Last November, Italian police (Guardia di Finanza) shut down a prominent network of five filesharing sites including ItalianShare.net. Together the sites had more than 300,000 users and carried 31,402 links to movies, music, TV shows, software and games indexed on BitTorrent, cyberlockers and eDonkey networks. This week the Italian fiscal police concluded their investigation into the 49-year-old operator of the sites, known online under the pseudonym “Tex Willer.” The operator was arrested and is suspected of facilitating copyright infringement and several related crimes. In addition, five others have been charged with multiple offenses including tax fraud and counterfeiting. According to the authorities, Willer also earned 37,000 euros by making the site’s user database available to advertisers. Emails and IP-addresses were sold without permission of the site’s members, which is a violation of privacy law. The operator is also suspected of creating fake invoices worth 100,000 euros, and failing to pay 83,000 euros in taxes.

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Filesharing Admin Arrested for Selling User Database