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FileSoup Experiencing Legal Woes
The oldest BitTorrent site, FileSoup, has recently been targeted by police as well as anti-piracy officers. FilesSoups owner was arrested and further denied his phone call and legal representation for more than seven hours. His warrant was gained on July 27 and was backed up by the MPAA-funded UK anti-piracy group FACT. A raid on his home was then conducted. He was subsequently charged with Suspicion of downloading copyrighted movies.
The owner of FileSoup, known as The Geeker, said “I asked them [police] while still at home if I could contact a member of my family so that someone could come and make sure my dog was catered for, they said that I couldn’t. On the way to the police station I asked if they could contact someone to take care of the dog or if I could make a phone call, they again said I could not,”
FileSoup was founded in 2003 and is considered one of the original torrent sites. Although keeping a low profile, the site has built a solid reputation, and had survived the other popular torrent site, the Pirate Bay.
The warrant was issued under Section 109 of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act of 1988. It allows the gathering of any evidence related to the illegal file distribution or file-sharing of copyright films. Although FileSoup has never hosted any copyright material, it has links to metadata which links to material hosted elsewhere.
To date, FileSoup still remains operable.