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DS Piracy Raid Saves Industry Billions of Dollars!

April 10, 2008 in News comments 5

Yet another piracy raid has occurred, this one being probably one of the most massive of all as far as DS piracy raids are concerned in the approximate amount of money that was seized. Around 85,000 discs valued at about £6000 each (approximately 12,000 USD) were seized... That's equivalent to £510,000,000 ($1,020,000,000 US)!

Mama mia, that's a lot of Mario!

Tut, tut. Walton Street market in Hull is the location of the latest raid by Trading Standards to show up a huge quantity of pirated DS games destined for sale to the public.

The haul was massive, turning up discs ELSPA forensic experts have apparently never seen before in the UK. Some 85,000 discs, marked 'Volume 9 DS Games', were seized in total and, it transpired, each held 200 current DS games.

That's about £6,000's worth of games on one disc.
Chais via pocketgamer.co.uk »
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  • 1
    Tank Apr 10, 08
    Kind of like when you see people selling bootleg DVD's and other copied games at a car boot sale. It's so blatant you wonder how they get away with it most of the time.
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    Smoke Apr 10, 08
    People making these reports many times fail to see that if the person had not downloaded, more times than not they would have not purchased it anyway. So saying it's costing billions upon billions is an overstatement, I'm sure playing Super Princess Peach never would have even crossed my brothers mind beforehand.
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    Chad and Protoman Apr 11, 08
    OMG! nintendo just went from trillionairs to zillionares with this bust!. Truth is you will never stop it. I remember when the last starwars movie came out Good morning america. (a national news thing) went to the streets of New York and found a bootleged copy of the movie 5 days before the release.
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    Divinorse Apr 12, 08
    Wow this is ridiculous. I never knew there were piracy on the Nintendo DS but I guess people have branched out from Movies/DVDs to such other things, how pathetic.
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    FFXFREAK Apr 12, 08
    Holy crap? That's flipping crazy. I can't believe people were hoarding such expensive disks in such a huge amount =|. I didn't know there was this much piracy going on with the DS .

    ~FFXFREAK

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