Massive scene busts today
Damn, darker times are coming. At approximately 10 AM, local police in a wide spread coordinated effort raided over 300 homes and offices associated with top warez providers. The raids took place in Germany, Austria, Holland, Poland and the Czech Republic. According to GVU (translated to German Federation Against Copyright Theft), over 30 individuals were arrested in the raids. The website of GVU is now under hard DDoS attack. The raids also yielded over 20 servers, which provided FTP (File Transfer Protocol) access to individuals belonging to the release groups. GVU claims the warez groups were responsible for the proliferation “of illegal copies of films, computer games, music and user software.” The enforcement raids were the culmination of the GVU’s investigative efforts, with legal follow-through provided by the prosecutor’s offices in Duesseldorf and Frankfurt.
Rumors of the bust began circulating online today, as members attempted to warn each other. According to warning notices online, the following top providers have, for all intents and purposes, been eliminated; RELOADED, KNIGHTS, TFCiSO, Cinemaniacs, German-Friend, ParadieseBeach and Klapsmuehle. Information about RELOADED was later marked as not verified and this group hasn’t been affected that hard. In addition, the leader of RELOADED was reported as arrested during the raids. The GVU confirmed the following release groups were eliminated, most of them german: Unreality, DRAGON, Laboratory, Heaven, code talk, GTR, ECP, TRCD, AOS, MRM, SITH, GWL, Cine VCD, AHE, Cinemaniacs. So the conclusion is up to you, may be its time to hide for someone. There’s no doubt that new crews and groups will be replaced after some time, but now its probably better to take more care about yourself…
We got also some interesting reading for you (NFOs):
- BUSTED.24.01.2006.GTR.ECP.TRCD.AOS.MRM.SITH.GWL.Cine-VCD.AHE.Cinemaniacs-GOODLUCK
- First.Infos.bout.new.Busts.in.Germany.READ.NFO-iND
- German.Bust.naehere.infos-iND
- German.Bust.naehere.infos.Part.2-iND
- German_Siteop_ODB_Gets_Busted-INSECURE
- Goodbye.Scene.Over.and.Out-2006-kHz
UPDATE: our website is under massive flood of new visitors (500 unique in last 20 minutes) which is causing occasional inaccessibility of Releaselog, be patient…
UPDATE #2: due to comment of one visitor, german offices of GVU were raided just few hours after this bust. Prosecutor assume that they paid at least for one of the servers hardware and the admin. So it looks like IOH (island of hope, main server) was more or less a GUV honeypot, attracting the spread members of the release groups around one server and get them more easy…
UPDATE #3: GVU’s website is now running fine again after DDoS attack so they released some pictures from this raid, check it out.
Sources: gve.de, slyck.com, local greengrocer
Comments (71)
scene sux balls ;x
not good
fucked
hope we all have learned once more that security is just
an illusion
and that we need to be more careful
i feel sorry for the groups and persons that have been buted
all the great work they have done so far
gonna miss em all
Greets
Oh.. man, that sucks!
Fucking police..
GVU IS FUCKING BULLSHIT ! I BET THEY JUST Do THE SAME @ HOME !!!
FUCK FUCK FUCK , THE GROUPS DiD ALLWAYS THE BESTE FOR US !!!!
iF i COULD i WOULD BUY THEM FREE
i actually feel sorry for kHz because i liked their rlses alot..
anyway, german scene’s gotta get over it. new grps will come and join the game, but that’s just business…
all in all a disaster for german scene :/
/me stabs mp3scener in the face!
you can’t get rid of noobs, everyone has to start somehow. anyway, mp3scener, if you don’t know enough about it, don’t talk like this. I wouldn’t wonder finding you getting your shitty webripped mp3 off kazaa
To all FXP , P2P , Torrent Kiddies :
Thx a lot for publish the Scene Work from the Real Scene into Public !
Thats why the GVU has reasons and points to Bust the Real Scene who whant’s not that the Scene Releases go Public ..
What the hell were they doing in Poland??
becoz Poland is a thief’s country ;]
the answer is European Union… these countries out of it are now safer than members.
they went where sites were.
