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A years-long investigation just unmasked a major torrent pirate, the how remains unclear (www.techspot.com)
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Kyoto Prefectural Police have arrested a man accused of uploading copyrighted TV programs to the torrent site Nyaa, following an investigation that began several years ago.

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[–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Sounds to me like they just own one of these trackers. Just like the NSA controls nodes on the tor network.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago*

    I think that'd make sense. The trackers for public torrents are often at seemingly random domain names and nobody really pays much attention to who runs them.

    The US military created Tor, so I don't doubt the US government still runs a lot of the nodes.

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