According to an Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) news briefing, on May 29 a home in Pengang, Malaysia was raided for piracy of optical discs. The raid was carried about by ten Malaysian enforcement officers, accompanied by Motion Picture Association (MPA) represenatives.
The raiding party arrested a 42-year-old man, seized 200 DVD burners, 83 CD burners, as well as 15,800 blank DVD-recordable discs. The MPA estimates that the DVD burning lab was capable of creating 8,760,000 DVDs per year, yielding a revenue over $28million USD.
Of course, this is just a fraction of what the MPA would make if all discs were purchased legally for an average price of $20USD per disc, that would result in a $175,200,000USD payout.
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You know what the craziest part of this article is the fact that the guy had almost 16000 blank DVDs in his house. How do you even buy that many?
probably didnt have that many you know they have to inflate the numbers to make the guy look like a super criminal mastermind.
I think you’d have to have an army of help to keep 200 DVD burners running all the time I can barely keep up with my two burners.