Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office. News 1
Broadcasting industry officials and elementary school teachers who had a large-capacity server in the house and shared 64,000 movies, dramas, and sound sources were handed over to trial.
On the 9th, the Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office of Defense Project·Industrial Technology Crime Criminal (Prosecutor Lee Chun) prosecuted broadcasting industry officials A (46) and elementary school teachers B (41) without custody on charges of violating the copyright law.
From December 2014 to August of last year, Mr. A has 48,868 works (21TB in capacity, 8322157 files), and Mr. B has 16,027 works from December 2017 to August last year (capacity 28TB). 500,000,988 files) are being accused of sharing so that other members can download it.
The videos they shared included famous movies such as’Avengers’,’Justice League’, and’Joker’, as well as domestic movies, dramas, music, and broadcast content. It has also been confirmed that there are some adult material. However, the prosecution said there were no videos of sexual crimes such as children appearing or sexual exploitation.
As a result of the prosecution’s investigation, they were suggested to manage and operate shared servers through IRC (Internet Relay Chat: an international chat service). Mr. A and Mr. B said that they accepted the server management and operation with the idea that “you can share the latest movies before others.”
They managed the members by accessing the server and giving the member who posted the work a score appropriate for it, and allowing them to download more capacity. They also used floating IPs that periodically change their IP addresses to outrun investigations.
Crime organization chart. Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office
Legal cooperation with 18 countries including the United States and Europe… Seized and searched the same day
However, the crime was revealed through joint investigations with the US and European judicial authorities (Eurojust). The U.S. Southern New York Prosecutors’ Office, which has been investigating illegal dissemination organizations since 2016, confirmed that copyright files are illegally distributed through 70 large servers in 18 countries around the world through captured gang members. The countries involved are Canada, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Spain, France, Latvia, Norway, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States, and Korea is the only country in Asia.
In June of last year, the prosecution received a request from the US Department of Justice for cooperation in criminal justice against Mr. A and Mr. B. Two of the 70 places where large-capacity servers were identified were the residences of Mr. A and Mr. B.
Investigation authorities, including Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office, shared the investigation information in real time, while simultaneously seizing and searching these large-capacity servers on August 25 last year. The prosecution confiscated, forensic and analyzed a total of 1.33 million copyrighted files from the residences of Mr. A and B.
A prosecution official said, “As a result of checking the accounts of Mr. A and Mr. B, the profits they gained from the server operation were not confirmed.”
Reporter Choi Moran [email protected]