Within the fourth wave of Operation 404, the Brazilian regulation enforcement companies blocked/shut down round 226 web sites and 461 piracy purposes. On this anti-piracy initiative, the authorities made a number of arrests.
Seizure Particulars
The operation was a joint effort from the USA and Brazilian authorities. The US Homeland Safety Investigations and the US Division of Justice (DoJ) seized six web site domains (Corourbanos.com, Corourbano.com, Pautamp3.com, SIMP3.com, flowactivo.co, and Mp3Teca.ws) working from the Jap District of Virginia for streaming and facilitating unlawful downloads of copyrighted music within the USA.
Conversely, round 266 extra web sites had been taken down in Brazil, which had been a part of the identical community together with 15 social community profiles. Furthermore, six individuals had been arrested after 30 searches and seizures countrywide.
On the time of publishing this text, all seized domains displayed the next message on their homepage:
This area title has been seized by Homeland Safety Investigations (HSI) pursuant to a warrant issued by the USA District Courtroom for the Jap District of Virginia below the authority of, interalia, Title 18, United States Code, Part 2323.
About Operation 404
The operation was initiated as an in depth anti-piracy marketing campaign in late 2019. Brazilian regulation enforcement companies launched this operation and codenamed it Operation 404 after the HTTP error code.
The authorities collaborated with regulation enforcement companies within the UK and the USA. Since then, a number of waves of the operation ensued below the names Operation 404.2 and Operation 404.3. The operation spanned eleven states. Thus far, a whole lot of pirate websites and streaming apps’ domains have been blocked.
The most recent wave of the operation was titled Operation 404.4. Nonetheless, the authorities by no means named the suspects or the websites taken down, however they confirmed that the apps alone had been downloaded ten million instances. Sources additionally confirmed that every one of them had been music-related apps.
The Metaverse Hyperlink
In accordance with a TorrentFreak, issued by Brazilian authorities, the operation in opposition to pirated websites and apps was expanded to the metaverse. Brazil’s Cybercrime group of the Secretariat of Built-in Operations (Seopi) coordinator, Alessandro Barreto, defined that criminals created occasions and maps on platforms like Roblox to market their pirated providers and invite events to their video platforms.
Nonetheless, the authorities didn’t specify how they entered the metaverse. The DoJ famous that 4 unlawful broadcast channels had been shut down together with the deactivation of 90 pirated movies.
