News - Men behind Britain's biggest DVD piracy scam jailed for six years

[HEXUS]

Father and two sons who made in the region of £7m from pirate DVDs sentenced to up to six years in jail.

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[Jay]

I hate to say this but I am not suprised to see that these guys didn't have English names

[Arthran]

indeed, its depressing that i expected both the benefits claiming and foreign names.

[Flash477]

Blimey and the cheeky buggers were claiming benefits too

For seven million quid 6 years is not that much of a detterant - they'll probably come out in 6 years and have earn't a nice load of interest on their ill gotten gains.

[Infinite]

gg

How many dvds must they have sold to get 7 million? Q_Q

[Singh400]

I hate to say this but I am not suprised to see that these guys didn't have English names

Errrr, I don't have an English name, does that make me a pirate?

For seven million quid 6 years is not that much of a detterant - they'll probably come out in 6 years and have earn't a nice load of interest on their ill gotten gains.

I would doubt they were allowed to keep that, it was probably frozen and the government took it.

[AGTDenton]

indeed, its depressing that i expected both the benefits claiming and foreign names.

Why else do people come to the UK.

They could have been more clever about it and had a front by starting up a music publishing business for rubbish never going to hear of bands & pop singers. Pah why didnt I think of this earlier I could be £7m richer.

[Jay]

Errrr, I don't have an English name, does that make me a pirate?

Show me where I said all people who don't have English names are pirates.... I must have missed that bit.

[Singh400]

Show me where I said all people who don't have English names are pirates.... I must have missed that bit.

Touché

[Breezey]

Errrr, I don't have an English name, does that make me a pirate?

Yes

[mercyground]

police are still unable to trace the millions of pounds made by the operation.

Still earning interest somewhere then.

[GoNz0]

Yes

u mean


YARRR

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Come on guys(or girls) what has a person's name or ethnicity good to do with crime in general??

Whether or not there are immigrants in a country there will be crime in Blighty - after all where did Ronnie Biggs or the Krays come from after all!!!??

Why else do people come to the UK.

What about all the immigrants and children of immigrants who are hard working and law abiding citizens then?? It pisses me off when the only time immigrants are mentioned is when someone can fire a cheap shot at them. Pathetic especially considering our history in the last 3000 years. Most of our common ancestors were immigrants from Europe at some point in the past.

[Grey M@a]

gg

How many dvds must they have sold to get 7 million? Q_Q

If I was to go off their report at selling them for as little as £3 each, that would make 2,333,333 dvd's sold to make 7 million quid Not bad going there although looking at the picture of their copying setup and they said they had numerous addresses with it happening, it was probably easy for them to make this money.

[Jay]

If they had such a huge customer base the film companies should have signed them up as distributors

[Grey M@a]

If they had such a huge customer base the film companies should have signed them up as distributors

Or charge a decent amount for a DVD, local HMV, Borders, Blockbusters all ask around £18 for a blu ray and £10 - £14 for a dvd. It's no wonder why people buy copies at £3 a piece.