Hong Kong/Thailand: The Motion Picture Association (MPA), Economic and Technological Crime Suppression Division (ECOTEC) of the Royal Thai Police on February 19, 2008, raided a Bangkok residence and seized 170 DVD-R and 30 CD-R burners, along with 45,000 pirated DVD-Rs and CD-Rs as well as 22,000 artwork sleeves.

Six locals including three men and three women were arrested. Among the seized property were 1,000 discs infringing MPA member company titles including Aliens vs. Predator 2, Charlie Wilson’s War and Cloverfield.

The lab allegedly supplied pirated discs at THB30 (US$1) to vendors in Bangkok who then retail them for THB100 (US$3). The seized burners are estimated to have been capable of producing 5 million pirated discs a year and yield potential revenues of US$15 million. A total of 142 and 1,282 burners were seized from Thai pirates in 2006 and 2007 respectively.

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