Specialists of the LKA Saxony and the General Public Prosecutor's Office in Dresden have succeeded in a 
massive strike against a worldwide known network of copyright infringers. Business premises and data centers were searched in six countries worldwide. The suspects allegedly operated the platforms town.ag and usenet-town.com. On 08.11.2017, one of the largest and most comprehensive investigative actions against the Usenet scene to date took place. Specialists from the Saxony LKA and the Dresden Prosecutor General's Office carried out house and business searches against 26 suspects in six different countries. In the process, two German suspects (aged 31 and 39) were arrested in Spain and Saxony. The defendants are accused of illegally distributing films, series, music, etc. on Usenet via Internet portals (also known as boards) and thus committing copyright infringements. The websites affected include town.ag, usenetrevolution.info and speeduse.net. These and other websites are now no longer accessible. The site nfo-underground.xxx, which has been shut down in the meantime, can be accessed again.
Usenet as an anonymous download platform
Usenet is an Internet network and an alternative to the World Wide Web. Users can post contributions or links on a kind of digital bulletin board largely anonymously and thus make them accessible to other users. Links are exchanged on the boards that lead to various files on Usenet. Users most recently had access to around 400,000 or 1,200,000 titles. Copyright holders are said to have suffered damages of several million euros.
It is comparatively easy for copyright holders to have the files deleted if they can prove that they are the copyright holders. Users have now taken to obscuring the file names and encrypting them with passwords. At this point, the above-mentioned boards have become important, as passwords and links to the desired files are exchanged via these (often also encrypted) forums.
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LKA and Attorney General's Office already involved in kino.to case
The Prosecutor General's Office in Dresden and the LKA Saxony, which also investigated kino.to, have now carried out a strike against the operators of the above-mentioned platforms. They have searched data centers in Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, San Marino and Switzerland, as well as in Canada, and secured the platforms' data in order to prove copyright infringement by the operators. A total of more than 1,000 gigabytes of data were secured on the servers, and numerous computers and data carriers were also seized.
No consequences for most users
Users of the platforms themselves are unlikely to fear any legal consequences in most cases. Unlike streaming platforms such as kino.to or others, users here do not access the files via the boards' 
servers themselves and retrieve them directly on them, but via the general Usenet data centers. As a result, the investigating authorities are unlikely to be able to prove any specific infringements by the board users. The initial investigations are not directed against the Usenet data centers. These would be the only way to obtain the IP addresses of the downloaders. However, the situation might be somewhat different if the users on a board had to pay a regular subscription fee to use it. In these cases, you could possibly be charged with aiding and abetting copyright infringement, since you financially sponsored the platform and its activities. The platforms had their services and access to the works financed through sponsors, earning millions. We received the info from an admin of the sites brothersofusenet and spacecowboys. These were not directly affected by the investigations but were taken offline by the operators as a precaution. Consequently, the server data and hard drives were destroyed in order to guarantee the anonymity of the users of this platform in the future.