Forum - View topicNEWS: Italian Police Seize 400 Pirated Anime Titles
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shintot
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"The pirated copies were packaged in the same way as regular products, and between about 20,000 and 30,000 copies were sold each month for about 25 euros (roughly 3,500 yen) each"
Hmmm, darn better than drug dealing. If someone is willing to pay $35USD for a pirated DVD in the US, I know people who'd make a fortune... |
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v1cious
 Posts: 6202 Location: Houston, TX |
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400 dvds? that's a pretty small raid.
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shintot
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"Titles sold at this business and other businesses being investigated reportedly accounted for over 90 percent of all pirated copies on the Italian market, as well as 60 percent of all titles that include genuine products. Estimated earnings from the illegal sales were as much as 900,000 euros (about 130 million yen) a year." I think it's safe to say there were quite a bit more than 400 DVD's, there were 400 titles, who knows how many of each. |
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jmays
ANN Associate Editor
 Posts: 1390 Location: St. Louis, MO |
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Yeah, stupid headline--sorry. |
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LydiaDianne
 Posts: 5633 Location: Southern California |
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**gives awed whistle**
That's a lot of titles and money. No wonder they're willing to risk it. Sort of dumb if you ask me. At least having THAT many titles in public view. Of course, money, money and MORE MONEY! Of course, the only thing dumber would be going to an Anime Con with unlicensed or pirated merchandise. If I remember correctly that is what happened at an Anime Expo a few years ago. Some Bandai (again, if I remember correctly) employees were walking around and noticed illegal items. Those vendors were "asked" to leave! And to never return again, thank you very much! 
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one3rd
 Posts: 1817 Location: アメリカ |
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They were probably full series rather than individual volumes. |
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fighterholic
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A lot of merhandise. Bootlegs can go for as low as five bucks, right? 35 dollars? I haven't heard of that kind of price.
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larinon
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Bravo!
Now if only they would raid ebay next... |
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Defiant7
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I agree. Its too easy for people to sell bootlegs, I used to rent Anime DVDs from a video store in Calgary. About a year ago I saw them start to rent a few Bootlegs which I was not happy about. I was back in there a few months ago and their entire new release wall for anime was bootlegs. In only a few months they went from renting licensed versions to bootlegs, (and for full rental price at that) No way I am going to rent a bootleg or buy for that matter. |
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cyrax777
 Posts: 1825 Location: the desert |
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you would be suprised theres a store here alot of the local anime fans boycott out of principal becouse they sell "imported cd's" aka Son May and Ever anime Bootlegs for like 20-40 a pop. sad thing alot of people get duped and think "no way if there illegal theres no way these would on the shelves" |
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fighterholic
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Course I think if you get them in Asia then they'll be cheap.
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Jadress
 Posts: 807 Location: Seattle. It purdy and nerdy! |
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Go Go Italia!! Quite an impressive raid. I agree about Ebay.. and other sell-it-yourself outlets, like Amazon as well. It's easy for people who don't know what they're doing to buy bootlegs, thinking it's legit. I know my parents made that mistake for me before one Christmas.
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kashim
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Hi, i'm a new user and i'm from Italy (sorry for my bad bad english). The Italian police very probably seized chinese dvd anime bootleg, because in Roma and Bologna there are stores that are specialized on selling those type of bootleg imported in Italy by a society named "Daito Anime".
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Egrimm
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hikaru004
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Yeah Italy!
Now if only the FBI would learn from the Italian police and get the US stores that are doing this. |
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