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April 28, 2020 The Telegram app announces that it has blocked 20 channels through which tens of thousands of pirated copies of newspapers, magazines and books in pdf format were illegally disseminated.

This was communicated by the manager of the instant messenger application with an email signed 'Telegrama Dmca', sent to the Bari Public Prosecutor's Office. On Monday, the Guardia di Finanza had carried out the emergency preventive seizure of those channels, assuming the crimes - against persons to be identified - of money laundering, receiving stolen goods, abusive access to a computer or telematic system, theft and violation of copyright law.

The urgent preventive seizure, issued by the Public Prosecutor's Office of the Apulian capital, concerns people, currently being identified, who, in competition with each other, would have illegally entered the computer systems of numerous publishing companies of magazines, newspapers and books protected by measures security and would have stolen thousands of files in pdf format, then illegally pouring them on at least 17 identified so far, of 
the Telegram instant messaging platform.

Telegram, in a collaborative manner, immediately sent the response to the Italian authorities, reporting that it had 'banned' all the channels except one whose name it was unable to recognize but assures to do so in collaboration with the investigating authorities. The investigations continue to identify who
entered the illicit material illegally taken from the publishing companies.