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Melbourne police burn $1.3 million pirated DVDs

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Melbourne police burn $1.3 million pirated DVDs
Posted by Jan Willem
Posted on 26/11/04 17:41
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Melbourne police burn $1.3 million pirated DVDs

heystoopid used our news submit to tell us: "Previously, I submitted an article about the arrest of a Melbourne resident, who sold illegal copies of a variety of DVD"s at various local Sunday markets in this fair city. It seems that the inquirer chose to make a pun, about the shredding, strangely look at the comment about the supposed changes to security encryption of DVD's, I find that most intriguing, since when has DECCS been upgraded?"

Apparently DVD makers were constantly working to find new technologies to prevent the copying of their films but criminals were cracking them just as fast.According to Associated Press, Commander Terry Perton of Victoria Police stood smiling at the bottom of the conveyor belt as hundreds of dodgy copies of Shrek, Nemo and American Pie 2 shattered into splinters.

He told Associated Press that it was very pleasing to think that there"s $1.3 million of pirated DVDs being shredded and that"s $1.3 million that hasn"t been put in the hands of crooks.

It seems that the industry also makes use of the general non-knowlegde of journalists when it comes to technical subjects. We have seen many cases where journalists have helped spreading information like; illegal software would be often infected with virusses or could make your computer malfunction.

In this case they seem to be communicating that DVD publishers are trying to develop new technologies to protect their content while movie copy protections are hardly find their way to the market.

Source: TheInquirer.net





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LOL. $1.3 mln is a drop in the ocean compare to the things happening at the Russian market.

Last month my pal there bought me rare so called "bootlegs" of like Genesis, Yes, Led Zeppelin, Page/Plant, Sylvian/Fripp, Bill Bruford, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Bjé¶rk, King Crimson...for just $3 á piece.

Man, it's a multi-billion business there. And who would ever dare to stop it ? If you know what I mean.
;))
WE MUST GET THEIR WMDs!!!
The cops prefer going to the marijuana burns because the smell of plastic and polycarbonate just doesn't do it for them :X
$1.3 million worth? According to the magic calculators that the MPAA uses, that's only like 2 dvds.:)
They must have som multiburner. :B
At what speed?:)

Did they had a choice to recycle?
Every so often you hear about these 'victories' where the press is invited to marvel at the wonderful work the police are doing, and the police get some good PR from the local tax-paying community. But that's all it is, really. Public Relations. The problem(s) is(are) far, far deeper than these PR shindigs.
Well I don't know about the Aussie police, but a colleague told me that he used to work in an RUC (N. Ireland "police force") station in North Belfast and when they raided local open-air markets for counterfeit/stolen goods (ie drink, games, movies, clothing etc), they would bring their spoils back to the station and divide them up amongst them. Which, given the criminal nature of the RUC, does not surprise me.
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