Russia has currently a lot more problems then only piracy, but still the country is trying to fight the piracy of CDs and DVDs. Unfortunately organized crime is pretty strong in the country and authorities responsible for figthing piracy should fear their life.
Recently the director of the Russian Anti-Piracy Organization had been shot, and also the office of this organisation has been made safe, by using bullet proof doors. But it does not seem to hurt the pirates, the export of the Russian pirated CD/DVDs seems to be expanding:
What is perhaps most worrisome, the police and officials said, is the growing number of local business groups that have begun producing DVD's. As many as six Russian factories are now pumping out unlicensed DVD's, the officials say. Only a quarter of the estimated two million DVD's to be sold in Russia this year were produced legally, and the Russian-made DVD's are turning up in markets in the West. |
"Before it was a problem with the import of illegal DVD's, but now they are made here," said Mr. Zemchenkov. "We've found Russian-made DVD's in Brighton Beach," a heavily Russian area of New York. "Now it's a problem not just for Russia but for Europe and the U.S.," he said.
It seems that pirated CD/DVDs is good business and becomes very populair with criminals that don't even hesitate to kill for it. Read the entire story here.
Source: Nytimes.com
