1.5 million blank CD-Rs confiscated in Italy thwarting pirates

The port Custom Authority of Genoa is responsible for the biggest ever seizure of blank cd-rs in Italy. The shipment was alleged to be destined for the pirate market. The 1,500,000 Princo CD-Rs were quarantined after an electronic sweep of shipping containers shipped from China to a company located in Naples.

According to Italian patent law the cd-rs imported from China are in violation of the legitimate copyright owner of the cd-r patent. The anti-fraud action from the Italian customs has very good consequences on the preventive operations against music piracy in Italy. The Italian Customs is using sophisticated scanner equipment to monitor the content of shipments from countries with a high level of counterfeiting in order to identify and stop pirate goods which are flowing into Italy damaging the national industry.

FPM, Italian antipiracy federation signed an agreement with the Italian Customs, the intent being to fight music piracy. A new agreement will be signed in the next few months in order to implement the recent development in the Customs regulation and in order to increase cooperation.

Source: mi2n.com