The Register reports that More than 750 premises were raided - and 15 people arrested - in a crackdown against a huge Internet piracy network in Germany this week.

The Germans are thought to be part of a wider network of 476 people in 33 countries who were members of an internet forum called Liquid FXP. Police said members of the forum discovered 11,820 servers worldwide with security gaps. They would hack into the system and install their own server, which would then enable them to download what they wanted.