STAR TREK - RAID ON MALAYSIAN WAREHOUSE NETS 35,000 BOOTLEG DVD'S

RAID ON MALAYSIAN WAREHOUSE NETS 35,000 BOOTLEG DVD'S

In one of the biggest raids on DVD pirates ever, Malaysian police officers, accompanied by a disk-sniffing Labrador named Paddy, have seized 35,000 pirate DVD movies at six warehouses, published reports said Wednesday. Several of the films are currently in theaters, including Star Trek, Terminator Salvation, Angels & Demons and Night at the Museum Battle of the Smithsonian . In a statement, Mike Ellis, who heads the Asia regional branch of the Motion Picture Association of America, said, "We are glad to hear that Paddy's skills are being put to good use against the large, organized network of pirates involved in exporting illegal pirated DVDs to Singapore." Singapore, a close neighbor of Malaysia, is the principal trading center of the region.

04/06/2009