Brazil's Oldest Online Forum Shuts Down

According to Torrentfreak , global music industry group IFPI confirmed that with its support, Brazil's cybercrime unit Cyber Gaeco forced the FileWarez forum to shut down after more than 19 years online.

FileWarez appeared in 2004, 2 weeks ago this forum suddenly disappeared, even the moderators seemed confused.

FileWarez is an illegal music sharing forum

Peer-to-peer technologies like Napster, Gnutella, FastTrack, and BitTorrent revolutionized file sharing, but without the support of dozens of forum communities, things might have turned out differently. Once they had achieved their purpose, however, many forums were abandoned, their members drawn to the social networking trend. Brazil-based FileWarez first appeared in August 2004, with Portuguese as the default language. Despite problems and occasional shutdowns, the forum has survived until recently.

When the main forum closed, other linked discussion platforms also stopped working. A Facebook post indicated that the page had been taken down by the network operator.

In a press release, global music industry group IFPI announced that the popular illegal file-sharing forum FileWarez has been shut down following a coordinated action by record companies, anti-piracy body APDIF and cybercrime unit Cyber Gaeco.

FileWarez was a forum for sharing illegal music content. When it was active, the site had over 118,000 registered users with at least 24,000 monthly active users.

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