Police bust major European web pirates
Bulgarian police charged two men on Saturday for illegally distributing music and films in what officials called one of Europes largest Internet pirate groups.
They arrested an administrator and systems operator for putting download links to 20 million songs — or roughly 3 million albums — and hundreds of films on the web site www.arenabg.com, one of Bulgarias most popular pages.
Users could download as many of the songs and films as they liked after paying a four lev ($2.50) monthly fee. Authorities estimate the damage to the entertainment industry at around $30 million.
These people are among the biggest Internet pirates in Europe, said Liliana Yosifova, spokeswoman for the Sofia Investigators Office We are talking about big losses here.
