Shareconnector.com Closed by Dutch Authorities

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ShareConnector.com has been closed by the Dutch FIOD. (dutch link). In addition to that, the MPAA prepares to crackdown on servers. (text requires free registration - sorry about that - it basically says that they want to take action against pirate indexing servers (= all of them heh ?) in the ed2k and BitTorrent networks)
Oh, and the polish site osiolek.pl is currently redirecting to a non-ed2k site and has temporarily been removed from the linklist.
Thanks go out to the news posters!

http://www.nu.nl/news.jsp?n=455650&c=54

paul-scream22 · **Posted:** Tue Dec 14, 2004 6:18 pm **Post subject:**

Bugger!!!!!!!

They clamping down hard now on ed2k :evil:

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Tue Dec 14, 2004 6:23 pm **Post subject:**

Servers too they've announced, ed2k and bit torrent.
Make sure your conscience is clear, or run away.... for frodo! :lol:

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Tue Dec 14, 2004 6:37 pm **Post subject:**

badm wrote:

Another news article, basically the same, but might shed some light on the reason they think they have a case (the selling of illegal dvd's?)

http://www.nu.nl/news.jsp?n=455650&c=54

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IOD-ECD throws internetpages offline

Submitted 14th of December 2004 15:58

The Hague - The FIOD-ECD closed down 2 Dutch internet pages on tuesday. The pages offered links to illegal copies of movies, games and music. On 9 spots in the Netherlands computers, servers and administration were seized. The police carried out a total of 8 arrests.

According to the police the Dutch pages shareconnector.com and releases4u.com hosted thousands of links to files for approximately 40.000 members and a multitude of users. Several suspects were part of the exchange network DVD Europe that offers movies, games and music illegaly, often even before the legal store release date, according to the police.

Earlier the police and justice departments in Germany and Switzerland closed down similar sites. It's the first time sites like these are taken down in Holland.

wargand · **Posted:** Tue Dec 14, 2004 7:05 pm **Post subject:**

Hey Spud, don't you want to go link free soon?

See No Evil · **Posted:** Tue Dec 14, 2004 7:09 pm **Post subject:**

ah bugger!

i never registered at filehaven.org and their not taking new members, wheres the next best forum anyone?

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Tue Dec 14, 2004 7:21 pm **Post subject:**

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Investigation agency FIOD (FIOD-ECD, tax and economic crimes police) closes large edonkey sites

Tuesday, december 14th 2004 - After complaints from Brein, the FIOD has seized the server that run the edonkey sites Releases4u and Shareconnector.

Tuesday morning the fiscal investigation agency FIOD-ECD seized 4 servers in Rotterdam that hosted the 2 biggest edonkey sites in Holland, Brein has declared. In 9 places a total of 8 people were arrested and 11 computers were seized.

Releases4U and ShareConnector offered links to illegal files that were checked for content and quality, especially the latest movies, games, music and other content. Brein had been talking with the people behind these sites for a while now, but these talks yielded no results. "Our patience was up, after which we went to the authorities", says Tim Kuik, director of Brein. According to him this is the first in a series of moves against "services that play an essential role in the exchange of illegal files".

These files aren't offered from the abovementioned sites itselfm but are hosted on the computers of the users of p2p service edonkey. "Illegal files in good quality are often hard to find", says Brein.

"Not Illegal"

The 8 persons were arrested for suspicion of committing copyright infringement and accessory to that crime.
SC and R4U offered about 10.000 links to illegal files for about 50.000 registered users, and a multitude of that of consumers. The people behind the sites told Webwereld a while ago that there is nothing illegal about so called ed2k links.

The hostingprovider of the 2 sites, Mindlab, earlier refused to take down the 2 sites. "As long as offering these links is not a crime, we will let them run their sites", Zefanja Nafzger declared to Webwereld earlier.

Millions in damages

The damage of this kind of illegal practice can reach significant amounts, Kuik says. He points out that the owner of the site Film88.com recently was convicted to paying $23,8 million in damages. Brein will hold not only SC and R4U responsible for the damages, but also Mindlab, the provider. Kuik estimates the damages sought to be "several millions (of Euros)".

Besides that the OM (prosucutor's office) is likely to start a criminal procedure against the site owners. The maximum penalty is 4 years in prison, according to Kuik.
Kuik says that services like SC and R4U hide behind "false reasoning that illegal files are actually hosted on different servers and that the actual exchange doesn't take place on their own servers". "However, it is clear they are the ones responsible for the illegal spreading of these files", Brein concludes.

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i never registered at filehaven.org and their not taking new members, wheres the next best forum anyone?

Precisely the rational behind it closing I'm afraid, refugees were never wanted, it isn't anything like a big archive site but that got confused some time ago so they voted to close registration.

d0c · **Posted:** Tue Dec 14, 2004 7:55 pm **Post subject:**

paul-scream22 wrote:

Bugger!!!!!!!

They clamping down hard now on ed2k :evil:

damn!!! i want dvd-r releases before its to late...

i wonder when this shit will close down hhah??...

d0c · **Posted:** Tue Dec 14, 2004 8:00 pm **Post subject:**

See No Evil wrote:

ah bugger!

i never registered at filehaven.org and their not taking new members, wheres the next best forum anyone?

thank god i regged at fileheaven before they closed the reg....

Chadman · **Posted:** Tue Dec 14, 2004 9:09 pm **Post subject:**

Me, too. Oh, and I'm back after crappy computer problems, in case anyone noticed.

paul-scream22 · **Posted:** Tue Dec 14, 2004 11:40 pm **Post subject:**

Ah the guy that did Samhain!!!

Welcome back!

The muppets you gave to release\/spread it finally did a proper rip :lol:

Daeron · **Posted:** Wed Dec 15, 2004 12:33 am **Post subject:**

SHame one more falling down :cry:

drpoopypantz · **Posted:** Wed Dec 15, 2004 12:41 am **Post subject:**

The dumbest part of all of this is that they aren't ever going to be able to stop us. They are just making it temporarily inconveniant for .000005% of the filesharers out there.

It's like the Drug War in the United States. No reason to fight it, no way to win it, but it's considered important anyway.

:matrix:

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Wed Dec 15, 2004 12:45 am **Post subject:**

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It's like the Drug War in the United States. No reason to fight it, no way to win it, but it's considered important anyway.

Except the US government did loads to fund the drugs too if i'm not mistaken, and I've yet to receive a donation from George Bush or The Mouth of Sauron* for sharing :lol:

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spudthedestroyer wrote:

The Mouth of Sauron ........................................................................ Tony Blair

drpoopypantz · **Posted:** Wed Dec 15, 2004 12:50 am **Post subject:**

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Except the US government did loads to fund the drugs too if i'm not mistaken

I have no doubt that they did. Not to mention we go into Sovereign Nations like many in South America (and now Afghanistan as well) and we spray their crops because we consider certain plants to be "bad".

Don't even get me started. Though it's not better in any other country, thank you very much. And the United States is pretty soft on other nations. Think about the history of Empires in this world of ours.

You think 500 years ago a major, all-powerful empire would pay OPEC for Oil? No, we would just conquer their countries and TAKE the oil. So as much as we suck, we also are pretty awesome.

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