The music’s over at “Discotequezone” as the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) announces that the Italian “fuzz” has shut it down.
Always on the prowl for “infringing P2P hubs,” the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry), announced yesterday that Italian police had successfully shut down the Italian DC hub “Discotequezone.”
The Italian Fiscal Police (GdF), acting with search warrants issued by the Public Prosecutor of Brescia and assisted by the Federation Against Music Piracy (FPM), raided several locations in Italy.
The operation targeted 5 servers and 4 heavy uploaders involved in the distribution of copyright infringing music tracks on the DirectConnect hub.
So far 11 people have been charged with copyright infringement, with more indictments certainly to come. The police crackdown led to the seizure of 16 computers, 27 external HDD and more than 1000 DVD-Rs and CD-Rs with a total of more than 5TB(!!) of copyrighted material.
More than 195 individuals have been prosecuted for illegal P2P distribution in Italy since 2005, and this new event simply adds to that tally.
It was noted a while back that P2P downloading was legal in Italy so long as it wasn’t done for profit. The Italian high court ruled that downloading copyrighted material is not illegal if “profit is not the motivation.” The decision was the result of a case against two students who set up a P2P file-sharing network and who were originally each given a nine-year sentence for their “crimes.”
It will be interesting to see what the individuals in this “Discotequezone” get charged with specifically other than copyright infringement if the Italian High Court has already ruled that file-sharing is legal if not done for profit. Something tells me the Italian authorities have something up their sleeve.
To note, at the right you’ll see a pic of what the site’s HP currently reads. It’s in Italian of course but, you don’t need to be able to read Italian to know what the word “POLIZIA” means.
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Such a shame!
[QUOTE]It was noted a while back that P2P downloading was legal in Italy so long as it wasn’t done for profit. The Italian high court ruled that downloading copyrighted material is not illegal if “profit is not the motivation.” The decision was the result of a case against two students who set up a P2P file-sharing network and who were originally each given a nine-year sentence for their “crimes.”[/QUOTE]
Not quite right. This was they way it was in the old days two years ago a law enforced the fight against piracy. It works as in most coutryes downloading copyrighted material is illegal no matter what the use will be.
The guys metioned downloaded those files before the law was made …. hence the old law was to be applied for them particular instance.
Sorry for my poor English
plagio Rome