Not one to sit back after just having released its report on the state of music in 2007, the IFPI announced today that the music industry organization conducted 335 raids on Internet cafes in Brazil, making good on its threat to step up its antipiracy efforts there. The raids were conducted the first two weeks of January but are only being announced now.
The action was centered in Sao Paolo and carried out in partnership with the Associacao Anti-pirateria de Cinema e Musica (APCM), Brazil's anti-piracy lobbyists dedicated to both the music and movie business. The APCM is a bit of an oddity: the group is the result of Voltron-like combinatory powers, having been formed from the merger of independent anti-piracy groups.
According to the IFPI, the raid was a success. Some 2,339 computers were seized, and more than one million "illegal" audio tracks were found. Despite this, only one (!) arrest was made.
The raid, which consumed intense human resources, sends a message to Internet café owners in Brazil and elsewhere: we can show up and take your stuff, so you should really police your own customers better. An impressive show of police power, more than 600 Special Ops police were involved.
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600 special ops police - 1 arrest ? WTF that has to be the biggest waste of public resources ever, lol
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