The European record industry has sued 18 of the country's 5000 online music pirates

According to foreign reports, the music industry in the whole of Europe on Tuesday launched a new round of lawsuits and criminal attack wave, this massive operation has two goals, one of which is the fight against online piracy, the second is to encourage users to use legal music services.

The International Federation of recording industry (IFPI) said the agency sued 10 cases in a total of 2000 countries in the European Union, a total of about 18 countries in the prosecution of the parties in the case of the 5000.

This figure does not include the United States, the United States Record Association sued piracy cases have reached 18 thousand.

Among the countries that have been prosecuted, Portugal's CD record has shrunk by 40% in the past year, due to the use of file sharing sites in.

Other individual users, including Finland loggers, British postman, Czech IT manager, and a German judge.

IEPI notes that most of the pirates are aged 20-35 years old, and they do not pay attention to continuous education and warning. The Italy authorities seized more than and 70 illegal file sharing computer files website.

The IEPI's legal action is not aimed at illegal downloading of music works, but those who will be copyrighted works uploaded to the file sharing network "upload".

IEPI said last week, the number of digital music sales soared, but still not enough to withstand the decline in the number of physical carriers such as CD decline.