MPA's (MPA is the movie studios' international association, in which, the American MPAA is also member of) Icelandic arm, called SMAIS, has raided 12 major P2P users in the small Nordic country. According to SMAIS's press release, some of the raided users had over 2.5 terabytes (1T == 1,024 gigabytes) of pirated material in their possession when busted.

Iceland, a country with population of just over 290,000, has the highest percentage of Net-connected households in the world -- 79% of homes are connected to the Internet. But as isolated as the country is, the P2P raids seem to have sent immediate shockwaves across the country: according to SMAIS's announcement, country's total Internet traffic dropped by a whopping 40 percent after the raids.

In its raids, movie industry targeted only users using extremely popular DC++/Direct Connect file sharing network. Users' computers and various DVD-R/CD-R media were confiscated in the raids.

what can be done to fight those MPA basta*ds? I live in Iceland and I?m so furios over this raid. The police went in during the night arresting teenagers, dragging them out in handcuffs. Common, I mean those are not the criminals I want the police, whom I pay for through my taxes, to go after. We also have such a stupid system regarding international downloading. If you live here you have to pay almost 4 cents for each MB you download from outside the country. That is in my oppinion a rip off and therefore users have started DC++ rings here so they can download locally.

The police became a member of those group ( undercover ofcourse ) and logged the usage for the last couple of months and got everybodys IP addresses and so on. I really want to take some action but I?m not sure what to do. At least I won?t buy a cd for quite awhile.