A tiny torrent site, that didn't actually store torrents and was run from a home Internet connection, has received some serious attention from the police. Acting on information supplied by Rights Alliance on behalf of the movie studios, eight police raided a home address last week. When the site's operator asked to see the search warrant, he was told: "This is not a Hollywood movie."

The raids against Kim Dotcom’s Megaupload back in 2012 were an extravagant affair, with dozens of armed police swooping on his New Zealand mansion. In 2006, Swedish police turned up en masse in their failed attempt to shut down The Pirate Bay but there are now signs that even the smallest of sites are attracting big responses from the authorities.

Dreamfilm.nu is a tiny site by any standards. This torrent-focused project, not to to be confused with Dreamfilm.se, one of the country’s largest streaming sites, is today ranked by Alexa as the 2,794,493rd most popular domain in the world. The Pirate Bay this is definitely not.

Dreamfilm’s size is further underlined by the fact it was being run not from a dedicated webhost, but from a home Internet connection in Sweden. Nevertheless, this relative minnow with just over 900 Facebook likes managed to attract the attention of some of the world’s biggest entertainment companies.

Last Thursday at 7:00am, a total of eight Swedish police officers raided the home of the Dreamfilm admin, who calls himself “Napster”.

“When I asked to see the search warrant I was told in response: ‘This is not a Hollywood movie’,” Napster explained.

Police did not have endless server racks to seize. Dreamfilm.nu was being run on a home computer and once that was taken away, the site came to an end.

“The computer is currently seized and therefore Dreamfilm is down,” he added.

The complaint against the site was initiated by Rights Alliance, the anti-piracy group previously known as Antipiratbyran. The organization told police that the site was offering torrents to 25 movies, three of which were pre-release.

“The site is the Pirate Bay in miniature,” Rights Alliance lawyer Sara Lindebäck told Nyheter24.

Prosecutor Henrik Rasmusson said that the man who was raided confessed to being the Dreamfilm admin, but maintained that his site was completely legal.

“The suspect has admitted that he has been running this site, but says that he has not done anything punishable, Rasmusson said.

In response, the 23-year-old clarified his position, maintaining that no illegal content had ever touched his server. It didn’t even store torrent files, only linked to them.

“It’s hopeless for the police to take a search engine so seriously, confiscate my stuff, and put me in detention for around eight hours. They can stare at the server until their eyes start to bleed, dreamfilm.nu has never committed a crime and therefore there is nothing to download,” he said.

“Dreamfilm.nu is a SEARCH ENGINE like Google . Google gets its information automatically using bots / spiders while Dreamfilm.nu must retrieve information manually and store it in a database.”

While Napster’s fate will be revealed in due course, other longer-standing Swedish cases have been progressing to their closing stages in recent weeks.

Last week the suspected operator of Tankaner.com was prosecuted for copyright infringement related to the illegal distribution of 32 movies in 2012 and 2013. Prosecutor Fredrik Inglad added that since there were ads on the site, he would be pushing for a prison sentence.

Earlier this month, four men were prosecuted for copyright infringement related to the unlawful distribution of 28 Hollywood and local movies in 2009 and 2010. The men, all in their forties, are suspected of being the operators of the warez-scene servers known as ‘Darkside‘. The men admit to having downloaded movies but deny distribution.