Investigators in Germany have seized ten servers involved in the distribution of large amounts of copyrighted material in return for payment including games, movies, music and software. According to the GVU report the servers were invite only with members having to pay from 20 to 500 euro to download content.

On Monday, officials from the GVU seized ten webservers first a tracker server and a Webseedserver were seized, An immediate partial evaluation of extensive traffic data found on the server by the police resulted in the discovery to eight further bittorrent Webseed servers hosted with the same Provider.

The operation began in the United States like so many do. The world-wide federation of the filmwirtschaft was originally notified by the Motion Pictures Association OF America (MPAA) that a pirate copy of a current film available on a German portal, It turns out that the film in question could be traced by means of an individualized water-mark located on a Award Screener.

What makes this case different to the usual bittorrent bust’s is the fact the US individual who rented the servers was charging for downloads, basically he was commercially trading pirated copies of content just like an online store would. Found on the servers were latest current works in high quality, including films, like “John Rambo”, “Rush Hour 3″ and “The Attic”. Games lovers could choose between titles, such as “Crisis” and “Assassin’s Creed”. The offer predominantly addressed itself to prospective customers from the English-language area.

The tenth computer which functioned as tracker server as mentioned above, made the file exchanges possible. 60 Terabyte the monthly data traffic amounted to the total that has been quoted. This corresponds to the traffic data of almost 14,000 commercial DVDs, which were distributed to 13.000 users world-wide for order – in Australia and the USA and other countries.

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