LARGEST EVER PIRATE DVD MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTION FACILITY RAIDED
The Metropolitan Police and Waltham Forest Trading Standards in a joint initiative with FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft) on Wednesday raided a major pirate DVD manufacturing facility and made five arrests. The premises contained over 500 individual DVD burners capable of producing over 60,000 pirate DVDs per day, with an estimated daily street value in excess of £250,000 (c. £1.7m per week).
The raid in Leyton followed an investigation into the supply of counterfeit DVDs across London and the South East and also involved officers from the Met’s new Film Piracy Unit (FPU), a joint initiative with FACT. Officers from the FPU will be conducting a detailed investigation into the finances surrounding the pirate operation.
Titles seized in the raid include Ice Age 2, which only goes on general UK cinema release today (Friday), and over 300 other titles.
One female and four males were arrested and taken to a police station in east London. Enquiries continue.
The Metropolitan Police and Waltham Forest Trading Standards in a joint initiative with FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft) on Wednesday raided a major pirate DVD manufacturing facility and made five arrests. The premises contained over 500 individual DVD burners capable of producing over 60,000 pirate DVDs per day, with an estimated daily street value in excess of £250,000 (c. £1.7m per week).
The raid in Leyton followed an investigation into the supply of counterfeit DVDs across London and the South East and also involved officers from the Met’s new Film Piracy Unit (FPU), a joint initiative with FACT. Officers from the FPU will be conducting a detailed investigation into the finances surrounding the pirate operation.
Titles seized in the raid include Ice Age 2, which only goes on general UK cinema release today (Friday), and over 300 other titles.
One female and four males were arrested and taken to a police station in east London. Enquiries continue.
