If you have ever bought a VCD that was a little too cheap to be legal and if it smelled like fish, here is why. In Malaysia the pirates now produce pirated VCDs on ships to avoid being caught. The production is done at high sea and the products are delivered at the coastline.
The manufacturers produce thousands of pirated copies on board ships anchored in international waters. They will then dock their vessels at the various ports or jetties along the state's coastline to drop off their products," he told AFP. |
Mazlan said the marine police had been asked to be on the lookout for the pirate ships in the busy Malacca Straits between Malaysia and Indonesia.
Police in Penang last week launched "Operation Green Ribbon" to nab peddlers of illegal CDs and VCDs and Mazlan said they had already arrested four retailers and seized over 1,000 pirated copies.
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Source: Malaysiakini.com
