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- abbott75, on 10/12/2007, -7/+46I hope they get a harsh punishment. People like them are the ones the **AA should be going after, not small time private pirates.
- 7of7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25Arr mateys, we be building more manufacturing capacity by the fiscal third quarter.
- nielkie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19Dugg for the pic
- zbeast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18with an estimated daily street value in excess of £250,000.
Oh man thats pure mpeg 2 man. Here take a hit. - pwrstick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16That'd be 4 pounds each, math major. ;-) Or around 8 bucks a DVD. Seems cheap.
- PaulOwen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9"A woman and four men were arrested on Wednesday (April 5) during a raid in east London on a pirate DVD factory said to be the largest yet discovered. "
When you hover over the word "raid" a popup ad for NAS, SAN and RAID comes up. I don't think they mean that sort of raid though. It continues ...
"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 (circa £1.7m per week)"
Shame they didn't highlight the words "DVD burners" with an Ad too. How ironic that could have been. - szelij, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Awesome. Are they going to auction those stuff? I wanna some!
- chuckfoo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10ha That looks like my room
- sapo916, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8NATIONAL PIRATE ORGANISATION OF AMERICA IS SHIPPING EMERGENCY DVD-BURNER SHIPMENTS
Arrival ETA 1430 - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10it's a sad day for pirates :( yaarr...
- bigred, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Thats 1 DVD or CD every 12 minutes from each burner. Sure its capable of it, but I think that number is slightly inflated, to switch 500 DVD's every 12 minutes is probably impossible. If it takes 10 seconds to switch 1 DVD, it would take about an hour and a half for 1 person to switch them all, or 5 people 15-20 minutes, plus you gotta factor in time to label and case them. Highly improbable that they'd be able to do more than 10000 a day.
Still impressive though. - Ximensions, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Story on the bbc website as well: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4886360.stm
- fifrenzy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Perhaps it was the sound of 500 DVD burners spooling up simultaneously that caused suspicion.
- SammoHung, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Looks to be a lot more organized than these guys: http://evilempire.ath.cx/node/257
- blhack, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9are you retarded? These aren't the people who are actually doing releases. These are like the ***** bain of the scene's existance. Good riddance. The group that released the Ice Age 2 dvd that they're talking about is called PreVail. What these guys do is leech off of releases done by people risking their necks for them (and releasing them for free on the web), then turn around and sell them for money.
I hope they get life in prison. - Drood, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Abbott: Absolutely. I have a major problem with everything done in the name of preventing piracy, like suing users etc...
But this? THIS is the target they need to take down. The people that are really costing them tons of money. THESE are the real pirates, doing it for money and in mass quantities. - geeke, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Holy *****, 60 thousand dvds a day. dugg cool story.
- cphuntington97, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5someone tell drosan!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9+1 abbott75
- G-RaZoR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Haha, they totally had it coming to them. Anyone know if the UK's copyright laws are as harsh/not as harsh as they are in here in the US?
- tharris7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4...or even the words "pirate DVDs"
- DannySpace, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8I love this world! It flows like a ***** james bond movie.
Laughable Man.... HA! - Paroparo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Oh right, 4£. Never was good with numbers. =P
Move along, nothing to see here. - brownb2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3For those people that modded the parent down it was a sly sense of humour, a reason why they went after DVD Jon. In RL everyone knows DVDs on Linux is not the reason.
- Computer_Kid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Thoes pirates are much cooler! :-) Just look at all of thoes home brewed dvd equpment!
- Snuffkin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's written (poundsign)4, not 4(poundsign).
(Comment system editing is buggered.) - nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2divide by 10,000, that leaves floor(25 / 6) = 4 ... not 40.
(edit: was a bit late on this one) - Kolar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I guess when you factor in the cost of the burners, the risk, distribution ect.. not to mention double sided DVDs are a little more expensive then single sided 4.7GB ones.
I wonder if the Ice Age 2 copy they were burning was just a TS rip or DVD quality. - Paroparo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8Wait a minute. 60,000 DVDs = 250,000£ street value? So 1 DVD = around 40£? =/
- samfrench, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I wonder how much that setup costs. I dont think that they would be making that much profit on it, but I wonder how they got caught. Anyways, dugg. I am surprised they could even sell 10,000 a day unless they moved them around the country, cutting into their profits. Anyways how do you sell them on the street just go around and ask random people in the ghetto if they want to buy a dvd. I would be too scared a goody-goody would call the cops. Anyways, nice setup.
- PayneX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Why do these reports feel the need to give an "example" of dvd's being pirated?
Who cares if Ice age 2 is one of them? - wilf_brim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well, I'm glad that somebody other than single mothers are getting in trouble with the law. These guys, though, are nothing in comparison with the Far East pirates. They don't use burners, they press DVDs and CDs, replicate the boxes and jewel cases, the whole thing. Some of these are so good you probably couldn't tell the real from the fake. However, its kind of hard to take down those operation. It easier to pick on the single moms, and these yahoos.
Oh, I checked the price on some of the duplicators. The 10 disc version (will do dual layer DVDs) costs $1,290, less shipping, so the hardware is about 9 grand. London diggers may be able to pick up one of these at a police auction sometime in the near future. - Snuffkin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I live in the UK. As far as I know this country has some sort of equivalent to the DMCA, sadly.
- ehmjay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2good for them! This is the kind of Piracy that should be stopped...the kind that ACTUALLY hurts the industry. Not those private lawsuits...
we've been discussing this in my law-class lately and no one is on my side, but lets face facts. My downloading Woody Allen's new movie ain't hurting the industry. Especially when they dont put it in a wide enough release that I could see it anyways. - evol1911, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Those ARE the people that they go after... MPAA doesnt sue people for downloading unless it is for profit... they send out notices.
- p014k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1those are crazy figures. The station they have setup is nuts!
- mikeazorin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2http://img.hexus.net/v2/lifestyle/news/fact/fact_leyton_c.jpg
This is the coolest thing I've seen in a long time. How many DVD's can be burned by one PC simultaneously? - JoeWall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1250 000 for one week
- swaggadocio, on 08/20/2008, -2/+3Harsher
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1ROFL - I haven't laughed so hard all day
- TROGDOR42, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Avast, ye, maties! It be the anti-pirates! Arr!
- 2drunk2funk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I would imagine the fact that a few thousand blank DVD deliveries a week was a little suspicious, I aint a detective or anything but I would flag that up as worth watching ;)
Also agree this is the kind of groups they need to hunt out, mass production pirating is the killer here, not the odd individual downloading a movie, watching it, deleted it because it was utter rubbish and glad they did not buy it.
On the other hand, great movie, go and buy it for the collection. :D - tower31, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Maybe he though mentioning ice age would make the idiots look as if the actually possessed skill and cunning. However, as we all know, movies are released on the net all of the time before the movies release date. Am I impressed? NO.
- tokyotechy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Man they sell these all over the UK. Boot sales etc etc etc. I couldn't walk home from the DLR to my flat in Greenwich (200m) without passing a guy with a blanket spread out with these things on it.
- DubbleA, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Do those pc's have 10 dvd drives in them???!!! Thats kinda cool! must use big fans...
- Pixiewarrior, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Possibly because at the time of the bust IceAge 2 hadn't even been released at the cinemas!! The fact that the criminals were selling it before the release qualifies this as news.
- darrenford, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1thanks brownb2, it never occurred to me that people would take that seriously.
- BobCrabtree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If you click on the pic, you'll get a larger version, and this shows, I think, that there are eight burners in each tower.
- Madnesswithin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Good they got busted!
- Computer_Kid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It must sound like a jet taking off!
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