Quote - This is unusual responsiveness, and the only thing I can figure is that because Russia wants to be admitted to the European Union, they're cracking down when caught.

Pat

Hi Pat Actually thats not it, but I was surprised myself to hear some of the reasons why they seem to comply 1) that hoster is involved in various big rip offs. In one case they were so stupid to try to rip content where big european money is involved. Big money that invests in Russia too. Needless to say that they are not amused and can make much more pressure then any of us can 2)another reasons seems to be the family background of some of the posters of some of the ripped off copyrighted material: I cant give details here, but let me say that sometimes kids do stuff which badly crosses the plans of their parents. And this moreso when those parents have political ambitions. It looks to me that the people here just got lucky that this hoster/isp was "on the list" since some longer time already and that coincidentally several floods of new complaints hit more or less at the same time. take care, Valerie