Piracy factory in UK busted

You’d expect to see pirated gaming software to be abundant in areas like South East Asia or China right? Well apparently the UK has it’s share of piracy problems too. Several raids at addresses across Wales, Cheshire and the Wirral resulted in the arrest of 10 people who have been allegedly selling illegally copied games, DVDs and CDs.

The raids were carried out at the ungodly hour of five in the morning on a Sunday. Good. If you’re going to do a raid, do it when they’re still waking up.

Anyway, the raid followed an operation to uncover rip-off merchants who claim benefits even though they’re making a living selling pirated goods. Products that they share with bargain hunters on Greenfield Market in Flintshire.

Three copying factories were discovered during the raid containing over a thousand Microsoft Xbox 360 game discs, several Game Boy Advance cartridges, plus an undisclosed number of Xbox and PlayStation 2 games. The seized goods had an estimated monetary value of £600,000. That’s a lot of pirated disks.

Those arrested were taken to police stations in North Wales and Cheshire. Reports don’t say where they took the thousand plus Xbox 360 games. They better make good use of those. Donate them to a hospital or something, or maybe distribute them to the unwashed masses.

You’d expect to see pirated gaming software to be abundant in areas like South East Asia or China right? Well apparently the UK has it’s share of piracy problems too. Several raids at addresses across Wales, Cheshire and the Wirral resulted in the arrest of 10 people who have been allegedly selling illegally copied games, DVDs and CDs.

The raids were carried out at the ungodly hour of five in the morning on a Sunday. Good. If you’re going to do a raid, do it when they’re still waking up.

Anyway, the raid followed an operation to uncover rip-off merchants who claim benefits even though they’re making a living selling pirated goods. Products that they share with bargain hunters on Greenfield Market in Flintshire.

Three copying factories were discovered during the raid containing over a thousand Microsoft Xbox 360 game discs, several Game Boy Advance cartridges, plus an undisclosed number of Xbox and PlayStation 2 games. The seized goods had an estimated monetary value of £600,000. That’s a lot of pirated disks.

Those arrested were taken to police stations in North Wales and Cheshire. Reports don’t say where they took the thousand plus Xbox 360 games. They better make good use of those. Donate them to a hospital or something, or maybe distribute them to the unwashed masses.