Uk's largest DVD piracy operation discovered in Leyton

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Link.

The premises contained over 500 individual DVD burners capable of producing over 60,000 pirate DVDs per day, with an estimated daily street value in excess of £250,000 (c. £1.7m per week).

During the raid, all seized copies of Ice Age 2 had disappeared. Children of the police officers involved were very happy that evening!

 

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So I'm sort of wondering how they physically did it. I suppose the drives are all ATA. That would mean that those towers must be bristling with PCI ATA controllers. Then they'd have to manually swap out discs at the beginnning and end ov every burn. This means that each machine probably burned a disc in all of its burners at once, making it easier and quicker for the operator to switch the discs out. The computers running the operation must be serious pieces of kit to handle all that activity.

SCSI card, SCSI writer - don't think you'd need many horses to burn DVDs. Just bandwidth.

 

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or external duplicator units, you can get the tower with controller/psu for about £200 that then lets you populate it with drives of your choice, all you have to do is load it up with a "master" and however many blanks (1-7 on the cheap ones), and press a button and it's away.

No need for expensive SCSI drives, or full systems and pretty much foolproof to use.

I suppose they are doing it to make profit.

So assuming 4 drives per IDE card, all you'd need is two controllers (8 drives, total).

Anyway, Werewolf - you sound like you know a little more than you're letting on. What did you say your address was again?