Pirates of the 65 terabyte server
This is not the server in question, just an example of a 10-tray server.
Giant server seized in raid on file-sharing site
Swedish police find computer with 65 terabytes of files
STOCKHOLM – Police have made a major crackdown on illegal file-sharing by seizing a giant computer server during an apartment raid in a Stockholm suburb, an official said Saturday.
Henrik Ponten, a spokesman at the Swedish Anti-Piracy Bureau, said the server contained about 65 terabytes of files, corresponding to around 16,000 full-length movies.
“The size of the works are gigantic,” he said, noting it was one of the biggest pirate server confiscations ever in Sweden.
Police raided the apartment in Brandbergen, in southern Stockholm, in the beginning of February after the anti-piracy bureau filed a report about it, he said.
Ponten said one suspect had been questioned by police, but was released shortly afterward since the confiscation was the main objective of the raid.
“Basically he admitted he was in charge of it (the server),” he said.
According to Ponten, the server is part of an international pirate network called “The Scene,” providing users of Internet file-sharing sites such as Sweden’s The Pirate Bay with extensive access to copyright protected material.
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29566891/
My comment: “The horse is already out of the barn” on this topic. For those of you who aren’t familiar with folksy aphorisms, that means that once a door is open and the contained animal (file) has escaped, it will be very difficult to find, capture, restrain, and put it back into safety and close the door.
That door has no locks except encryption which is now mostly used for only very sensitive documents and files. Witness the file-sharing accident (?) that gave the Iranians the plans and schematics for our President’s new helicopter. (See my blog of 3/01/09) Notice that we haven’t heard any more news on that subject yet.
Many bloggers are ‘guilty’ of violating copyright rules. (See above.) We aggregators use some copyrighted articles, but my uses are benign since I make no money from the content of this site and I actually may lead more viewers to the original site. (Very tiny amount—this is still a wee blog, 150 people per day… so please send my blog URL to your friends!)
Copyright violations? Pirated and resold creative works cost artists and their distributors billions of dollars in lost potential revenue every year. It’s a growth industry with solutions not yet in place. Any comments?
