With the creator of one of the oldest public torrent trackers dropped all charges

Not all lawsuits of copyright holders, filed against various torrent trackers and their owners, are successful for the plaintiffs. Of course, right holders have many victories with regard to torrent trackers, and the most revealing such victory can be called the process against ThePirateBay. But there are blunders that have recently become frequent. For example, British prosecutors completely dropped the charges against the creator of FileSoup , the oldest public torrent tracker calling himself TheGeeker. TheGeeker's problems started back in 2009, when the police arrested him.

The lawsuit was filed by the anti-piracy organization FACT, and it was this organization that put the law enforcement officers on the trail of TheGeeker. By the way, the police for a long time tried to find evidence of a violation of TheGeeker law, but nothing was found.
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Despite this, in 2010 a lawsuit was filed against the site’s administration, accusing the owner of the resource and the administration of the torrent tracker for conspiring to violate copyright. In this case, the court used only those materials that were collected by FACT, and the police, as mentioned above, did not find anything (and didn’t really try, it should be noted). After the trial began, the prosecutors had a silly appearance of many problems, trying to answer questions of a purely technical nature. In the end, the court could not even get a normal answer to the question of what relation the specified torrent tracker had to illegal commercial activities.

Let me remind you that during the trial of ThePirateBay administration, prosecutors also failed to answer a number of technical questions, showing complete ignorance in understanding the work of torrent trackers. But this did not prevent the court from accusing the tracker administrators of all mortal sins, awarding the team several years in prison and several million dollars in fines for all.

In this case, the royal prosecutor's office acquitted the creator of FileSoup, removing all charges from the owner and administration of the service. The resource itself continues to work (by the way, as the notorious ThePirateBay).

Via torrentfreak.com