The Motion Picture Association (MPA) ended its “Operation Red Card” anti-piracy campaign in mid-July, declaring victory and citing a record number of illegal disc and optical disc burner seizures, the industry group said Tuesday.
Coinciding approximately with this year’s World Cup soccer tournament, the MPA worked with local law enforcement agencies throughout Asia to provide information about alleged pirates and piracy activities, and often accompanied officers on their raids.
About 6,700,000 optical discs were seized in the raids, along with 1,483 optical disc burners, and the arrest of 915 suspects, all of which surpassed earlier records for similar campaigns, the MPA said.
Thailand saw the most raids, with 573 conducted. Indonesia had the largest number of optical discs seized, with 2,156,341, while in Taiwan, the greatest number of optical disc burners, 483, were confiscated. Police actions also took place in China, Hong Kong, India, and Malaysia.
Its like that allo over 3rd world countries. Remember back when I was in the Gulf and my dad mentioned over the phone how he had just gone to see Jurassic Park I think it was and bought him a copy in the Souk for like 2 dinars and mailed it to him.
Interesting claims. However a soldier recently returned from Iraq told me that the latest “Pirates” movie by Disney–still in theatres right now–can be bought on the streets in Iraq for about $1.00 American. Maybe we should put the pirates (the video pirates that is) in charge of getting running water and electricity for the Iraquis. They seem to be pretty good (much better than the occupying Americans) at supplying things in extremely hostile situations.