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Police raid Polish file-sharing forum
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 17 February 2010
Police in Poland last Friday raided a number of homes believed to be related to the running of an Oink-style illegal file-sharing forum, arresting three people.
A 21 year old computer studies student and two teenagers, aged sixteen and seventeen, are suspected of operating the site. Three other locations, thought to be the homes of members of the forum, were searched as part of the raid, which was conducted in conjunction with the Foundation For The Protection Of Audiovisual Creativity.
Although police are yet to officially confirm the name of the site in question, TorrentFreak reports that it was Filmowisko, which boasted over 30,000 members and was taken offline around the time of the raid. As its name suggests, that community had a movie sharing bias. Six computers and 150 DVDs and CDs were reportedly seized during the raid.
The 21 year old and seventeen year old have now been released and face charges of copyright infringement, which carries a prison sentence of up to five years in Poland. The sixteen year old was apparently detained for longer, and will be dealt with by the family courts.
