Military Intelligence Used to Shutdown BitTorrent Site

According to Zataz (in French) and Torrentfreak via The Inquirer, the French military moved to close down a large Bit Torrent tracker in what is the first recorded use of a nation's armed forces under the control of the entertainment industry.

French police arrested 10 members of the site's staff and seized more than 20 servers after the military assisted in locating them.

This week police and anti-piracy groups moved to close down a very large BitTorrent tracker. With 250,000 users, Snowtigers was possibly the largest French tracker. According to reports, police arrested 10 members of staff and seized more than 20 servers, after the military assisted in locating the operators.

A representative of the French anti-piracy organisation ALPA confirmed that it had "worked very closely with the military" to locate the semi-private site.

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