Külföldi torrent oldalak Online Piracy: Another Success Against Illegal Filesharing!

OpenBT, PublicBT and Istole.it were taken down by German Music Industry!

Another success against a file sharing network: The music industry could obtain that a German provider of Internet servers has now operators a tracker software deprived access to the grid, could spread through the more than 30 million Internet users also copyrighted content among themselves. The so-called BitTorrent trackers with the name "OpenBitTorrent" PublicBittorrent "and" Istole.it "offline so. Together, they managed a day more than 2 billion (illegal) connections.

The managing director of the German Music Industry Association eV (BVMI), Dr. Florian pressures, explained: "Until now, were the subject of copyright infringing use of music especially the operators of BitTorrent search sites in the foreground, a prominent example of such sites is ThePirateBay Our new, slightly extended focus. now includes also other participants in the BitTorrent network, especially the operators of BitTorrent trackers. Without the Tracker, providers and seekers at all connect only to each other, illegally offered content can be found much more difficult, to be in accordance to this success now copyright infringement in the digital domain space more difficult. "

About the operation of BitTorrent networks and trackers

BitTorrent networks allow users not to download a file from a server as a whole, but piecemeal on various other network members. From the items a software finally puts on your home computer together the finished file. If you downloaded via the "BitTorrent" network, in turn, allows frequent other users to obtain on his computer "file fragments" and may also be illegal for uploader copyrighted content.

Central for downloads and uploads files between providers and users within the network are the BitTorrent tracker, coordinate "supply" and "demand". Without the Tracker finding sources and thus downloading protected content is considerably more difficult.

The crackdown on illegal content distribution requires staying power

In the Hamburg firm Rasch lawyers escorted procedures were music companies, the operators of the Tracker (even) be asked in a first step to end its participation in the distribution of copyrighted content. When they did not respond, it took contact with the provider of the Internet server ("Host Provider") on. This put its customers, the operators of the tracker software, a deadline for blocking the torrents. As well, this period expired without result, the servers of its customers switched the hosting provider completely. Within the framework of legal proceedings, the Hamburg Regional Court (Az. 310 O 11/15) the provider also obliged to provide information on its customers. This now threatens civil rights of the rights holders and a criminal case.

As expected, try other smaller Tracker now to fill the gap. A by a German-operated tracker has been shut down in this regard already on 31 March 2015..

Florian pressures: "The unfortunate development in the cross-industry initiative against illegal advertising on sites shows how difficult is the containment of illegal use. It is high time to think about liability in the digital space holistic. "