DirectConnect Hub Shutdown By Police

Written by enigmax on March 28, 2007 

Just two days after TorrentFreak reported that a clampdown on file-sharing in Italy was looming, reports suggest that police raids have closed down a major DirectConnect hub, netting equipment and the network’s major uploaders.

After the Public Prosecutor of Brescia issued search warrants to the Italian Fiscal Police (GdF), a raid was carried out against the DirectConnect hub known as Discotequezone, resulting in its shutdown.

The GdF is a force under the control of the Minister of Economy and Finance and is actually a part of the Italy’s Armed Forces. Supported by the Federation Against Music Piracy (FPM) the raids happened at several locations, targeting equipment and four major uploaders. In total, 11 people have been charged with claimed copyright infringement.

Equipment seized includes 5 servers, 16 computers, 27 external hard discs and more than 1000 DVDRs and CDRs, claimed to contain in excess of 5 terabytes of copyright works.

The site’s homepage reports that the server remains active.

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3 Responses

1 Mar 28, 2007 at 15:13 by krinkle

damn all that date going to waste

2 Mar 28, 2007 at 19:56 by Ghost

Though I can’t read Italian, the web page looks like it has some police takedown notice on it.

3 Mar 29, 2007 at 09:21 by enigmax

Yes, looks like the ’server is active’ message on the homepage has gone

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