Nine peer-to-peer file-sharing sites have been shut down in recent weeks following efforts by the Dutch anti-piracy group Brein. These include the Dutch sites ambachtor.org, bubbles-torrents.nl, flowtorrents.org and extremepowerfreaks.org. Together they had 35.000 and offered around 2800 torrents.
This week Dutch anti-piracy foundation BREIN took down another illegal P2P site: dsb-tracker.org. This Dutch language Bittorrent site offered torrent links to popular films, music, games and software to 8,300 registered users.
The site operator had been put on notice by BREIN but continued its illegal activities. BREIN then demanded the sites hosting provider, Leaseweb, take down dsb-tracker.org, a move which led to the operator taking it down himself. This operator was also owner of the illegal site dsb-scene.org which was also put on notice by BREIN.
BREiN executes structural civil law enforcement against illegal P2P sites and over the past 15 months 131 sites that facilitated around 1.6 million users were taken down.
