According to an article on the Yahoo! News website New York robbers are targeting a new industry, namely the CD counterfeiters. According to the article the New York City counterfeiters can generate revenues at roughly $250,000 a day, making them the perfect target for robbers:
An armed robber shot Guinean immigrant Ablia Diallo to death Tuesday in a midtown Manhattan office stuffed with counterfeit CDs and DVDs, including recent releases "8 Mile" and "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets," police said. In July, gunmen robbing a bootleg video business near the Empire State Building opened fire, wounding two West African immigrants working there. |
Police have not linked the shootings, but investigators are looking at whether violence more typical of the drug trade is moving into what had been a low-risk illegal business.
"The two shootings in New York City over the last couple of months are not something that we normally see," said Frank Creighton, director of anti-piracy for the Recording Industry Association of America. "Typically it doesn't escalate to this level of violence."
New York City produces about two-thirds of the American nation's pirate CDs according to the recording industry. CD and DVD manufacturers now can set up an operation capable of churning out hundreds of discs daily for $2,500, a tenth of the cost three years ago.
Source: Yahoo! News
