Jornal da Globo - 26/07/2011

The police of São Paulo closed this Tuesday (26) a distributor with about two million CDs, DVDs and pirated games.

Check out the video of the report here

The business card of one of the counterfeiters said MP3. The four-story building draws a lot of attention from those who pass through downtown São Paulo, but only those who knew about the scheme could enter.

“The person knocked on the door, and the person in charge of the whole building answered it, allowed entry and controlled the entry of people and material,” says the military police officer, Lieutenant Elder Bezerra.

When the police arrived at the pirate distributor, both buyers and sellers went up the stairs, broke into an iron gate and jumped over the wall. When they fell, they broke the neighbor's roof and ran away. The building owner was arrested.

On each floor, the police found several boxes of different counterfeiters. All with a wide variety of CDs, DVDs and electronic games. Among them films that have not even premiered in Brazilian cinemas.

The police were surprised by the creativity of those who work there. In a box, for example, a delivery system worked, that is, the person called, ordered the pirated CD, the goods were placed in a suitcase and delivery was made by couriers. City officials used a truck to take the piracy away.