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- 16x9, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Now THAT'S the kind of stuff I support the MPAA and the RIAA doing. Go after the real freakin' pirates and stop screwing the average person who simply wants to back up their DVD so the kids don't scratch the hell out of it.
- error401, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The title makes it sound like the disks were in a massive RAID. Or maybe I'm just geekier than most.
It's just another south-asian bust of pirated DVDs and CDs. - gwjc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It does kind of remind me of how Dvorak's always going on about "if they had any balls, they'd go into the pirate markets in Malaysia", etc. But yeah, it certainly is an improvement on trying to sue/bankrupt/imprison some poor kid sitting in a dorm room trying to listen to their favorite song.
- ConceptJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm surprised they didn't state their potential loss from these 1.8 million discs as 72 trillion dollars, they way they inflate their damages against the people they sue.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2they arnt realy dvd's thier VCD's and the CDR's used to duplicate Pirated DVD's or Bootlegger Movies are burnt onto a CD using VCD format then sold.
Since the CD's used are cheaper.. the CD's ion Coating dies off quiker (2-3 weeks)
this meens VCD is rendered useless after a few weeks of bieng played into the vcd player.
Vendors can only buy these cheap CDR's becuase Memorex (An American Import CDR) costs alot in the philippines, so they have to buy locally made CD's WHICH SUCK NUTS. If the vendor bought american imported CDR then they would need to sell thier Pirated videos for 160 pesos which is the equivelent to $3 ? or something
rather than spending that much money they buy localy made CD's worth 5 peso per CD (.001 cents CND) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What's sad is that if someone is pirating your movies and doing almost no real financial damage to your company, you can get an FBI/POLICE RAID! On the other hand, if your spouse runs off with your kid or someone is stalking you or you are raped - you're pretty much out of ***** luck. Glad to see the authorities have their priorities straight.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1MISLEADING TITLE
In the title, it says "MPAA and Police" when it should almost certainly read "MPAA Police". - molecool, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1[quote]Excellent - this is the kind of piracy the MPAA/RIAA should be going after - the folks who are actually charging money for another person's content, not the kid with the crappy encoding trying to push it onto the net.[quote]
I agree - although the economic effect could be debated (would people in these regions buy legal content anyway?) I must say that those pirates are making personal gains by selling copyrighted works. If you were a filmmaker you would not appreciate this happening either - on the other hand kids copying movies to each other is simply an aggrevation the MPAA will have to live with. - JimXugle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow... for once they didnt screw someone over... I'm almost impressed.
- Gneisbaard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That is a big raid configuration!
- johnhummel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Excellent - this is the kind of piracy the MPAA/RIAA should be going after - the folks who are actually charging money for another person's content, not the kid with the crappy encoding trying to push it onto the net.
Wow - I agree with the RIAA on something. I think I need to sit down a second. - gwjc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1sorry to say puneypunk; but you're an order or magnitude too high on your 1.8million
it should be 1,800,000 / 942,000 = $1.91 per disk - which is still funny; at least they're being closer to honest about the cost of a disk for once. either way, thanks for the digg dude! - generalleoff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Heh, yea I kinda want to see what Dvorak says about them growing some balls. And speaking of people on TWiT saying things that are just wrong... Anyone figure out how to kick a head down the street in GTA yet like Leo's kid can do? I haven't :)
Anyway good move for the MPAA. - addisonj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I am no fan of the RIAA or MPAA, but hey, 1.8 million in fake DVD's is pretty big chunk of change and just a small portion of the total amount of piracy. I think when people are selling them that is when it crosses the line... i have no problem with joe bob who wants to back up his DVD
- super_structure, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"First of all ohgr Russia and Japan (Japan is just protected) is not a territory of the United States so the MPAA would be extremely hard to go there legally. But the Philippines on the other hand is a territory of the United States."
They're not exactly a territory like Guam or Puerto Rico and we don't really get to just tell their government or police what to do. Remember Marcos? Anyway, from Wikipedia:
"[The Philippines] came under U.S. control and in 1935, its status was upgraded to that of a U.S. Commonwealth. Independence for the Philippines was finally granted on July 4, 1946, after the Japanese invasion and occupation of the islands during World War II." - digglugg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1despite many of the commments here, I think it is safe to say that the RIAA/MPAA has been doing this all along. They have been in the 12345 recently busting bodegas who openly sell bootleg dvd/cd's. The RIAA/MPAA collected a lot of cash too during the raids, apparently bootlegs are lucrative and safer than selling drugs or slavery.
- SweetsGreen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1crap...this means I'm gonna have to pay an extra buck for those DVD's in chinatown
- AttroPheed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1somehow i think this tactic is more effective than suing housewives.
- sgibbers17, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I also thought that the title was talking about a RAID instead of a raid, to clear this up disk should be disc. But great digg tho.
- adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"The title makes it sound like the disks were in a massive RAID. Or maybe I'm just geekier than most."
No, thats how read it too at first.... - Klesh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I don't get it. How can they use the Police/FBI as their puppets...isn't a constitutional violation to work as a government entity or something?
