Police arrest admins of Italian torrent site

Almost two years ago, in the summer of 2008, Italian police raided the premises of Colombo-BT, then one of the largest Italian torrent platforms. The servers were confiscated and the site taken offline, but no arrests were made at the time.

Now, after a long investigation, six arrests heave been made, reports torrentfreak. Of the six suspects, two are believed to be admins and four, including one German, are considered associates. All six are charged with crimes in relation to copyright infringement and could hear sentences demanded of several years in prison.

The investigation revealed that Colombo-BT hosted over 36.000 torrent files that were downloaded over 580 million times.

26 March 2010