Italian Police Shut Down File-Sharing Forum Downrevolution.net

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on July 2, 2008 - 9:33am.

London - Italian police have shut down popular music file-sharing forum Downrevolution.net and arrested four alleged operators of the site, which counted 30,000 registered users, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), a record label trade group.

The IFPI said that Downrevolution, founded last year, was a forum where users posted links to unauthorized downloads of music and film files on free online locker services like Rapidshare.com and Megaupload.com, where at least a half million downloads occurred.

Under Italian copyright law, the four alleged Downrevolution operators now face potential prison terms of up to three years, fines of about $23,800, and "administrative sanctions running into hundreds of thousands of euros."

 

Related Links:
http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_news/20080701.html

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/01/italian_filesharing_raid

http://www.downrevolution.net

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You cant shut us all down.

The copyright landscape is a strange one indeed. Unlike the days of the VCR, this is going to play out much differently.... since the peanut gallery has a much bigger voice now. J.

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