REloaded is not died
death to the scene! torrent shall rules!
u R teh Noob. =/
we share because we care. fuck the police!
hah fbi, ur a dick n00b, where do u think the stuff comes from before it goes to torrents u dick go eat some shit!
this is bollocks just cause we cant afford to buy everthing new we rls it and let other groups have it as we can download there stuff!
I feell really bad n sorry for the groups!
and what is that picture the link dont work any other links plz!
TO ALL : POLICE , FBI FUCKING DIKEDS WHO EVER U ARE, U ARE TRU CUNTS U WACSTEMANS!
omg omg gay popo!
damm i had a feeling something like this was going to happen very soon.
Aslong as deviance, reloaded, and mirror remain in the scene and spread there knowledge (and tools) then the scene shall remain strong.
Groups are soon replaced, yes indeed, but the knowledge and sort after tools are for ever lost, this is the worst part.
hoodlum was a big enough blow, reloaded/deviance/mirror would see the death to great releases.
People hate clones, but imo if you look at the angle of which mirror are takeing and there morals, emulation may be the way of the future.
Reloaded are still gods, but without them leaves a major hole in cracking.
However i feel reloaded will NEVER get busted, until they choose there retirement and should have by then trained another top quality ‘new’ promising group which will hopefully pop up soon.
It would appear with all the major hits in the last 2 years (being that it involves 10+ groups all the time) that they are merely takeing out the top end bistros and fastrate file distribution servers and ftps, those that have access to these and other groups cop severe consequences.
GOOD groups like reloaded hopefully arn’t involved in such shambles.
Movies, Porn, MP3 groups can easily be replaced, game piracy is a majorball game.
thats my 50cents.
death to the scene! torrent shall rules!
I would just like to say that without the scene you wouldn’t have your crap ass torrents!!
GERMAN SC3n3 is one BiG security hole, ban them all, stupid fuckers, its not the first .de bust and not the last, its because all fucking fhx,p2p kiddies are from there, fucking crapiest shit in da scene is from germany…as long as .de scene exists we are insecure1!!!!!
thats my 50cents.
@sc3n3r:
Germany fights against piracy…
not like the other countrys in .eu..
sure there are kiddies out there – and we all hate them..
kiddies are Sec-Holes.. everybody knows..
the bust could have some good things..
the kids are maybe gone!
All Hail to teh scene!!!!!!
Minute of silence for them…
Fuck !
2Sedate, Fool. Without a scene will not be and p2p.
maybe people will start being more security conscience now.. lets see
torrents sucks …warez scene never die!!!!!!!
hm so many sceners on teh web today. you’re cumming out of your dirty lil holes to breath some fresh air, hum ? lol i guess no scene would really surf to rlslog.net to write a silly comment. so stfu fxp kiddies. hmkthxdie.
c u soon on teh speci0l topFsites!!111oneeleven1einsune.
omfg!
kids, wacht auf…
omg dont take it seriously. drink a beer pls. or at least drink a bear. :*
Does this have something to do with it?
“Error: Tracker Response Error:this tracker is for torrents on TPB only in Tracker: http://tv.tracker.prq.to/announce“
now is NOT the right time to hide. raid is over. the right time to hide would have been in the last few weeks/months.
damage is done. wish all busted folks a good lawyer and i hope they will keep their mouth shut. for other folks sake.
rld is not busted kids
so stop whining
These busts happen from time to time. Just relax, everything *will* return to normal within a couple of months, tops.
how can u make a rls group?
The.Settlers.Heritage.of.Kings.Legends.Expansion.Disc-RELOADED
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hah i jus saw that aswell does this mean they are still up ?
Thats an old rls apparently!
nope, reloaded is quite out of business:
[19:55:15](GAMES) The Settlers Heritage of Kings Legends Expansion Disc RELOADED (RELOADED)
[20:16:16](Nuke) The.Settlers.Heritage.of.Kings.Legends.Expansion.Disc-RELOADED ›› stolen.groupname (Nuke)
[20:17:45] (UnNuke) The.Settlers.Heritage.of.Kings.Legends.Expansion.Disc-RELOADED ›› old.release.by.reloaded (UnNuke)
well, to be honest, its not really clear, and theres lots of rumors.
Zurueck.nach.Dalarna.DVDRiP.MD.German.SVCD-AOE
hehe… fuck the gvu!
