FBI raided 30 “scene” servers yesterday and multiple arrests had been made. With the FBIs first shot, the MPAA reported information that has led to 4 topsites being shut down, and forcing several others offline. Several FBI officers took down 7-8 boxes hosted by Layered Tech, and later on busted servers hosted by Server Matrix. DiAMOND, FLAMES, NBP, SAGA, TBE and other groups were part of the take down.

In total, 18-20 boxes were raided, with hundreds of terabytes of data stored in total, 4 topsites were shut down directly because of the actions of the FBI, and the number of other sites that were slowed down, or shut down on their own, is not known. In response to the busts, several people in the scene are urging people to abandon using Layered Tech and Server Matrix to use as seedboxes, fearing it is only a matter of time until they are noticed taken down.

[Via WiredFire]