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STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 31 (UPI) -- Swedish police Wednesday closed the lid on one of the world's largest illegal Internet swapping sites for movies, music and games.
More than 1 million registered users pirated copyright materials via "The Pirate Bay," the Motion Picture Association of America said in a news release.
The site's operators have "taunted law enforcement for years," the MPAA said, but all of that came to a screeching halt as more than 50 Swedish police executed warrants and raids at 10 locations.
Three people have been arrested.
"The actions today taken in Sweden serve as a reminder to pirates all over the world that there are no safe harbors for Internet copyright thieves," MPAA Chairman and CEO Dan Glickman said in a statement. "Intellectual property theft is a problem for film industries all over the world and we are glad that the local government in Sweden has helped stop The Pirate Bay from continuing to enable rampant copyright theft on the Internet."
Major film studios lost an estimated $6.1 billion to piracy in 2005, the MPAA said.
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