[Link] Police Shut Down ‘Hydra,’ One of the Largest Dark Web Marketplaces

Read: 6/4/2022 www.vice.com

On Tuesday, Germany’s Central Office for Combating Cybercrime (ZIT) and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) announced the operation in a press release where they called Hydra “the world’s largest illegal darknet marketplace,” according to a Google translation of the announcement.

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[Link] Former Nazi camp secretary formally charged with more than 11,000 counts of accessory to murder

Read: 20/10/2021 www.abc.net.au

Prosecutors accuse her of being part of the apparatus that helped the Nazis’ Stutthof camp function during World War II more than 75 years ago.

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[Link] Stream-Ripping Can be Perfectly Legal, French Ministry of Culture Says

Read: 3/8/2021 torrentfreak.com

Downloading music via stream-ripping tools can be perfectly legal, the French Ministry of Culture has confirmed. The resulting copies fall under the private copying exemption.

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[Link] Germany Is About to Block One of the Biggest Porn Sites

Read: 27/7/2021 www.wired.com

German child-protection regulators are on the verge of blocking one of the world’s largest pornographic websites.

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