Uk's largest DVD piracy operation discovered in Leyton
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Better get buyingSherberT* said:
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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 of 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.
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Ah yes, good call. I forgot that SCSI burners even existed.basmic said:
That would mean that the interface to the board is probably PCI-X. Following that, the mobos are probably workstation/server pieces. Dual Xeons anybody?
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.
No need for expensive SCSI drives, or full systems and pretty much foolproof to use.
lumocolor said:No doubt they will probably get banged up for some serious time whilst many Rapists and thugs that go out and physically assault people for a laugh get away with community service!! What a lovely world we live in!!
Show me a rapist that been convicted and given community service...
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Piracy is a crime, it should be punished.
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I suppose they are doing it to make profit.Werewolf said:
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?
Since they're not a danger to society by any stretch of the imagination, prison would just be silly. Confiscate all their ill-gotten gains, confiscate the equipment they used and slap a hefty fine on them. Sorted. If they do it again, more fool them, they get punished again 
robmiller said:Since they're not a danger to society by any stretch of the imagination, prison would just be silly. Confiscate all their ill-gotten gains, confiscate the equipment they used and slap a hefty fine on them. Sorted. If they do it again, more fool them, they get punished again
Considering they made £1.7m a month what sort of fine would stop them from doing it again?
neoboy said:
Well surely your involvement in an operation of this nature would warrant future monitoring of your bank accounts and whatnot; if you notice suspicious activity in their account (ie them doing it again), investigate, seize the money and punish them again. Repeat ad nauseum.
robmiller said:Since they're not a danger to society by any stretch of the imagination, prison would just be silly. Confiscate all their ill-gotten gains, confiscate the equipment they used and slap a hefty fine on them. Sorted. If they do it again, more fool them, they get punished again
They broke the law they need to be punished send them to prision, I thought one of the biggest worry about breaking the law is prison, a place that takes your freedom and life.
Think of the money they stole from the people who worked on the film.
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£1,700,000 a week, if they sold each disc for a £20 each that'd be a lot of sales 