File-Sharing Has Been Shut Down

The Ukrainian most popular file-sharing  has been shut down by Ukrainian police with immediate effect.

The police confiscated 200 servers on which more than 6,000 terabytes of data was stored. The servers              were located in 5 data centers in kyiv.       

Ex.ua raids follow less than two weeks after US authorities ordered the shutdown another file-hosting service,     Mega  Upload.because the site was widely used to copyrighted files, several international companies including   Microsoft, Graphic   soft and Adobe filed complaints against the  service.                                                              

After a six month criminal investigation, this resulted in the shutdown.                                                 Sixteen employees  were taken in for questioning. At the time of writing it is unclear how many arrests                have been made, if any.      

The authorities did confirm that the site was run by a Latvian citizIf found guilty, the operators of the site face       up to five years in prison.by Ukrainian Police.