IFPI, which represents the recording industry worldwide, has welcomed the move which it claims highlights the illegal business models behind some well-known unlicensed music services.

Italianshare.net and four affiliated websites were originally closed down in November 2011, following action by the Guardia di Finanza (GdF). The authorities then investigated the ways in which the illegal businesses had generated revenue, leading to today's arrest made by officers from the Tax Police Force of Agropoli.

Investigators found that the operator had made ...