Hong Kong / Kuala Lumpur – Malaysian authorities including Malaysian Federation Against Copyright Theft (MFACT) which represents the Motion Picture Association (MPA) in Malaysia, took down a second pirate factory in Johor on Nov. 23. It is the 10th such operation to be stopped this year and occurred just 14km away from the Nov. 20 raid in another palm oil estate. Based on a tip-off, the raid on the unlicensed factory saw authorities seize two VCD replicating machines capable of producing over seven million pirated discs yearly with a potential revenue of over US$20 million, but made no arrests. Also seized were 50 silkscreens of various movie titles, 200 DVD movie stampers and 500 music CDs. Among the movie stampers seized were MPA member titles including Ghost Rider, Happy Feet, Flags of Our Fathers and Eragon as well as Chinese and Korean movie titles.
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