Game Pirates Get Busted
Videogame piracy has always been overshadowed by music and movie piracy. Still, over the years, I've heard estimates putting the bootleg games at roughly a $3 billion annual drain. Today, here's news via Edge about what's claimed to be the biggest raid on game pirates ever:
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Raids on videogame pirates continue in the U.K.
The Entertainment & Leisure Software Publishers Association said Monday that authorities recently raided an illegal counterfeiting operation--one that had been previously warned by the HMRC (Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs).
The January 29 raid turned up over 50K copies of illegal game copying devices, as well as counterfeit peripherals for Wii, Xbox 360 and PS3. ELSPA has sent seized items in for forensic testing.
The allegedly offending company's name has been withheld for "legal reasons," ELSPA said. Mailbags at the raid location were reportedly filled with illegal product and ready to ship across Europe.
Leading up to the raid, ELSPA investigators made several "covert test purchases" on the company's website. The organization claimed the business imported over 38K illegal copying devices, with 32K of them imported since December 2008.
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