3 BURNER LABS HIT IN RAID COUNTERFEITING MEDIA CHARGES AGAINST MAN.Byline: Greg Hernandez Staff Writer Three downtown labs capable of producing up to $3 million in pirated DVDs and CDs were raided by the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Sheriff's Department and resulted in the arrest of a man already on probation for felony felony (fĕl`ənē), any grave crime, in contrast to a misdemeanor, that is so declared in statute or was so considered in common law. counterfeiting counterfeiting, manufacturing spurious coins, paper money, or evidences of governmental obligation (e.g., bonds) in the semblance of the true. There must be sufficient resemblance to the genuine article to deceive a person using ordinary caution. , the Motion Picture Association of America announced Friday. Among the items seized by deputies were approximately 5,000 DVD-Rs, 3,000 CD-Rs, eight burner A drive that writes write-once optical discs such as CD-Rs and DVD-Rs. A "burner" implies a one-time recording, but the term is erroneously used to refer to drives that "write" to re-recordable CD-RW and DVD-RW/+RW media as well. See burn, CD-R and DVD-R. towers containing 60 burner trays and two industrial copying machines. ``It was a nice-sized raid, but the unfortunate reality is that there are many burner labs like this located in the greater L.A. area and throughout the country because this is a very large problem and a profitable industry for crooks,'' said John G. Malcom, MPAA MPAA abbr. Motion Picture Association of America executive vice president and director of worldwide anti-piracy. The raid was conducted Thursday and was the culmination of a joint investigation between sheriff's deputies, the MPAA and the Recording Industry Association of America. ``We have many common enemies so we are sharing information and working together,'' Malcom said. ``Any investigation we do together is a good thing.'' The MPAA estimates that member companies, including the entertainment industry's major film studios, lost $3.5 billion in revenue last year from movies being pirated and sold on the streets. That total does not include losses due to the illegal downloading of movies on the Internet. The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America, Washington, DC, www.riaa.com) A membership association of music recording companies. Its goal is to promote the record label industry and protect the rights of copyright owners. It was a major contributor to the SDMI digital distribution system. estimates it loses more than $300 million each year from street sales of pirated goods. ``Producing pirated music is not victimless crime,'' stated Brad Buckles This article is about the comic strip. For the fastener, see Buckle Buckles is a comic strip by David Gilbert about the misadventures of a naïve dog. Buckles debuted on March 25, 1996. , the RIAA's executive vice president of anti-piracy. ``While the pirates' pockets are lined with profits from the sale of illegal music, record labels' ability to invest in new bands of tomorrow is undermined.'' The arrested man, Rodrigo Hernandez, is expected to be charged with trademark counterfeiting. Greg Hernandez, (818) 713-3758 greg.hernandez(at)dailynews.com!dtpost |
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