The Fiscal Police in Catania (GdF) raided an organization involved in the production and distribution of pirate CDs and DVDs in Catania, East Sicily, early in March. The operation led to the seizure of 63 high speed CD burners more than 15,000 illegal CDs and DVDs, in addition to seven professional printers. Two individuals were arrested during the raid.
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into a new business ? lol - you must be joking - they have been doing it since cd burners began . However in this case, it was probably just a local teenager as the Mafia insiders on the Police force would have tipped the Mafia off if they were targetting mafia operations.
Quote:I'm willing to bet until the bust, they were probably making a pretty decent little living for themselves.
Quote:However, last month, news out of Italy showed that the Italian parliament may have accidentally legalized some P2P music.
I think, just my opinion here, that downloading is one thing while downloading with intent to make money from is another.
Not all pirates are bad? ;-)
I agree. To download a song is one thing, but to try to make money off of it is another. I don't really want to support the RIAA, but selling their product, to me, crosses the line.
On the other hand, I feel like the RIAA is stealing from me to charge that much for a CD, which is usually not very good anyway. If they would charge $5 a CD, the probably wouldn't have as many of these "piracy issues".
Quote:The Fiscal Police in Catania (GdF) raided an organization involved in the production and distribution of pirate CDs and DVDs in Catania, East Sicily, early in March. The operation led to the seizure of 63 high speed CD burners more than 15,000 illegal CDs and DVDs, in addition to seven professional printers. Two individuals were arrested during the raid.
Sounds like a mom and pop rig that did'nt pay the mafia "protection", so they got busted.Another police photo-op.
Originally posted by jove: shame on you slysoft! this is in part ur faul!!!
Why is it Slysoft's fault?
DON'T SELL THINGS YOU DO NOT OWN!
Simple
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