IFPI: Brazil's Largest Music-Sharing Community Shut Down

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 1, 2009 - 1:18pm.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), a record label trade group, announced that it has aided authorities in shutting down what it claims was Brazil's largest Web community offering links to illegal music files. With just under a million registered users, "DiscorafiaS" was a group within Orkut, Google's (NASD: GOOG) social network -- which is the most popular social network in Brazil. IFPI said local industry trade association ABPD and anti-piracy firm APCM Brazil led the actions, which also shut down five other similar groups on Orkut.

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