Hi all, My colleague purchased a TV series for his library which turned out to be an illegal copy shipped from China and marked with handmade labels. It sounds like he used http://www.classicdvdworld.com/. See their FAQs: http://www.classicdvdworld.com/FAQ_ep_42.html
The seller is offering a full refund minus postage if the discs are returned, but the librarian is thinking about how to report this to authorities. Do you think he should? If so, how should he proceed? The National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center has a page at http://www.iprcenter.gov/referral which says, "The IPR Center encourages members of the general public, industry, trade associations, law enforcement and government agencies to report violations of intellectual property rights through this website." Would that be a good place to start? Otherwise, the FBI has a tips page at https://tips.fbi.gov/. Or maybe it would be better to contact a local/regional FBI office directly? Thanks. Mike Michael May Carnegie-Stout Public Library, Dubuque This message has been scanned for malware by Websense. www.websense.com
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