A father and two sons who used dozens of Chinese "slaves" to pull off Britain's biggest DVD piracy scam have been jailed.
The "sophisticated" operation, which made up to £7m, hid behind a "veneer of respectability" as it imported cutting edge equipment from the Far East.
The group provided a "one-stop-shop" service for major blockbuster movies and unregulated pornographic films.
When police raided a number of locations in East London in 2006, they found thousands of pirate DVDs of the latest movie releases - including Ice Age 2, The Da Vinci Code and Iron Man - and the equipment to make them.
It was the first time such an operation had been identified in Western Europe. More...
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