Guardia di Finanza in Italy shut down a filesharing forum this week after discovering links — and only links – to pirated material, such as music and movies.

Downrevolution.net was locked down and four people were arrested pending a criminal investigation into the activity on the filesharing forum. Three of those arrested are reportedly children. Some 17 computers were seized in the filesharing raid, along with three external hard drives and a bunch of CDs and DVDs.

The arrested could face jail terms of up to four years for their supposed illegal filesharing activities. This again raises the issue of what constitutes copyright infringement. The filesharing website in question did not host any of the copyrighted material, so really, who is in the wrong?

We’ll be following this filesharing case closely. This is all similar to the arrest in the UK of the guy behind the filesharing website OiNK.cd. He remains under investigation.

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