- digglugg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Oh better yet.. they should try busting pirates in my neck of the woods. You can buy pirated Movies from Big Black Jamacians in broad daylight, on a police patrolled street, for $5's straight out of the movies. And the Cops don't mind it either. That's Camden New Jersey MPAA.. 08105. Impress me please."
I doubt that the cops do not care. It's just that they can not just walk up and arrest someone for this activity. I know, I know, I must be crazy right, smoking the rope, but the deal is that a kid just out of law school could get this type of arrest thrown out. Instead, it requires a period of observation and then investigation to make a case that would hold up in court. - iSEPIC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@ohgr - they should start their own netflix style.. instead of popping them in the mail, you can just take it back down to the street, for your next one....... I know this is the same as downtown NYC too... can find it everywhere, seems like circa 1998 Hong Kong now.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0a million? WTF!?
- BugMeNot2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Oooh the MPAA are badass muthafukas!
- synmoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah I read that as them having a massive RAID Array ha
- chabuhi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Tip of the iceberg but nice that they're going after real crooks for a change.
- min_t, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's not really $1 million+ dollars. I'm guessing they busted the street vendors who sell them for $2.00 a disk. MPAA (in my country, PAA literally means *****, doodoo, turd) probably used the retail value of the disks in the USA to inflate the value of what was confiscated.
You gotta love the propaganda. I sure would like to see them try and bust Thailand and it's organized crime connection. "Always the little people" should be the mPAA moto. - xelloss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Thats what they should be doing.
- ZacT1984, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A million is nuts. Well, since it is overseas.
- Sirocco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Meh, I'll have someone new to buy from next week.
- shelby1076, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Regardless of how they swing it, based on their figures, that's less than $2 per disk.
How are the pir8s doing it for so little?
MPAA should take some pointers so they could pass the savings onto the consumers. - angelwspr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0they raided a mall. wow! real cloak and dagger aren't they... ;p
- p014k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I agreed with 16x9. These are the type of raids that the they should be doing. Not going after an average person backing up their movies.
@error401: Heh, massive raid config :) Wonder if they were running it at raid 0 or raid 1 :P - imjustabill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A millions disk RAID? Either this guy had the bigest data center in the world, or he was using floppy disks.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm wondering if that dollar amount is what they perceive as being their losses in revenue or the dollar amount of the media and equipment used to manufacture these fakes.
- joeyjojo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"here and it's even illegal to rent video games or sell them 2nd hand!"
Whoa. that's really nuts. - joeyjojo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"I don't get it. How can they use the Police/FBI as their puppets...isn't a constitutional violation to work as a government entity or something?"
Did you forget that our country is now run by a board of directors consisting of the Oil industry, the media industry, and pharma industry? All laws that are now passed must benefit one of those three industries. - borderpatrol, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nice RAID aray!
- DeadlyCouncil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Not a million disk RAID array guys, a million optical discs, as in CD's or DVD's. The title is only misleading to those of us who know wtf a RAID is... so like all of Digg.
- vidar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0They're just using the cost of blank media in that figure, cause the cost of pirated movies is nothing. Hehe
- gwjc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0> jkfan87:
Maybe I just don't read stories like this one carefully enough: http://digg.com/music/Mom_Sued_by_RIAA_Broke,_Passing_the_Hat_on_Net
Perhaps you mean they're suing them for 'sharing' them.. but with most p2p software it's just splitting hairs. - ballbag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Dugg simply 'cause of the creative name - "Big Broom"!
- spartan777, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i never thought i'd hear "phillipine" and "cooperate" in the same sentence, let alone "phillipine police," and "cooperate."
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0MPIAA will never stop piracy, its a pipeline dream long wished for. Specialy in the philippines where half the vendors sell pirated films. Who wouldnt wanna buy pirated films... its cheaper than the real thing and they have more important ***** to worry about such as food. The last thing on thier mind is buying a legit copy of the DVD when theres pirated videos avalable everywhere you go. MPAA is just waisting thier time in asia, they should stick to a non 3rd world country...
Poverty + survival = Crime, aperantly 1+1 does not = 2 to MPAA. Asia is a way difrent culture and should be left alone. Why the ***** is america trying to police the world. No wonder almost every nation hates them.. - ionix18, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0To the guys who said that the big pirating is in Japan. No way, there is almost no pirating here and it's even illegal to rent video games or sell them 2nd hand! China is big on piracy, Japan is not. (Couldn't even find a modchip website in Japan...)
- nugget, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Damn, If I can could buy DVDs for bucks, I would never pirate anything. Damn if they were comparable to renting it I would rent a whole lot less.
- 5blocksfree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0As I read the story, something became apparent - this could easily become the newest form of not exactly contraban, but something similar. In other words, it's a battle that will never be won. There will always be clandestine groups looking for easy money, government officials accepting bribes to look the other way, and people willing to buy- not too unlike what's currently happening in the illicit drug trade. Have any of the arrests, "sweeps" or other operations made even a DENT in the availability of certain popular drugs?
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