French Release Group CiNEFOX Busted - Three Members Arrested
The scene is generally known to be a tough nut to crack for the copyright police, but for one group, their time may be up. A French report suggests that three members of Cinefox, a French movie release group, was recently arrested.
On the heels of the news that France is formally mulling a three strike policy for online users, one of the French movie scene releasers was busted.
The French news site 01Net reported the news (French - English Google translation) recently.
According to the report, the arrests came when French anti-piracy outfit ALPA (Association against audiovisual piracy) made a complaint. The people that were arrested, judging by the report, were the site-ops for the group. The report also says that CineFox was the first group to release French version of X-Men 3, Jumper, 10,000 BC and Mission Impossible 3.
From the report (Google Translation)
"We are in a true case of an organized gang with ramifications on a global scale," he adds. Dozens of servers in France, the Netherlands are concerned, containing thousands of gigabytes of data counterfeit. "We are very far from collectors of films, new enthusiasts. The main driver of these groups is clearly money. An investigator said that without them, forums, boards [as Oleoo closed by the same service a few days ago, Ed] would not exist."
All this underground economy and illegal generates money ... and creates twisted coups between different "teams". The competition seems to be ruthlessly on the network of networks. "Warez scene is rotten by money tells us a source, which is a part. The dirty tricks are legion, here still a great show."
Cinefox would be dropped due to a document circulated by a competitor in August 2007, a text file containing information on counterfeiters: servers, IP, nicks pirates and their accomplices ... A valuable document for investigators, who have been traced to officials of the group. A task is not simple.
"They can still catch two or three, said a member of warez, but today it is increasingly difficult to find us. We commend servers abroad - Estonia, the USA in hosting Layered or in the Czech Republic - the information is hidden on different servers. Our connections are encrypted SSL. "
The report also suggests that another scene release group known as Carnage have quit the scene as a result of the recent bust.
The scene is generally known to be a tough nut to crack for the copyright police, but for one group, their time may be up. A French report suggests that three members of Cinefox, a French movie release group, was recently arrested.
On the heels of the news that France is formally mulling a three strike policy for online users, one of the French movie scene releasers was busted.
The French news site 01Net reported the news (French - English Google translation) recently.
According to the report, the arrests came when French anti-piracy outfit ALPA (Association against audiovisual piracy) made a complaint. The people that were arrested, judging by the report, were the site-ops for the group. The report also says that CineFox was the first group to release French version of X-Men 3, Jumper, 10,000 BC and Mission Impossible 3.
From the report (Google Translation)
"We are in a true case of an organized gang with ramifications on a global scale," he adds. Dozens of servers in France, the Netherlands are concerned, containing thousands of gigabytes of data counterfeit. "We are very far from collectors of films, new enthusiasts. The main driver of these groups is clearly money. An investigator said that without them, forums, boards [as Oleoo closed by the same service a few days ago, Ed] would not exist."
All this underground economy and illegal generates money ... and creates twisted coups between different "teams". The competition seems to be ruthlessly on the network of networks. "Warez scene is rotten by money tells us a source, which is a part. The dirty tricks are legion, here still a great show."
Cinefox would be dropped due to a document circulated by a competitor in August 2007, a text file containing information on counterfeiters: servers, IP, nicks pirates and their accomplices ... A valuable document for investigators, who have been traced to officials of the group. A task is not simple.
"They can still catch two or three, said a member of warez, but today it is increasingly difficult to find us. We commend servers abroad - Estonia, the USA in hosting Layered or in the Czech Republic - the information is hidden on different servers. Our connections are encrypted SSL. "
The report also suggests that another scene release group known as Carnage have quit the scene as a result of the recent bust.
