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).

Posted May 4, 2007
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