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Swedish warez site shut

A massage from the film industry
By Nick Farrell
Tue Sep 27 2005, 09:10
THE MOTION Picture Association (MPA) said that it has managed to shut down a Swedish warez site called "BlueCrap".

The Association claims that it had pirated over 15,000 movies and television episodes. BlueCrap released over 15,000 copyrighted movies and television episodes over the past two years and was one of the top underground pirate servers in Europe, the MPA says.

The server was run by an individual nicknamed "Swemike". MPA claims that it was the exclusive domain of a select group of pirates, including seven well-known movie and television piracy gangs.

Despite this, Swemike turned tail and ran when the MPA wrote him a nasty legal letter.

More at the Sydney Morning Herald, here. µ

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