On April 13, 40 FBI agents seized more than 60,000 illegal products during five raids and arrested Chinese nationals in New York, according to a press release from Nintendo.
These guys were selling a product called Power Player, which contained dozens of pirated Nintendo games.
Not ones to do things by halves, the chaps had imported 27 containers with over 280,000 () pirated games in them!
Oops!After several meetings, the defendants revealed to the undercover FBI agents the locations of their warehouses and provided information about their distribution network. On April 13, the undercover agents, posing as toy distributors, arrested the four defendants and confiscated illegal products, computers and business records.
Nintendo say that piracy cost them more than $860 MILLION in lost sales in 2004 alone... which is an enormous sum of anyones revenue...
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