IFPI takes control of LimeTorrents hard drives without trial or through laws

Difficult to evaluate the latest action taken by the IFPI , an organization representing the recording industry worldwide. No judgments, no demands and no commission or public authority to approve the action, the organization has taken control of the hard disks of the tenth largest BitTorrent index in terms of traffic, LimeTorrents . How? pressing and threatening ServerConnect with legal action by serving a site from the perspective of the organization commits crimes.

LimeTorrents had managed to capture an important gap from the time of its launch last summer, resulting in the final statistics from 2010 placed in the tenth position in terms of traffic.

As counted at TorrentFreak , this new movement of the industry could be connected to the Internet for Black , another host service that housed The Pirate Bay . Right now being debated in the Swedish appeals court the opportunity to blame Black Internet to be responsible for the activities of The Pirate Bay.

Based on the threat of what might happen in the previous case, IFPI was contacted with ServerConnect to threaten legal action if not "ceded" LimeTorrents hard drives.

As said earlier, what ended up happening was that without a court involved, police or any public authority, the organization responsible for ensuring the record, threatened and finally got all the index data P2P , provided by ServerConnect.

The site stopped working two months ago and until today do not know why. Now, after this time, it uncovers a more to be added to the long list of threats and pressure being exerted by the entertainment industry throughout the network map. In this case, no law even in the hand on which to rely.

IFPI takes control of LimeTorrents hard drives without trial or by laws written in ALT1040 April 29, 2011-jorge miguel
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