The Indonesian authorities have reportedly closed down two illegal download services based in capital Jakarta called Download Mania and Download Station. Authorities raided a number of offices related to the download operations, seizing business records and sixty computers. The raids followed complaints from the Asia Pacific bit of the International Federation Of The Phonographic Industry and the Indonesian record industry trade body ASIRI.
Meanwhile, across the planet, Dutch anti-piracy watchdog BREIN has closed down a P2P site called ShareConnector.com - a site which provided links to illegal sources of music available via the eDonkey P2P network. The site's owner, known on the site as 'Adi', seemingly closed the service down after being visited by officials at his home in Amstelveen near Amsterdam earlier this month.
It's not the first time the service has gone offline though. The site disappeared after Adi's servers were confiscated in 2004, but it relaunched just under a year ago with Adi claiming he now considered his site to be legal. He is seemingly still of that opinion, but has been persuaded that it isn't worth his while trying to argue that viewpoint in court - BRIEN have been pursuing litigation against him for much of the year.
In a posting on his now closed website, Adi wrote this week: "Last Monday the guys from BREIN visited me at home to convince me to close ShareConnector or else they will start a civil proceeding with a claim. Of course, this does not mean I agree with their point of view, it's just that I can't afford taking any risks. As of today, November 12, 2007 I decided to close down. If there is anything new to report, you will be informed. Thank you for all your support and understanding".