http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1184608/french-military-closes-bit-torrent-site By Nick Farrell The Inquirer 8 June 2009 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. It seems that the French government used taxpayer funded military personnel to gather information in order to shut down the Snowtigers site. According to Torrentfreak [1], French police arrested 10 members of the site's staff and seized more than 20 servers after the military assisted in locating them. 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. ALPA president Frédéric Delacroix managed to convince the military that SnowTigers was a criminal organisation and therefore the use of spy technology in the hands of the military was warrented to shut it down. [1] http://torrentfreak.com/military-intelligence-used-to-shutdown-250k-user-bittorrent-site-090606/ [...] _____________________________________________ Visit the InfoSec News security bookstore! http://www.shopinfosecnews.orgReceived on Thu Jun 11 2009 - 00:17:26 PDT
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