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Largest-ever video game piracy raid in UK history
By Hector Cortez Feb 2, 2009, 18:04 GMT
Business premises in Camden were raided last week, resulting in the largest ever seizure of illegal game copying devices in the UK.
Business premises in Camden were raided last week, resulting in the largest ever seizure of illegal game copying devices in the UK. The company, which cannot yet be named for legal reasons, continued its illegal trade online, despite receiving seizure notices from authorities.
The raid, carried out on the 29th of January, resulted in the discovery of more than 50,000 illegal game copying devices, along with counterfeit games console peripherals for the Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The seized items have now been sent for forensic examination.
Prior to the raid, several covert test purchases were made from the company's website by investigators as part of their ongoing activity against IP theft.
The business is believed to have imported more than 38,000 illegal game copying devices, some 32,000 of them imported since December 2008.
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