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UK’s biggest vinyl piracy factory busted?

By | Published on Thursday 24 June 2010

According to reports, police and anti-piracy officers from the UK record industry recently raided a property west of London where illegal vinyl records were being manufactured.

According to the Music Industry News Network, 200 ‘stampers’, used to press vinyl records, were seized during the raid, including some used to press copies of rare Rolling Stones bootleg recordings. Two German men were apparently at the property when police entered, both of whom were charged with copyright offences. It’s been suggested that the plant might have been responsible for producing the majority of illegal vinyl releases in the UK.

It seems that this raid was linked to another that recently took place at Scenario Records in the Ladbroke Grove area of West London, though the exact link isn’t clear.



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