The IFPI has filed 8000 new lawsuits in 17 countries, mostly in Europe and South America. Some of the countries caught in this wave of lawsuits against downloading music illegally include, Argentina, Austria, Singapore, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, France and Germany, plus others like Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Holland and Portugal. The net has certainly been cast far and wide as the music industry tries desperately to stop illegal downloading.
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Through these lawsuits, the IFPI aims to target file sharers and file traders using P2P networks such as BitTorrent, eDonkey, Limewire and WinMX to name a few.
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