AIMR has delegated to the field, both for province and Bucharest, a specialized team of inspectors monitoring street vending and music stores in order to identify sale of counterfeit musical CD / DVD and pirate products. Inspectors refer criminal acts of marketing products without the copyright holders’ approval and starts criminal proceedings on the basis of observation and seized evidence and materials.
@Online piracy
Inspectors survey the Internet for hosting and selling music websites, sites with storage and transfer of files and downloading programs in order to identify persons who make available and facilitate access to copyright protected materials.Torrent sites and hubs of DC++ are the priorities of this department, because most infringements of the law are committed by them.Monitoring is done legally, by observing all clues available to the public without computer access, public available documents, without watching phone calls, checking emails or breaking sites. After all, people who violate copyright law are responsible for sharing copyrighted material as all the necessary evidences are available.
2009
Criminal Court Division Buzau has to judge the first digital piracy process initiated against an Internet provider.
2008
In 2008 they were sent to court 39 criminal cases.Also in 2008, the court pronounced 43 sentences for conviction and accepted civil claims, and also 4 sentences that rejected civil claims,as a result of processing cases from previous years. Conviction where the defendant has been ordered, the sentence was between one and five years suspended sentence on a trial period of up to six years.
UPFR (AIMR in 2008 only to become independent until then functioned as the anti-piracy department's UPFR) became civil part in 221 civil trials and did not for other 102 civil cases, reasoned that pirate phonograms could not be identified or did not intiteled UPFR members.
In 2008 there were 127 criminal complaints for infrigments as digital piracy.
