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Massive p2p raids in Hungary, 100 servers down

Posted on 10.11.2007 at 15:31 in Tech News by Martin

A sad news came from Hungary, a country which seemed to be a very secure place in terms of peer to peer networks and filesharing. Hungarian police raided and confiscated over 100 servers, including scene top sites, private bittorrent trackers and warez forums. Affected sites include the biggest and most popular hungarian tracker bitHumen (30 000 registered users), release site nCore (which is already up though), trackers Bitlove, Independent, Moobs, Revolution and many other private FTP sites which had a connection with the scene.

The raid took place on November 9 between 11 A.M. and 3 P.M. in Budapest, Hungary. The sources write about 80 individuals from both police and special anti p2p organizations involved. The confiscated servers were hosted by various internet server providers (GTS-Datanet, Deninet, CFM, Giganet), so this was a highly organized and prepared raid. BitHumen temporary site informs its members that there were no IP addresses stored at the server, so they don’t have to worry about possible consequences from their membership.

The seizure of so many servers which were connected mostly by 100 Mbit lines caused an interesting effect in the Hungarian peering center (BIX): the overall country traffic went from 60 Gbit/s to 35-40 Gbits after the raid. This is another serious attack on the filesharers in last few days – the raid of British music tracker Oink was just a beginning, followed by Demonoid’s downtime and now this issue. It looks that noone is safe anymore…

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  1. Howard Stern
    November 10th, 2007 | 23:43

    Hey …. Just like in the good old USA … Take down one drug dealer and ten more step up to take their place…

    never surrender

  2. Eric the Midget
    November 11th, 2007 | 00:53

    @MarcusVR

    Do you have a list of the those ten new sites please? I only see sites going away, not starting up. :(

  3. Rekrul
    November 11th, 2007 | 01:06

    Am I the only one who sees a parallel between what the media corporations are doing now and what the Catholic church did hundreds of years ago? Sure they’re not torturing and executing people, but other than that, they’re acting pretty similar.

    Lots of people are defying them, so they’re doing their best to stamp out anything they don’t like. Governments are bowing down and doing what the media corporations tell them to. They’re basically writing the laws and crimilizing things that a large majority of people seem to want to do.

    Copyright infringement has become the new witchhunt.

  4. synonymous
    November 11th, 2007 | 01:08

    I don’t get why people go after those who host stuff like this, when there are much worse crimes being committed every hour. Just go downtown, you’ll see a jay walker every few minutes. Yes, jay walking is worse than piracy of virtual products because when you “steal” something virtual, you aren’t really stealing. Stealing is when you walk into a store, and grab something, and walk out without paying for it. Jay walking is putting a someone’s life at risk. So who should the police really be going after here?

  5. dude
    November 11th, 2007 | 01:11

    Im pretty hungary, maybe i will eat 100 servers tonight

  6. Jason
    November 11th, 2007 | 01:35

    every time a server is taken down a new is born, every time a new protection is made, it is cracked. it is one big circle.

    WE are at WAR many of the Great site may die in this war but
    new site will be born form their ashes.

    It would be good if someone could come up with a new Peer Guardian software or adding something like ssh connection to trackers.
    Long live The Scene

  7. Eric the Midget
    November 11th, 2007 | 01:54

    @Rekrul

    Yes, you are the only one who sees any connection like that at all. No one is “defying” a media company, they are simply stealing from them. Big difference.

    @synonymous

    Your idea that “piracy of virtual products” is not taking money out of someones pocket is immature at best. Copyright infringement prevents a media company from possibly making a sale because their product has already been distributed by illegal means. Wake up.

    @Jason

    Some people just have no clue.

  8. kelvin jenneskens
    November 11th, 2007 | 03:01

    wow this is such garbage. i hate anyone who is against p2p. seriously SCREW all those movie stars and artists who have more money than most everyone in this world for making movies or music or programs. i should have to pay 10 bucks for a cd nor should i have to pay 20 to 40 for a dvd that ill probably only watch one time.

