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The Russian police have arrested the owners of a file sharing website after storming the video pirates’ office in Moscow .

In the first police action against the media pirates since the failure of legal actions against Allofmp3.com, the police broke into the office of the Interfilm.ru website, RIA Novosti writes Monday.

During the raid, the police arrested the website’s owners, a married couple, and several employees.

Interfilm.ru allowed all registered users to download movie torrents for free. According to a message circulated by the Russian Anti-Pirate Organization Monday, the website made money on online advertising and offering paid users higher download speed.

According to the message, the website, hosted on a server based in Holland , was closed immediately after the arrests, but it was functioning on Monday.

Commenting on the news, Kommersant business daily said that, in court, the owners of Interfilm were likely to be found guilty of violating the copyright legislation and sentenced to up to six years in prison.