Notice of last week's bookings

Police also spoke today about what happened last Thursday.

Thanks to the Webistan blog, we would now also share the official statement issued by the police in connection with last week’s action last Thursday. Initially, the public would have been informed in the form of a press release, but for some reason the events were only summarized in writing. 

The announcement:

Proceedings against an unknown perpetrator due to a well-founded suspicion of infringement of copyright or copyright-related rights of the Economic Protection Department of the Economic Protection Department of the Budapest Police Headquarters I.

According to the available data, there is a reasonable suspicion that a large amount of illegal content is available on servers accessible on the Internet, the distribution of which is subject to licensing. The server operator did not give permission to the server operator for this activity, so the unknown persons violated the rights of the creators by their behavior, thus causing significant property disadvantage to the rightholders.

The content of the servers could be accessed in such a way that a specific bank account had to be paid thousands of forints, depending on the download period and speed, for which the payer was granted access rights, thus making the illegal content available to him.

On November 2007, 8, investigators conducted house searches at several locations in Budapest and Pest County, which resulted in the seizure of nearly 30 computers and several hard drives.

The exact content and the amount of the property damage caused are currently being determined, however, based on the primary data, the amount of the property damage exceeds the amount of HUF 200 million. So far, in the case of three people, the suspicion of committing a crime has been substantiated, and proceedings have been initiated against them.

For those who still do not understand what it is after reading the communication, we just want to briefly summarize what happened. On November 8, all of a sudden, several file-sharing sites, ftp servers, and smsweb hosting became unavailable. In the evening, the news spread like wildfire that the police had seized several servers during a raid, which included a server with legal content. One by one, the more well-known torrent sites disappeared, causing a lot of panic among the users. Initially, the news was about the reservation of 80, but later only two dozen servers. Information came from several directions about the instigator, some specifically naming one person at a time, while others took the initiative to different organizations.

Over the weekend, moods pretty much calmed down, and file-sharing sites also started to restart pretty slowly. Of course, the total number will not be reached for some time to come, but the fathers of the missing sites promise a quick return. The raid, as it turned out now, was aimed primarily at individuals providing paid content, but it is very likely that this action will not be famous for its success either.

Of course, this little summary above doesn’t cover the events of every single hour and minute, but we hope to provide enough information for those who had no idea about the whole thing. A more detailed account of the events here and here can be accessed by our readers.