German Anti-Piracy Action: FileSharing Site Closed, Arrests Made

February 24, 2012 by
Filed under: Announcements & Events, File-Sharing Programs, Networks & Services, Legal P2P News & Issues 

Skyload.net shut down, operators arrested

The hunt for filesharing websites is acute both in US and Europe. Recently German media has been reporting the shutting down of a major file locker site in the country – Skyload.net.

Reports say that the termination action was led by Dresden Attorney General’s office following a complaint filed by GVU, Germany’s copyright agency. The action included the arrest of Skyload’s operators who have been accused of uploading more than 10,000 movies to Kino.to with which they collaborated via a paid affiliate program.

Dresden Attorney General’s office conducted the shutdown in response to a complaint led by that country’s copyright agency, GVU.its operators arrested.

According to TorrentFreak, German authorities have arrested “Maik P”, probably Maik Pätzold, owner of the Skyload.net domain; and “Marcel E”, presumably Marcel Edler, who is listed with Pätzold as a contact for Skyload.net’s hosting provider, Virtuell-host.de (which is also currently offline).

At the end of last year, as part of probably the largest European anti-piracy operation, the 27-year-old administrator of movie streaming portal Kino.to (which was then shut down) received a sentence of 3 years in prison following charges of criminal copyright infringement.

According to authorities, after Kino.to’s termination, Skyload.net carried on the uploading, using this time other sites such as KinoX.to.

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