Usenet group Newsoo raided by the police France

Newsoo The French usenet group got raided and shut down by the police.

This may be just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to actions against “newsgroups”. The main attention nowadays are the peer to peer sharing webpages like thepiratebay or KickAssTorrents, but the old news groups stayed in silence on the background, surviving all the persecution that major sharing webpages have seen.

Unlike Peer to Peer (Torrents) pages, with Newsgroups, you get the files directly from the server, which means much faster transfer speeds and bigger anonymity/higher safety.

I just hope for the best. That this was a single isolated case; and not a change of strategy by the authorities.

To rap this up I will leave you with some parts of the news and the source url so you can visit it and read all the details:

 

A France-based Usenet provider says that his service has been raided and shutdown by the police. The 5,000 user 'Newsoo' service appears to have been a labor of love for its owner, but all data is now in the hands of authorities after he was arrested. A long-standing complaint by anti-piracy outfit SACEM appears to have been the trigger.

 

“I just got back from custody after a search and seizure of Newsoo servers by the judicial police in Strasbourg. I announce therefore that the Newsoo adventure ends immediately and permanently,”

 

“As to the ‘practical’ terms of my custody, rest can be assured. The staff were very courteous, kind and sympathetic, and there were no handcuffs and all that. I’m fine,”

 

According to a Zataz report, the raid targeted 650TB of data and resulted in the seizure of 130 hard disks. One newsgroup connected to the service is said to have held 26 million MP3 files.

 

Source: https://torrentfreak.com/police-raid-usenet-service-arrest-operator-seize-data-160325/

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