Huge fake CD haul in Ho Chi Minh City
Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City seized Wednesday hundreds of thousands of pirated records, including music discs featuring famous Vietnamese and expatriate singers, meant for sale.
Local police and inspection officials raided a coffee-billiards parlor in district 5 at 8.30am and found the CD’s in large cartons or scattered everywhere on the ground floor of the two-story building.
Four large wooden trunks holding music and film records were lying on the first floor. In a 50 sq.m room, also on the first floor, they found dozens of unsent cartons with discs destined for neighboring areas and even as far away as Hue in central Vietnam.
Thousands of the fake records contained music relating to lunar New Year, or Tet, which falls later this month.
An equal number of new labels for affixing on the disks were also seized.
However, the authorities did not find any printing or recording facility.
According to initial information, the owner whose first name is Tri had gone away to the countryside and was not available for interrogation.
Luu Van Quang, a local police official, told Thanh Nien that the coffee-house had been blacklisted a dozen times, mostly for playing fake CD’s.
Ten days ago, the police had confiscated 10 bags of pirated discs from the place, he added.
The remaining discs are being checked for their content.
Distribution and sale of pirated records is rampant in Vietnam which is, however, a member of the Geneva Convention protecting producers of phonograms against unauthorized duplication.
Source: Thanh Nien Daily
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