Big news coming out of Sweden this weekend:
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.
It has been my understanding that Sweden has been pretty lenient towards file-sharing in the past. Sounds like those days are over.
The curious thing is if and how much this will affect sites like ThePirateBay.org and IsoHunt.com. In theory, it shouldn’t affect them at all. But I guess we’ll know for sure in the next few weeks.
