SGAE illegally raids house
by Derek.Yang on 29/05/09 at 2:08 pm
Music piracy is on the rise and the recording industry has taken the fight into their own hands outside of the court on several occasions. Hosting P2P links is not illegal in Spain but that didn’t stop the Anti-Piracy group SGAE from showing up at the house of the operator of a P2P link hosting page. 26 year old Juan Jose Carrasco Colonel is a student who resides with his parents and runs the site. When 5 mysterious individuals showed up at his door handing him a piece of legalese and demanding entry, he complied thinking they were police and the paper was a warrant. As it turns out, the people had no law enforcement affiliations and were in fact members of SGAE. They searched multiple computers in his home, and after a friend told Colonel to kick them the hell out of his house, tried to confiscate some hard drives. Now I understand the plight of anti-piracy groups mainly from the artists who have their work stolen but come on people! These anti-piracy groups just don’t know when to stop or at least change tactics.
-Derek
[Source: Torrentfreak]
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