Re: DVD Pirating Ring Busted in Hong Kong

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 18:10:55 -0700, yellowcake <yellowcake@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

>> Well obviously they would replace them...which would cost them
>> money...which would throw off all the magic figures proposed in that
>> article. Unless they HAD the burners already that 11.5 million number
>> would be full of ***, in which case the "potential revenue loss"
>> would also have been full of ***, in which case the entire article is
>> full of ***... o_O

>And how much do you think they pay (pay? we no pay!) for burners in
>*Hong Kong*?

....as much as everyone else does? How the *** would I know, I'm not
Miss Cleo, are you? Or are you pulling "facts" out of your ass now?

>And blank DVD/CDRs, boy, there's a real overhead burner!

On average 24 cents per disc...let's see, at 11.5 million copies
that'd work out to 2.76 million dollars!

>And criminal labor, that's expensive, too!

....well yeah, of course it is. I mean it's not like you can just put
an ad in the paper or something. And then ya gotta pay em enough not
to go blathering about it to people. And then there's shipping (all
over the world), after everything involved I doubt they're pulling in
that much profit overall...especially not when most of their profit
probably comes from sidelining from their retail operation, selling
copies of stuff at like $4 a DVD on fuckin eBay.

>I think the $8.7 million quoted in the article, if halved, would more then cover the costs.

Boy that 8.7 figure, that certainly brings up another issue. Let's
see...11.5 million copies...8.7 million in lost revenue...so does that
mean that they were only pulling in less than a dollar profit per
disk?

Oh wait, this gets better:
"The syndicate was selling the discs from three retail outlets".

Okay, okay, in Hong Kong, where these retail outlets supposedly
are...there are ONLY around 6 million people living there...

o_O

So um...11.5 million copies...either they're implying that every
person in Hong Kong bought at least two pirated disks or that lil bit
about how they 'believe they were in use 24/7' was just a blatant lie.

Now, I might be able to understand if they were distributing them via
some other means, like selling bulk quantities to 3rd party
dealers...but then why the *** would they have the retail stores?

>It's not like they're leasing high end commercial space for their criminal
>activities, do ya think?

Well they musta been leasing something, Sunshine, they said THREE
RETAIL LOCATIONS.

Yeesh, did you even READ the article?

>These are industrious asian criminals, not
>american capital venture IPOs coming to market with nothing more then an
>idea. They're *criminals* and if they lose money, they probably kill
>someone.

Because as well all know, ALL criminals kill people...at least in the
land of FUCKING STUPID where pisscake lives.

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