Alabama man pleads guilty to selling bootleg DVDs and CDs

[moviesgamesetc]

FINALLY there is justice. Sorry I can't find the article online to post the link as this was reported in our small hometown newspaper.
The gist of it is that:
Curtis Lee Rogers pleaded guilty to 91 counts of trying to sell unauthorized recorded material. He is from Phenix (sic), City Ala but was in my home county selling the bootlegs.
A local county sheriff's deputy "testified Tuesday he met a Motion Picture Association of America investigator on Aug.15, 2008, at a travel center" (IT"S LITERALLY 3 MILES FROM MY STORE!) "The deputy said Rogers had shown up at the site as he was leaving and so the deputy initiated a traffic stop on a white van belonging to Rogers. Inside were 191 discs, including 123 DVDs and 68 CDs.
The MPAA investigator testified that each one of the DVDs was fraudulent." 
"(Rogers was) sentenced to 30 years in prison, to serve 10 of those in confinement and the other 20 on probation. In addition the judge imposed a special condition that Rogers is not to use or permit anyone else to use any recording device that is prohibited by law."

YES!!!!

[mcmarc]

I'm printing this out and making copies to hand out to the jerks at the flea markets.  I bet some might think twice from now on.

[PSV]

I doubt they will care, unless they do a massive crack down with THOUSANDS of people getting nailed for this, won't do a thing to stop it

[moviesgamesetc]

I couldn't find it but I was sent this link so you can read the whole article:

http://www.daily-tribune.com/index.cfm?event=news.view&id=B3A82366-19B9-E2E2-67AAB3801412A692

[supera]

We are located in Ontario and have similar problems.  Thanks for a two tier justice system though here, charges are rarely laid against natives.

Thousands of counterfeit and pirated D-V-D's have been seized by police on the Six Nations Reserve . But Six Nations Chief Glen Lickers says no charges have been laid. Lickers says police seized more than 13-thousand D-V-D's during visits to four smoke shops and variety stores this week. He says warnings were issued so the stores could face criminal charges under the Copyright Act.


13,000 DVDs for 4 shops and that is just the tip of the iceberg, there are literally probably close to 100 such shops on the reserve.