Danish authorities have claimed two new victories in the ongoing battle against online piracy. A 46-year-old man, who allegedly uploaded content to the Danish torrent trackers "SuperBits" and "DanishBytes", was sentenced to nine months in prison. The other defendant, a 48-year-old man, was linked to 'The Scene'. He received a twelve-month sentence for hosting two servers and sharing pirated content in one of the most elusive piracy groups.

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[–] Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Interesting to see arrests still happening towards private trackers. I wonder how the Nordics fares nowadays when it comes to being the Mecca of filesharing, feels like the golden days have passed since long ago.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 20 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I don't understand why nordics would give any fuck about mostly American "IP"

Esp in light of recent US behaviour.

[–] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

According to the article, they were under investigation for over 5 years. I wonder if they would be less willing to open new investigations given recent events.

[–] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The article mentioned Danish language children’s programs specifically. In some countries children’s shows are partially funded by the government, which if that’s the case it’s an insult to the monarchy as well.

[–] Bearbread@lemmy.wtf 1 points 4 days ago

No because those program are free to watch. The kind of like bbc. The only barrier for outsiders is the language.

[–] max_dryzen@mander.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Uncle Sam has ways of making other jurisdictions discover they have fux to give. Bulgaria is a good example from recent years. Other countries are better at containing him on the copyright question eg Australia, Canada, Netherlands, etc

[–] florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

Share your direct ip address with strangers and hope they all pinky promised the private tracker that they are real pirates /s

[–] jbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

These are private trackers, right?

[–] VonReposti@feddit.dk 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, except of course The Scene. IIRC only two of the mentioned trackers still exist today.

[–] jbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Surprised the authorities would go after users of a private tracker, seems like a low impact area compared to public trackers or even pirate movie streaming sites.

[–] max_dryzen@mander.xyz 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Says one of two things - either the guys opsec was comically sloppy and nailing him was free real estate, or getting this particular target was personal and thus the investigation got much more resources allocated than normal. Most LEO orgs (and prosecutors) just want to check the box that says YES we have successfully pwned 1 IP "criminal" in the past 1300 days, now let us continue harassing single mothers and busting drug labs in peace