raids

What.cd, an invite-only music torrent tracker, has shut down yesterday, following a report in French media of police raids. The website, founded in 2007 and with an estimated database of 3 million torrents, was more than a music piracy portal, but also a recommendation engine and a place...

Operation Trident consisted of 1,874 raids which resulted in the seizing of nearly 5 million pirated discs and the arrest of 870 people during a two-month anti-piracy operation. The large-scale operation targeted pirate production facilities, pirated optical discs from street vendors, retail...