The fight against piracy in Ukraine: the removal of servers fs.to and closing ex.ua
2 days after the cyberpolice of Ukraine servers of the largest service in the CIS with access to pirated content - FS.to (aka brb.to, fs.ua and cxz.to) - was withdrawn by Ukraine’s cyberpolice , as reported today by its closure and EX. ua (another large file sharing) .
As stated in the official report on the website of the Ukrainian Cyber ​​Police Department , the case against FS.to was initiated as a result of the appeal of the Motion Picture Association of America (Motion Picture Association of America).
In the course of carrying out operational search activities and investigative actions, the police established involvement in the work on the service of 19 people who created and were engaged in filling and maintaining the activity of the resource. Foreign (including offshore) and a number of Ukrainian companies were separately identified, through whose accounts the funds received from the activities of the FS group’s resources were legalized. According to experts and rightholders, the income from the work of the service was tens of millions of hryvnias per year.
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According to reports on the VKontakte page which calls itself official - at the moment, work is underway to transfer the servers to other countries, and it is planned to restore the work of the service within 3-7 days.
But these messages cause some questions because today a text appeared on the domain FS.to which states that such groups and messages in them are “fake”.
In connection with the whole situation around FS.to, EX.ua service informed about the termination of its work:
Sources:
UPD:
As recalled by the user Stalker_RED - both services had previously stopped their work.
So, EX.ua servers were temporarily withdrawn in January 2012 , but after a while the service was officially resumed.
And FS.to, which was originally called as FS.ua, had problems in October 2013 when their servers were withdrawn .
What do you think about this situation?
Why seized server FS.to?
As stated in the official report on the website of the Ukrainian Cyber ​​Police Department , the case against FS.to was initiated as a result of the appeal of the Motion Picture Association of America (Motion Picture Association of America).
In the course of carrying out operational search activities and investigative actions, the police established involvement in the work on the service of 19 people who created and were engaged in filling and maintaining the activity of the resource. Foreign (including offshore) and a number of Ukrainian companies were separately identified, through whose accounts the funds received from the activities of the FS group’s resources were legalized. According to experts and rightholders, the income from the work of the service was tens of millions of hryvnias per year.
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According to reports on the VKontakte page which calls itself official - at the moment, work is underway to transfer the servers to other countries, and it is planned to restore the work of the service within 3-7 days.
But these messages cause some questions because today a text appeared on the domain FS.to which states that such groups and messages in them are “fake”.
So what does EX.ua have to do with it?
In connection with the whole situation around FS.to, EX.ua service informed about the termination of its work:
Sources:
UPD:
A bit of history
As recalled by the user Stalker_RED - both services had previously stopped their work.
So, EX.ua servers were temporarily withdrawn in January 2012 , but after a while the service was officially resumed.
And FS.to, which was originally called as FS.ua, had problems in October 2013 when their servers were withdrawn .
What do you think about this situation?
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/399327/
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