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Sony Helps Bust Singaporean Pirates

Representatives from Sony Computer Entertainment have co-operated with the Intellectual Property Rights Branch (IPRB) and the Singapore police to conduct a series of rai...

David Jenkins, Blogger

June 22, 2004

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Representatives from Sony Computer Entertainment have co-operated with the Intellectual Property Rights Branch (IPRB) and the Singapore police to conduct a series of raids on retailers selling pirated PlayStation software and hardware. The two day series of raids resulted in several arrests and the seizure of more than 14,000 games, controllers and memory cards. Pirates in Singapore now face a minimum of $100,000 in fines and up to five years in prison. Source: Polygon

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David Jenkins ([email protected]) is a freelance writer and journalist working in the UK. As well as being a regular news contributor to Gamasutra.com, he also writes for newsstand magazines Cube, Games TM and Edge, in addition to working for companies including BBC Worldwide, Disney, Amazon and Telewest.

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