BPI makes arrest in DV8 case

11:31 | Monday June 22, 2009

The arrest follows a joint investigation by the BPI and IFPI in conjunction with the City of London Police and the Intellectual Property Office.

The BPI believes a group entitled DV8 is responsible for leaking more than 2,500 titles.

The investigation has already recovered a substantial quantity of promotional CDs and computer equipment, including an active FTP server and client and software used in connection with ripping and digitising content.

BPI director of anti-piracy David Wood says, “Although the investigation continues, even at this early stage we believe that a full forensic examination of the equipment recovered will yield a lot of useful evidence and intelligence about the ‘scene’ and the criminal activities of those involved in pre-release music uploading.”