Authorities in Ukraine seized servers for an adult torrent tracker,...
Authorities in Ukraine seized servers for an adult torrent tracker, Pornolab.net, which operated out of a data center in that country, TorrentFreak.com said, citing police in Kiev. The site has 2 million registered users, with an estimated 700,000 Ukrainians. It’s…
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violating Article 301 of the Ukrainian criminal code by offering the “importation, production, sale and distribution of pornographic material without age restriction,” police said. Police are attempting to identify Ukrainian users of the site and charge them as unlawful distributors because BitTorrent users upload pieces of a file they have received as the file continues downloading to their computers. TorrentFreak said Article 301 has previously been used by authorities to shut down “various publications deemed to be offensive, including literature aimed at the gay community,” and punishment can range from “large fines to 5 years in prison.” Another popular torrent tracker operating out of Ukraine, Demonoid, has tried to avoid attention from authorities by blocking local traffic and forbidding the distribution of adult content, TorrentFreak said.