Police in as many as 14 European countries have raised suspected file-sharing servers/admins, according to TorrentFreak and Ars Technica. Sweden appears to have seen the most raids, but other countries involved include the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Hungary, Belgium, Norway, Germany and the UK. Details are scarce on exactly what happened, but it seems the raids may have been focused more on movies than music – and that several people have been arrested. A note of controversy was injected when one of the companies raided – hosting service PRQ – turned out to be one of the hosts of the Wikileaks site. However, this appears to be a co-incidence.
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