MPAA nails REAL pirates for a change
p2pnet news | MPAA News:- “Little did San Jose police officer Chris Warren realize what he was stepping into Monday morning as he approached a modest ranch house on the city’s East Side that he thought was being burglarized.”
Reads like the intro to a Hollywood ‘B’ movie, don’t it?
Actually, it’s the lead to a Mercury News story on another bust, this time in the United States, and once again, inspired by Hollywood’s MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America).
Canada’s Mounties recently broke up an alleged Montreal counterfeit DVD ring and this time around, “Police officers found 400,000 DVDs and CDs in the four-bedroom home, stacked in boxes in every corner.”
Warren says it’s the largest counterfeit lab ever uncovered in Santa Clara County, “and one of the largest labs in Northern California”.
He went on that 16 to 20 people were apparently living in the house,” says the Mercury News, continuing:
Neighbors told police that a truck would come by the house every two days to load and unload boxes. In the garage of the Tomlinson Lane home, officers found six computer towers used to burn the movies and music, and several luggage-style carts apparently used by street vendors to sell the DVDs and CDs.
It’s refreshing, for a change, to see the MPAA going after the real crooks instead of kids.
Also See:
Mercury News – Police bust counterfeit DVD, CD ring, December 19, 2007
counterfeit DVD ring – Mounties bust fake DVD gang, December 20, 2007
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December 20th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
“Neighbors told police that a truck would come by the house every two days to load and unload boxes.”
how is that showing its a burglary? a truck every two days? as much as i see that these people deserved to be arrested, that still isn’t burgulary i mean really. i run a business and i have a truck that comes up every 3 days. why would any crook rob the same house every two days?
December 20th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
Boy what brillant folks. Busy suburbs sure are the place to do this kind of shit!
December 21st, 2007 at 2:55 am
I do agree that making money from selling these things is wrong (morally that is; I ignore the laws in copyright matters because they are clearly out of touch with reality and biased towards the content industry). However, I abhor the use of the word pirate in a copyright infringement context. The adoption was promoted by the movie, music, and software industries to suggest a greater severity of misconduct than is warranted. I ask that you please try to refrain from propagating this fabricated association Jon.
Of course, if the content industries had it there own way, people burning cd /dvds this way would have sentences more severe than murders and rapists. Lets consider the supposed crime for one moment…
They copied some digital content, and sold it on the black market ( or what ever you want to call it, ’street corner’ ?). To me, this seems like a minor moral infraction at worst. Yet, this seems to be considered as a hideous crime in our judicial systems; Why is that? My only conclusion is that the judicial systems are misaligned with the moral majority.
December 21st, 2007 at 3:57 am
Now this is the kind of action I support. I never buy DVDs on Ebay because the risk of not getting a genuine item is too big for me.
It still staggers me though, that the entertainment industry considers offences of this sort as worse than actual physical harm and even murder/rape/whatever.
In fact, I read in one of Bill Bryson’s books that a friend of his was a victim of ‘wrong place, wrong time’ with a drugs issue, and was sentenced more severely than he would have been if he had murdered someone. It rings so similarly to those falsely accused of sharing music – money is truly evil stuff.
December 22nd, 2007 at 6:28 pm
“money is truly evil stuff”.
Money isn’t evil, humans are (although what constitutes evil is a subjective matter). I believe we are capable of most things given the right circumstances. Greed is pervasive because we live in a capitalistic society where the hording of wealth is actually encouraged.