MUMBAI: On 16 November, a team of 20 officers from the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs (MDTCA), with support from the Malaysian Federation Against Copyright Theft (MFACT), representing the Motion Picture Association (MPA) raided a pirate optical disc burner lab located in a suburb near the capital. The team was led to the two-storey house following a tip from an informant.
A total of 340 optical disc burners were seized making it the largest burner lab busted this year. The burners could have produced 18 million pirated discs per year, generating a potential revenue of US$52 million. Two male and two female workers aged between 24 and 40 were arrested.
The raiding party also seized two vehicles, 23 printers, 1,315 pirated discs, 3,200 blank DVD-Rs and 5,000 blank CD-Rs.
It is believed that the lab has been in operation for more than a year and is a major supplier of pirated discs to street vendors throughout the
