The German anti-piracy association GVU, amongst others, the anti-piracy arm of the International Motion Picture Association (MPA), was itself subject to a large-scale raid on FTP-Servers used for distributing Movies in the Warez-Scene today.
At 10:00 this morning, Police searched over 200 locations in Germany, Austria, The Netherlands, Poland and The Czech Republic, seizing 20 servers used for FTP/FXP distribution. According to an
article on the German IT newsticker heise.de, the Hamburg based office of GVU was also subject to this raid. Two independent sources gave heise.de information, that the GVU had been giving the admin of a "warez"-site money and hardware to get the IP-adresses and other logged information. According to the article, even illegal copies themselves were provided. The GVU itself has not given any statement so far, except for confirming that the police had been in the Hamburg-Office "to verify the information that was provided in order to stage the raids".