Music pirates face state, local crackdown in Florida



cloakdoa used our newssubmit to tell us that a woman in Florida, The United States has been charged with copying of CDs of some of the nation's hottest markets when she showed up at the Fun Lan Swap Shop in Tampa with 3,777 disks. Police said she was selling the CDs at a fraction of the $15.98 a copy charged by many retail stores.



State agents conducted one major raid on CD sellers, using tips from the association's detectives and other sources. In one sweep in late November, agents searched for 40,000 counterfeit CDs from Jacksonville through the Tampa Bay area. "We got a complaint from store owner and called the Recording Industry Association of America and got they got involved," said Special Agent William Miles.

"We initially two arrests off initial complaint and then we expanded the case because it looked like going all over the state," the FDLE agent said. "It culminated Nov. 20 at close to 100 locations throughout the state."

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Source: Upi.com

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