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Massive Pirate Anime DVD Bust In Hong Kong Date: 1/28/2005 |
| On January 26th Hong Kong customs officers raided and shut down a group suspected of manufacturing and selling pirated DVD's. A cache of 240,000 DVD's was seized, valued at 6,000,000 HK dollars in Kowloon and Shatin. Arrests included 2 men and 2 women aged between 28 and 43 years. They are suspected to be the group's core members. After customs had executed a thorough investigation, the raid was authorized and occured at 4 PM on a Guantang goods warehouse, where 230,000 Japanese Animation DVD's were found, estimated to be worth 5,750,000 HK dollars. A later raid occured at a Shatin area location where a batch of suspected bootleg DVD's was scheduled to ship to America via aerial cargo transport. 10,000 Japanese Animation and Hong Kong Movie DVDs, valued at 250,000 HK dollars was seized. Hong Kong's Copyright Law states that any person found guilty of engaging in this sort of of piracy could face 4 years in prison and a 500,000 HK dollars fine. ANS could not confirm the name of the group. |
| Source: Anime News Service |
