info: Submitted by Solana on Thu, 2006-06-08 22:30.
Earlier today, at 9:00 am CST, the summer hunting season for the MPAA officially began. With their first shot, or more accurately, the FBI's first shot, the MPAA reported information that has led to 4 topsites being shut down, and forcing several others offline. Several FBI officers took down 7-8 boxes hosted by Layered Tech, and later on busted servers hosted by Server Matrix.
At the moment, the impact on the Scene seems to be a big one, affecting groups including DiAMOND, SAGA, FLAMES, TBE, and NBP. There are additional rumors of other groups being affected and shut down.
In total, 18-20 boxes were raided, with hundreds of terabytes of data stored in total, 4 topsites were shut down directly because of the actions of the FBI, and the number of other sites that were slowed down, or shut down on their own, is not known. In response to the busts, several people in the scene are urging people to abandon using Layered Tech and Server Matrix to use as seedboxes, fearing it is only a matter of time until they are noticed taken down.
The same people are now urging the Scene to get more secure, citing busts from last year and the year before as examples of why additional security is needed to prevent releases from being leaked to P2P.
Original .nfo file can be downloaded/viewed here:
http://wiredfire.org/files/raid.nfo
http://wiredfire.org/files/images/nfo.jpg
***Updated News***
A more recent nfo account has surfaced on the scene giving a colourful account of a member receiving a visit form 2 officers, wiredfire cannot verify the validity of this nfo as yet but has decided publishing to allow the reader to make up their own mind, the author is not just a scene member but also a torrent site admin:
http://wiredfire.org/files/nfo2.nfo
http://wiredfire.org/files/images/nfo2.jpg
It also remains unclear which groups have for sure been apprehended but most famous of them seems to be the software release group XISO, WiredFire is monitoring the situation to keep you informed.
WiredFire will bring more details to you as they become clear.
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