+could+be+illegal.html

More info on studios screwing over artists:

techdirt.com/articles/20100201/0234157986.shtml

Need more links, just ask, unlike certain trolls and shills on these boards, i back up most of what i saw with links directly on this site or other sites that I am not affiliated with (unless mentioned).

eZee - I download myself and would not like to preach here for righteous behavior, but it is clear even for you that there is something morally wrong here. You protect yourself behind VPN, you encrypt your stuff etc. And even you realize that downloaders are losing in courts. So all arguments are good, but do not make it ideological and please do not picture yourself like some Robyn Hood who takes from the rich and gives to the poor. You do not give back anything.

It is just a wallet laying down on the ground by a guy and we just come an pick it up, covering under a mask.

I bet that you do not go and actually pay for the music by Robyn - who owns her own production company and writes and sings herself. You also do not differ between those who work for predating production companies and those who issue their records by themselves through hard work and sleepless nights, while investing all their savings into it.

This is especially true for PC gaming industry. The margins of programmers are low and a lot of helluva games are made by 5-6 guys who sit in a room for 3 years with no life. Our actions are hitting then directly and you can righteously sit and tell these programmers that you take the money from their evil bosses - bottom line you take the money directly from them. That is also why many games are switching to Steam, companies block accounts on consoles, rental stores are non-existent and the life harder on EVERYONE.

BTW nothing is overpriced. Free market decides the prices and people are ready to spend whatever is required.

I feel so much safer knowing that the police are doing their job and going after this serious problem. Though I bet it's a lot easier arresting some computer/music geeks than it is to patrol the streets of Rosengård.