Movie association corruption
The international Motion Picture Association was raided by police. Similar to the Swedish anti-P2P group Svenska Antipiratbyrån, GVU engaged in corrupt activity to entrap P2P users.
"The German anti-piracy association GVU, amongst others, the anti-piracy arm of the International Motion Picture Association (MPA), was itself subject to a large-scale raid on FTP-Servers used for distributing Movies in the Warez-Scene," says Julian Finn on zeiTspuk, quoting Heise.
"Two independent sources gave heise.de information, that the GVU had been giving the admin of a 'warez'-site money and hardware to get the IP-adresses and other logged information," states the post, going on:
"According to the article, even illegal copies themselves were provided."
The GVU confirmed police "had been in the Hamburg-Office" to "to verify the information that was provided in order to stage the raids," says zeiTspuk.
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