  9. kelvin jenneskens
    November 11th, 2007 | 03:04

    hey ERIC THE MIDGET. SHUT UP

  10. kelvin jenneskens
    November 11th, 2007 | 03:06

    HEY ERIC NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR YOUR ANTI PIRACY BULL. WHILE I WORK MY ASS OFF EVERYDAY TO BENEFIT SOCIETY. WITH A REGULAR JOB THAT IS ESSENTIAL THE STUPID MEDIA CHILL AND PLAY DRESS UP AND THEN ACT OR PLAY MUSIC BOTH OF WHICH ARE A LOT OF FUN COMPARED TO MOST REGUALAR JOBS…I SHOULDNT HAVE TO SPEND MY MONEY ON THERE STUFF

  11. llllllllllllll
    November 11th, 2007 | 08:58

    _!_
    all high cost sofware producers..

  12. tucker
    November 11th, 2007 | 11:04

    oh noes USENET SI NIX!!!111

  13. Skinner
    November 11th, 2007 | 11:30

    irc is still up with tons and tons of stuff.

  14. Valo
    November 11th, 2007 | 11:50

    XDCC/fservs will always run hot. and soon they’ll be under more pressure

  15. BadBug
    November 11th, 2007 | 12:09

    I just dont see y we cant make a return of them good ol ddos bots and take the RIAA – MPAA off line…and here is an angle…. if i bought a cd say 4 years ago and my neighbor decides to steal it and i am out that cd then because i have allready bought it i already own my copy of it so i should be able to download a replacement of it free as i allready paid the peeps that want to get paid.bottom line it is all greed.who can have more money while most of us peeps that work 40 hours at a minimum wage job just to pay the rent and maybe some food cant afford to go and spend $20-$30 to go to the movies (popcorn and soda included) or buy a $30.oo DVD .Besides if i download say a new music group i never heard of and then i like em i am more pron to go to one of thier shows or buy t-shirts and stuff and even buy some of their cd’s.One of the reasons music downloading has become so popular is because the lame artist make a CD with 12 songs on it 11 of them are crap and one is good as hell but i guess they want to force feed you the crap and get thier $20.oo. just my 2 cents

  16. lesnoi_olen'
    November 11th, 2007 | 13:51

    In Hungary, sharing or downloading movies or music using p2P is legal, if the media was shared free of charge . Sharing copyrighted software is illegal. There were some law suits against hungarian DC hub owners in the past, and all DC hub owners were cleared of charge. The torrent trackers, like DC hubs, store no copyrighted material, so if the current cases make it to the court, i’d expect a similar verdict.

    And that’s why the hungarian police confiscated the servers, not just the hard disks. They can’t win at the court, so they want to make the torrent tracker’s duty harder (it takes much more money to replace a whole server than a hd). Also they can withhold the servers for a long-long time (and people too… recently, a hungarian radical was jailed for several months on forged charges).

    And… the lawmakers in Hungary somehow figured out that most of the blank CDs/DVDs sold are used to store copyrighted material… so they embedded a “copyright-tax” in the price of blank discs, so when you buy a blank CD/DVD in Hungary you pay not only for the disc, but for the music/movie distributors too.

  17. Orwen
    November 11th, 2007 | 19:23

    “And… the lawmakers in Hungary somehow figured out that most of the blank CDs/DVDs sold are used to store copyrighted material… so they embedded a “copyright-tax” in the price of blank discs, so when you buy a blank CD/DVD in Hungary you pay not only for the disc, but for the music/movie distributors too.”

    Yeah, that’s true.

  18. Cooper
    November 11th, 2007 | 21:39

    Bithu was the biggest closed-source hungarian tracker. Majomparade,nCore,Preto,and all the others’ users were totally scared of their IPS (one of my friends has an acc on all of them). Oh,yeah,one of my friends is an admin an a rising tracker,and another one is creating one ATM

  19. bsx
    November 12th, 2007 | 11:49

    pictures about the busted servers: http://asva.info/#pol

  20. Kay
    November 12th, 2007 | 17:00

    I think the ISP’s and internet companies should back p2p, the only reason ppl use large bandwidth is for the soul purpose of p2p. once you remove p2p sources, there will be a huge dramitic drop of large bandwidth users, as there wont be the need for it.
    they will lose their customers by the ton!
    they better take the p2p side before its too late.

  21. rising
    November 12th, 2007 | 19:21

    the real bandwith sucker is youtube,google video and other streaming services in internet. why they blamed p2p..
    so sad…

  22. sohail20
    December 31st, 2008 | 16:11

    as more istes get shut down but i have links to scene ftp servers aatleast im whitin where the source is!
    as top sites get shut down all lower down pubic sites which host new torents will slow down in distrubting thmem.

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