Taiwanese police have shut down a website in Taiwan suspected of pirating movies by uploading them to its servers and making them available to users of a P2P (peer-to-peer) file-sharing network.
Authorities confiscated servers and arrested the site administrator of Heymovie.com and one user in a series of raids, the MPA (Motion Picture Association) said late yesterday, alleging that the site facilitated the illegal distribution of pirated movies.
But the raid failed to nab a Taiwanese P2P website that the MPA has been after for years, EZpeer.com, despite claims in an MPA news release (click here to read it as a PDF) that the company’s website was shut down. The industry organisation did not return calls seeking comment on the apparent error.
In fact, Ezpeer.com remains open. The company declined to comment on what action police took in their visit to its offices, but spokesman Robin Chen said its music file sharing software service remains open. A quick tour of the Ezpeer site revealed users could still download its filesharing software.
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