Fake DVDs worth Â£1m seized in raid at west London home

September 14, 2005

According to the BBC, police and investigators with
the British music industry's trade association (British Phonographic Industry)
along with some officers from Ealing Trading Standards, carried out a very successful raid in Park Lane, Southall. The report states
that the operation being run in a private residence was capable of producing
some 50,000 DVD's a day!

They took away Â£400,000 worth of counterfeit stock
and equipment as well as more than 50,000 CDs and DVDs which included
Bollywood hits Salaam Namaste and My Wife's Murder.

Also seized were 24 multi DVD burners, three photocopiers, three
computers, a labelling machine and thousands of blank CDs and DVDs, said
police.

This is quite an operation and we
have to wonder if the enormous volume was part of the reason the pirate
operation was discovered. To move this amount of marterial from a private home
on my block would be quite noticable. We know one thing, this is the largest
such operation uncovered to date in Western
Europe.

Source: BBC