IFPI Claim 335 Internet Cafe Raids A Success - Only One Man Arrested

[GhostShip]

In a show of stupidity and attempting to bluster their way out of a propaganda failure the IFPI are yet again claiming victory for a great non event that saw 600 police net one internet cafe user  :roll:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080128-ifpi-raids-hundreds-of-internet-cafes-600-cops-one-arrest.html

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.

No doubt an independent version of what was actually found on any of the computers does not exist, instead the IFPI, a group famous for lies and propaganda will merely carry on repeating thier claims as they usually do. Some of us remember the major legal defeat they took in Russia recently after their case was thrown out in regard to the allofmp3 site, lets face it they are full of rhetoric and lacking in reality. 

[Lagerlout666]

Christ talk about over kill. Brazil has the worst case of gang culture in the world. Their are hundreds killed over drugs and guns. Yet they can raise this amount of officers to go arrest one man.

The world is really going insane.

[..Ñøßߥ..]

They should be charged with wasting police time / public money, a disgrace.