June 18th, 2010
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Budapest police seize 50 servers on copyright infringement charges

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Police in Budapest have seized 50 computer servers with 500 terabytes of content in several locations in the capital after copyright foundations alerted the authorities to illegal file-sharing and distribution activities, police said on Thursday.

According to a statement on the Budapest police headquarters’ website, officers raided several server warehouses, internet service providers and the College of Engineering on Wednesday and took away servers containing a list of the biggest domestic and international file-sharing sites, data and file-sharing enablers.

Several tens of thousands of copyright-protected works had been illegally distributed and published, the statement said.

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  1. Police State says:
    June 18, 2010 at 5:48 pm

    Who’s going to pay for these raids?