An investigation by the Italian Fiscal Police has concluded that the operators behind a pirate website and associated cyberlocker generated illegal revenues of more than €1.3 million (£1 million) in just 15 months.

The DDLStorage cyberlockers allowed the legal exchange of files and documents. But it was discovered that they had been developed by a network of professional criminals who were making available copyright infringing films, games, music and TV programmes.

Just 3% of users on the platform uploaded files ...