DIS IS MWADDD SOME RUSTA CLAT SORT DIS OUT IMEDIATE ! DER BAIT !
(19:05:11) (+QTec) [PRE] :: [N/A] :: Torino 2006 RELOADED
RELOADED cant be dead. not to mention the release has not been nuked yet
The Scene will never die, you may have captured some of us. But the rest of us remain, we are multiplying a great rates….THE SCENE AGE IS NEAR….BEWARE!!!!!
Shouts out to all the real sceners out there, help us keep it alive, dont give in, keep fighting.
“The perfect society has no government but only an administration, no laws but only obligations, no punishments but means of correction.”
Torino.2006-RELOADED pred 33 Min, 44 Sec ago
Triple.Threat.5-BLUEBALLS pred 4 Hours, 2 Min, 19 Sec ago
Two groups suposedly effected by the raids, its now 1/25/06 5:45pm
Neither have any problem/disturbance. A lot of this is just bullshit.
torrents shall rules the scene!!!
reloaded lives!
Did U see the photos in the GVU’s website…
Nothing stange, looks like old shits…
I repeat, nothing like a releaser cave…
Just like films suppliers…
@YourFather STFU
the scene publish itself, yeah they rant about torrents sites, fxp boards, dcc hubs, even irc and nfos dump sites. but have you ever asked why those sites are full with scene releases? couse the scene leaks itself yeah is full o leakers couse is so easy to get in you just need a 100mb+ box and you are in. nowdays a -sceneban means nothing, today im banned tomorrow im in.
To be honest 300 people raided is fuck all. 30 people arrested is even less. The pictures that have been released on the GVU website show rooms with 30 cd copiers on them, and MASSIVE stacks of cds. This is not scene, this is people making money off the scene’s hard work! Anyone with that kind of equipment has absolutly no reason for it, and those kinds of people can FUCK RIGHT OFF!
Anyone that is sat at home, unaffected by this, but still worrying, then you are playing into the GVU’s hands! You were the real target! Its more important to instill fear in the rest of the scene than these few petty arrests!
Also one little side-bitch to those dissin the ‘kiddies’… these people only want the same as you, access to the data, just because they aren’t lucky enough to have raw knowledge and hookups to the fat downloads doesnt mean they suck. If they piss you off just ignore them!
Wot Is The Gvu’s Website ?
torrents rules
just ignore all these little fuckers ;p
its years before they even come step closer
keep shit private.
and to the pictures there…..
shit like that spreads trouble all over
;>
fbi
January 27th, 2006 | 03:51
torrents rules
pfffffffffffffffff torrents can eat my dick, where u think torrents come from u fkn retard! SCENE PWNS UR GAY ASS
I find it rather puzzeling when i hear people post here calling fxp people ‘kiddies’ by saying that they cleary know nothing about fxp or what it is.
Fxp teams have a far greater technical knowledge than the majority of release groups as they are the ones hacking SQL and getting those releases out there. They are the ones researching in to new vulnerabilites in operating systems, so THEY THE FXP dudes are the ones keeping the scene alive.
Game ISO rls groups i respect but thats it most other release groups just fire up DVD shrink and hit go not exactly leet are they?
imho cracking a starforce protected release is much harder than hacking some stro, and if you would know more about release groups, you couldnt say anything like this… and dvd shrink… nobody uses this, to make a good dvdrip isnt so easy as you think, there are pretty tough rules and so on…
haa, hacking ur sql,iis or ssh boxes
…….same exploits, few techniques…..
ez shit
cracking aint ;>
and its not only cracking, theres much more
think twice before u post dumbass
fxp is 4th-5th in the table if it comes to the warez scene
‘fxp dude’
Cracking isn’t hard is just like a rubix cube its not coding not nearly as advanced.
If you think finding vulnerabilities in a OS is easy then you don’t know what your talking aobut.
ya all g0nna d13!
aLL hAiL t3H nIggA !!!!!!!!!!!
This isnt linked to the busts today 08/06/06, this was posted back in january.
FUCKWiTS
Yup, sucks to see good people go.
Fucking Tragety, BTW after several DMA takedown notices using Torrents I have decided torrents fucking blow since the .gov can still find all ur lamers using it. We need a waste revival, Viva la Onion and Scene
Thanks for the cool post!
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