France-based BitTorrent site Snowtigers was recently shut down by anti-piracy advocates and France Police Department using Military Intelligence.
According to reports, 10 staffs of the BitTorrent site were arrested while more than 20 computer servers were seized by the police. The operation was conducted after the military helped in pinpointing the location of its operations.
Know for its cheese, fine wines, and romantic sceneries, France have become a haven for “illegal” BitTorrent sites.
Snowtigers, a French company, was also sharing local music and video files, which prompted authorities to final put an end on its operations.
The French police department has made its move on Tuesday, together with the Association against Audiovisual Piracy (ALPA), in a bid to stop further piracy of its cultural heritage.
ALPA has been very vocal on its fight against piracy to the point that it has acquired the services of the military to help them on the case.
ALPA president Frédéric Delacroix said that Snowtigers should be considered by authorities as a criminal organization and should be held liable for violating anti-infringement and anti-piracy laws.
ALPA has focused its fight against the company as the company became one of the major violator of the law.
The group’s president also accused the company of garnering hundreds of thousand of euros for sharing copyrighted materials in its website.
Invitations into the site can be bought through several sources in France for 30 euros while several other file-sharers donate money to the website to get logged in, reports said.
With the arrest of the staffs of Snowtigers, Delacroix said that users can now be questioned and could possibly be held liable along with the other suspects.
He said that heavy users can now be track by looking into the seized servers and can be taken for prosecution.
Delacroix said that the BitTorrent Company is part of an international organization that extends beyond the border of France.