2 Romanian tracker owners arrested by police

Organized Crime police officers arrested Thursday morning 2 Romanian citizens form Bucharest, that were running a torrent tracker with 16.000 members, mostly Romanians.
After a 2 months investigation, police and D.A. officers search an apartment in Bucharest (Romania’s capital), were they arrested 2 40-year old persons and seized 4 computers and 5,200 cds and DVDs. The two were released in the afternoon, but are charged with copyright infringement, punished with 2 to 4 years or 10.000$ fine.
Police said the tracker was one year old, but for the last 6 months the administrators have been asking for donations and running ads on the site, which attracted attention.
The domain hasn’t been seized (yet).

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digg.com staff, prisoners

That’s what Kevin Rose and teh rest of the staff at digg.com are.
If they delete the stories with the hd-dvd decryption key, they will lose users. If they let them, MPAA will sue them.
Simple as that.

It seems Rose has already made a decision, explaining in a blog post they will let the stories and fight the consequences.

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