The desperation of internet users after the closure of the illegal site zone-téléchargement.com by the gendarmerie in Toulouse – Franceinfo

The gendarmerie toulouse announced on Monday night have done close to the site of illegal downloading of music, movies, and games. Since, the users are desperate. And three people are in custody in Toulouse. It was the largest site of illegal downloading French.

• FV with AFP
• Published on 29/11/2016 at 08:05 am, updated on 29/11/2016 at 09:01

The site to download illegal music, movies, and games “Download Area” has been closed by the national gendarmerie, seven people were arrested and among them three were placed in custody at the research section of Toulouse, a-t-on learned Monday source close to the investigation.
The national gendarmerie suggests a shortfall of € 75 million for the right holders. The operation was carried out after a survey conducted by the research section of Toulouse and the centre of the fight against crime-digital (C3N). It was the biggest illegal site in French, still in activity.

the origin of the referral, a complaint in November 2014 members of the Association for the fight against piracy audiovisuelle (Alpa) and the Society of authors, composers and publishers of music (Sacem), has specified a source close to the folder.

The site, which had an average of 3.7 million connections per month and 11,000 visitors per day, and was previously available at the address http://www.zone-telechargement.com that now displays an error message.

On the social networks, many users rebelled with a sense of humor to the closure of the site, with the creation of the hashtag #JeSuisZoneTelechargement.
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