Torrentbits.ro Raided by the Romanian Police

Torrentbits is a private BitTorrent tracker with over 16.000 members, mostly
Romanians. The admins, both citizens from the Romanian capital Bucharest
were arrested Thursday morning.

The 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 the attention of the police officers.


A 2 month investigation lead the police to an apartment in Bucharest where
they arrested the two 40-year old admins. In addition they seized 4 computers
and 5,200 cds and DVDs, some of which contained copyrighted material. This
indicates that the two were not only running Torrentbits, but that they were also
selling pirates CDs and DVDs.

The two were released from custody Thursday afternoon, but are charged with
copyright infringement, and both face 4 years in jail and a $10.000 fine. A video
clip that shows the raid is posted in this Romanian news article.


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