10,300 counterfeit DVDs of Nigerian movies were seized by investigators under District Attorney Charles Hynes in Brooklyn, after complaints by the African country’s “Nollywood” film industry about rampant piracy the AFP reports.
They also found high-volume disc copying machines, hundreds of blank DVDs, and pre-printed labels for movies in the nine stores targeted.
Known as “Nollywood,” the Nigerian movie industry has in recent years galloped ahead of Hollywood to rank second to India’s Bollywood.
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