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Chinese Pirates in Spanish Waters

Posted on June 19, 2008

Spanish Police Crack Down on CD/DVD Piracy Operation Involving Chinese LaborSpanish police have disrupted an organized criminal syndicate based in Madrid that was producing counterfeit CDs and DVDs on an industrial scale. The group operated burners that could produce 150,000 CDs and DVDs each day, worth an estimated 600,000 daily (US$ 920,577) or 219 million annually (US$ 336 million). Police arrested 32 individuals, seized 466,000 blank discs and 306,500 recorded CDs and DVDs, 506 burners, and four delivery vehicles. Authorities also discovered that the gang was involved in human smuggl...

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