LARGEST EVER PIRATE DVD MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTION FACILITY RAIDED

The Metropolitan Police and Waltham Forest Trading Standards in a joint initiative with FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft) on Wednesday raided a major pirate DVD manufacturing facility and made five arrests. The premises contained over 500 individual DVD burners capable of producing over 60,000 pirate DVDs per day, with an estimated daily street value in excess of £250,000 (c. £1.7m per week).