Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/21/german_cops_kill_skyload/
File sharing arrests move to Germany
Skyload.net gone, operators arrested
Posted in Law, 21st February 2012 23:34 GMT
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German-language news sites and blogs are reporting that file locker site Skyload.net has been shut down and its operators arrested.
According to Germany’s Netzwelt [1] (‘Networld’), the Dresden Attorney General’s office conducted the shutdown in response to a complaint led by that country’s copyright agency, GVU.
Skyload.net is accused of having uploaded more than 10,000 movies to Kino.to under a paid affiliate program.
According to Telekom-Presse, the arrest and shutdown took place last week (bad Google translation here [2]). That post also compares Skyload.net and Kino.to as having a model similar to the more famous file-locker shutdown, Megaupload.
TorrentFreak reports [3] that the German authorities have arrested “Maik P”, probably Maik Pätzold, owner of the Skyload.net domain; and “Marcel E”, presumably Marcel Edler, who is listed with Pätzold as a contact for Skyload.net’s hosting provider, Virtuell-host.de (which is also currently offline).
The authorities say that after Kino.to was shut down, Skyload.net continued its uploading activities, switching to alternative sites like KinoX.to. ®
Links
- http://translate.google.com.au/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.netzwelt.de%2Fnews%2F90969-skyload-net-mutmasslicher-betreiber-verhaftet.html&act=url
- http://translate.google.com.au/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.telekom-presse.at%2FFilehoster_Skyload_stillgelegt.id.18883.htm&act=url
- http://torrentfreak.com/police-raid-file-hosting-site-arrest-operator-and-isp-120221/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Torrentfreak+(Torrentfreak)&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher