Torrentbits.ro Closed, Staff Arrested.

[Guest Evilblade]

During February to April 2007 officers of the DGPMB-Fraud Investigation Service with officers of the General Directorate of Intelligence and Internal Protection have developed a complex information-operative activities on the establishment and operation of a site type "torrent" , as the www.torrentbits.ro which were made available to site members, numbering about 16,000, movies, music, games, applications and pirated software, run the file size by organizer site, is over gigabites 18,000.

On 05/03/2007, police officers from the General Directorate of Bucharest Police - Fraud Investigation Service, in collaboration with officers from the Criminal Research Services and Rapid Intervention Police and Prosecutor's Office under the supervision of the Bucharest Court , conducted a search at Bucharest, str Provision No. 22, sector 3, where he lives called GINA SERBAN ADRIANA, 38 years and its husband, BOIOGLU PAUL, 37 years old, administrators of the site previously mentioned, during which was identified server that was hosting the site in question, other 3 computers that were used for copying movies, subtitles and posting achieve on their Internet address mentioned and recorded 5130 pirated DVDs with movies, music and games, results and used in this work, all worth about 210,000 Ron, which were built in order to continue research.

From early research showed that those concerned copies of sites outside the country, movies, games and programs that created them and then add subtitles, copy them to DVDs. Also called above , posted these movies also on www.torrentbits.ro site, from where 16,000 users downloaded these pirated files. The benefits resulting from this activity were "collected" in two bank accounts opened by administrators, by way of donation from site members.

Given the complexity of the case and the innovations resulting in phase investigation and management of evidence, it will be going to require the involvement of collective management of copyright, the experts of the Romanian Copyright Office and representatives of holders of copyright being violated by carrying out criminal activity.

In this case it will be performed researches, the authors of the site will be investigated in free state , in terms of committing crimes of "offering, distribution, possession or storage or transport, for distribution of pirated goods", "promotion of pirated goods by any means and in any way , including through public notices or electronic means of communication "," available to the public, including via the Internet or other computer networks, without the consent of holders of rights, the works or delivering products related rights "and" piracy the computer systems of computer programs ".

[phoenix_yuri]

Oh So Bad :(

[John Cena]

Thank you MOTM for this news !