February 20, 2009

By By Ayala Ben-Yehuda, L.A.

ACPM Mexico, the joint anti-piracy unit of international labels body IFPI and the Motion Picture Association, have gotten Internet service providers to take down 35 blogs the organizations say are involved in music and film piracy.

Since November, blogs containing 66,000 "infringing links" for illegal downloads have been taken down, according to IFPI. One such blog, MyMusikita, was shutdown in December.

IFPI Latin America's stepped-up campaign against digital pirates comes amid what it says are a "multiplicity of protocols, high volume of content uploaded, cyberlocker uploaders, social networks, blogs and forum sites impacting on the chain of content distribution. We intend to develop major cases against users and sites, no matter what kind of distribution platform, in each country in the region."

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