p2pnet.net News:- Shanghai stores selling “ unauthorized DVDs” are closing down to avoid having the their wares seized in police raids, and sidewalk sellers are also keeping their heads down for the same reason.

Shanghai is shortly to be the scene of an international film festival and the idea is to put counterfeit copies of Sith and TV shows such as Friends out of reach – “at least for now,” says the Associated Press.

"To crack down against the pirate DVDs is our job and duty," it has Lan Yiming, deputy head of Shanghai’s culture inspection bureau, saying.

The festival, the 8th, is the only one of its kind in China. It runs for nine days starting Saturday and, “Lan said the anti-piracy sweep also aims to prevent the embarrassment of actors and film professionals attending the festival seeing pirated versions of their films for sale,” says AP.

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Associated Press - Shanghai Cracks Down on Pirated Movies, June 7, 2005

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