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.
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.
It’s the same logic where the US government would film agents smashing alcohol bottles and illegal distilleries during prohibition then playing the footage at movie theaters and such. It wasn’t about efficacy,it was about sending a message/keeping up appearances and hoping that it will scare other people away from doing it.
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