Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association books success against pirates

Police officers from the Peel Regional Police Street Crime Unit (Canada) have arrested a 22 yeard old man from Oshawa who was selling pirated copies of recent movies. He was selling the DVD discs from the back of his car in a parking lot. A week later there was another success as intelligence officers seized 325 counterfeit DVDs who were being sold from Soul Flexx Fashions, a store in Brampton, Canada. There was even another success.

On Friday, June 17, 2005, officers from Toronto Police, 52 Division Plainclothes Unit, arrested Rosanna GRAHAM, 32 yrs. of Mississauga and Takudzwa DECEMBER, 24 yrs of No Fixed Address and charged them both with Fraud Under $5000.00 and Possession Under in regards to the seizure of 170 counterfeit DVDs. The seizure followed a police sting where GRAHAM was contacted at a phone number advertised in a flyer put out by GRAHAM and DECEMBER in the area of Central Technical School in Toronto. The flyer advertised DVDs for sale at 3 for $25.00 and included a list of titles of mostly new Hollywood theatrical releases. Officers ordered a number of copies of Star Wars III, Mr. & Mrs. Smith and The Interpreter and when the subjects delivered the order, they were arrested.

All this information comes from a press release of The Canadian Motion Picture
Distributors Association which is the Canadian affiliate of the Motion
Picture Association, the international counterpart of the Motion Picture
Association of America and represents a number of major U.S motion picture
studios in the Canadian distribution of feature films, television, pay TV and
home video. Seems they want to scare some pirates...

Source: Newswire