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My, my, my, I am *so* glad that our Attorney General can take time out from his busy schedule fighting terrorists to help keep the world safe for the RIAA. What *would* we do if we didn't have John Ashcroft on the case? I'm sure I can sleep sounder and safer tonight knowing that West Philly is just a lot more crime-free than it was the day before.
Ross Bender
Posted on Sat, Apr. 24, 2004
23 accused of pirating music and movies
By Ira Porter
Inquirer Staff Writer
Twenty-three people were in police custody yesterday after their arrests Thursday night in connection with a West Philadelphia bootlegging ring that had ties to New York, police said. Police confiscated 42 DVD burners, 48 VCRs, computer equipment, and 45,000 to 50,000 CDs, VHS tapes and DVDs - many with movies and music recorded on them. The titles included two movies - Man on Fire and Soul Plane - that have yet to be released on the big screen, let alone on tape or DVD.
The arrests came after an investigation by the Southwest Detective Division, the Recording Industry Association of America, and the Motion Picture Association, authorities said.
April 23, 2004
DOJ Strikes at Global Online Piracy By Roy Mark Law enforcement officials took a swing at international online piracy Thursday in what the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is characterizing as the largest multi-national effort ever directed at intellectual property theft. No arrests were made but 120 search warrants were executed in 27 states and 10 foreign countries. The raids hit groups that specialize in the distribution of pirated works including utility and application software, movies, music and games and resulted in the seizure of more than 200 computers. According to the DOJ, one of the storage and distribution servers seized in the United States contained 65,000 separate pirated titles. "In the past 24 hours, working closely with our foreign law enforcement counterparts, we have moved aggressively to strike at the very core of the international online piracy world," Ashcroft said in his statement. |
