When hundreds of Mexican police crashed through the doors into a warren of mysterious warehouses and humming laboratories, they uncovered one of the largest illegal manufacturing centers of pirated movies and music ever found in Latin America.
Local police last week uncovered suspected unlicensed software worth S$1.4 million (US$1.14 million) from a manufacturing company, according to a software industry lobbying group.
Customs officials at the Port of Long Beach intercepted a shipment of almost $1 million worth of counterfeit memory chips stashed inside nearly 2,000 karaoke machines, officials said.