Police raids Share-online.biz, takes it offline
Share-Online.biz, the largest file hosting site operated in Germany, has shut down following raids as part of a copyright-violation investigation, reported TorrentFreak. The investigation was jointly carried out by the prosecutor’s office in Cologne and the police in the city of Aachen.
For those unaware, Share-Online.biz was a popular file hosting platform with an average of 10 million monthly users that had hosted millions of files on several hundred servers. It allowed unregistered users to upload video and music content up to 1GB, while premium account users were allowed to upload up to 2GB for each file.
On October 16, numerous commercial and residential properties in the Netherlands, in France and in Germany were searched and “extensive evidence” was secured. One such raided locations was an unnamed Dutch data center that was operated by a commercial data center provider, where the allegedly pirated content was apparently stored.
While no arrests have been made, three unnamed suspects aged 40, 48, and 54 are believed to have operated the “file-sharing” platform and “aided the unauthorized commercial exploitation of works protected by copyright.”
“The main culprit for the operation of the platform has been renting ever-increasing server capacities since the year 2010 – most recently in the double-digit petabyte range – to a Dutch provider,” said Aachen Police in a press release statement. “Through the operation of the platform, the accused should have generated in the period from April 2008 to October 2017, a turnov ..
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