How To Stop Piracy: Raid CD-R Moguls

Posted by Hemos on Friday December 27, 2002 @08:54PM from the get-the-wrong-people dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In what appears to be a not-so-legal move, Mexico's equivalent of the RIAA used federal police to raid the installations of Grupo Mekong, responsible for 200 of the 400 million virgin CDs imported each year, accusing them to be "capos" of the Piracy bussiness in Mexico. What is the rationale? Record companies buy only 20% of Mekong merchandise, so the other 80% must be going to pirates! Yeah, Never mind computer users ,independent labels or other legal uses. You can see the article here but what amazes me is the behaviour! What will the next step be? Raid the truck companies who deliver the CDs? "

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Link is in Spanish by videodriverguy · 2002-12-27 21:07 · Score: 0, Redundant

It might have been worth pointing out that the linked article is in Spanish, for those slashdotters who actually read the articles but can't speak Spanish.
English translation by Maskirovka · 2002-12-27 21:09 · Score: 0, Redundant

Loose english translation here