Catch ‘em all!

Romanian police is determined to exterminate the peer-to-peer file sharing networks. This is their first action in the Gramophone Operation, as they called this “large scale intervention”. You’ll see now how large this scale was.

At 10 o’clock in the morning of a sunny summer day, a peaceful old man heard somebody ringing at his door. There were some police officers, with a search warrant. He let them in, they asked him about drugs or weapons, he told them that he has only some cigarettes and coffee.
Then the officers wanted to see his computer, they sealed it and took it away, telling him that his crime was that he had a 350Gb share of music. The poor guy is now on court for trial. He admits that not knowing the law is not an excuse and he is ready to take the consequences of his criminal act.

Meanwhile, nothing happened with the file sharing networks owners, all the hubs are functioning just fine, while the users are all asking themselves when will the police ring to their doors to take their computers away.

Does it look like the government really wants to eradicate piracy? It doesn’t seem to me at all, since all the guys who make nice money out of this business are well and healthy, writing and selling millions of copies of pirate CDs and DVDs.

I know this has nothing to do with tips and tricks, but I felt the urge to tell the world what is happening here.