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IFPI takes down music release group

The IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) has announced that they have successfully raided two servers in Hungary that were home to the very popular music release group RAGEMP3.

The announcement also said that the raid disrupted another music release group, XXL. The raid was a joint action by the IFPI, Hungarian police, and ProArt (the local copyright traffic police).



No arrests have been made and the announcement said nothing about any long term consequences for the release groups. Most likely the organizations are nowhere near decimated and its possible that the servers were not the only ones used by the groups.

The release groups, otherwise known as top sites, are "the top tier hierarchy of the online distribution world." It is where releases begin and the point from which information "trickles" down to torrent sites, newsgroups, Warez forums and finally P2P.

Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 20 Mar 2008 15:08

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• DXR88

  Someware a little girl just got raped,
  sombody just starved to death,
  somebody died by a drunk driver,
  somebody got robbed at gunpoint,
  somebody house just got broken into and stuff got stolen,
  somebody got OD and died today,
  
  and they worry about this stuff, know why cause those thing above dont make money for your greedy corp.

  20.3.2008 22:17 #1

• TBandit

  Well this is just like those others CRIME. That's their job. I'm sure the other crimes will be dealt with but this is a crime that is growing because it gets easier and easier to access pirated software and other movies and what not. I dont know why people give these people bad reps for doing upholding the law.

  22.3.2008 19:07 #2

• DXR88

  There not upholding the law there Manipulating it.
  
  A Crime, is if i pulled a gun and killed somebody
  
  there Organizing Local Police To storm somebodys house, the same way they do a drug bust.
  
  10 years ago this would have never. think about it why now We had cd Replicaters ten years ago. the rate of felony hasnt gone down its gone up.
  
  Quote:The IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) has announced that they have successfully raided two servers in Hungary that were home to the very popular music release group RAGEMP3. oh really you did, so your your own goverment body now too. enforcing your law down are throats.
  
  
  
  the old Saying Freedom isnt Free Well, they Right we're not free.

  22.3.2008 20:39 #3