Recorded decrease in the number of pirated files released, is the US hit by pirated production groups?
At the end of August 2020, the United States arrested and prosecuted members of a prominent pirated production group. Before and after this incident,
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In January 2020, the United States began legal action targeting a person named 'George Bridy'. Bridi is a British resident of the Isle of Wight south of Great Britain and a member of the well-known pirate production group SPARKS.
SPARKS is part of an underground community called ' Warez Scene ' or 'The Scene,' where pirated copies of various copyrighted works such as movies, TV shows, games, music, and e-books were exchanged.
SPARKS's activity is to obtain Blu-ray and DVD of movies and TV programs before the release date, convert it to data and release it, and at least from around 2011, it has been ``important to wholesalers in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and New Jersey. 'False display and omission'.
Britain's arrangements together with the group that forms The Scene, 'GECKO' 'DRONES' 'ROVERS' 'SPLINTERS', was organized and a large scale across Europe on August 25, 2020 (Tuesday) The crackdown was done. Bridi was arrested on Sunday, August 30, in Cyprus, and a major member of the same SPARK was also arrested in Orate, Kansas.
Affected by this series of movements, the number of pirated files released decreased on August 25, when the rumored that there was a crackdown. It was confirmed that there was a crackdown on the 26th of the following day, and the number of publications was further reduced. According to Torrent Freak, the number of files newly released on August 19 before the crackdown was 1944, but it has decreased to 168 after the crackdown.
By genre, the number of TV programs, movies, pornography, anime, etc., has decreased from several hundreds per day to several tens. It seems that games and e-books were not released for the first few days after the crackdown. In addition, the pirated production group TRUMP, which released dozens of contents a day, has not released any files after the crackdown.
In Torrent Freak, along with information that the number of pirated MP3 files released has returned to more than 800 on September 6, 2020 (Sunday), ``Is this measure eradicated pirated editions or will it finally be revived? Will tell you the time.'
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