Malaysian police bust video piracy ring

Malaysian police bust video piracy ring Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian police busted distributors of pirated and pornographic VCDs and DVDs, seizing more than 350,000 discs and arresting six men, an official news report said Thursday.

Officers from the main Bukit Aman police station in the capital Kuala Lumpur conducted a raid at a factory used to store pirated discs for sale throughout Malaysia, the Bernama news agency reported.

Police seized the VCDs and DVDs, worth some 1 million ringgit (270,000 dollars), and detained the six suspects aged in their 20s and 30s.

"The factory has been in operation for the past four months, and is the site for packaging and labelling the goods before being sold," the agency quoted a police source as saying.

He said 10,000 videos were believed to have been copied daily. (dpa)