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Info: a Big bust at the Motor City Comic Con - bootleg sellers — Page 2

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Smart or not, it's been going on for years. I bought bootlegs of the OT (that really awful LOOK set) for $90(!) back in 2001, and there have been sellers hawking bootlegs at cons for as long as cons have existed.

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http://www.newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?t=71429

As a result, more than 30,000 suspected fraudulent items were obtained and 14 dealers were taken to the police station -- some in handcuffs -- for police reports to be filed. The dealers were not arrested, but the state police are seeking warrants for their arrest from prosecutors, White said. Pending that decision, the dealers were released and given the opportunity to return to open their locations at the con again. However, vendors indicated they had noticed RIAA and MPAA detectives on the premises again on Saturday.
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One part of the story states that a number of dealers had bootleg DVD copies of the DaVinci Code at their tables. That is a lie. I was there from the beginning and I never saw any new releases at any tables.
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Why are they expecting the DeVinci code to be so pirated? Because it is a crappy movie no one will pay to see? That is lame they are using it as an excuse. I guess you said only one article stated that thought. Well, you know how journalists can be.

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