Where do the pirate DVDs come from?
Historically the majority of films were illegally recorded in the United States, Canada and the UK and duplicated on to millions of DVDs in South East Asia (mainly Malaysia, Pakistan and China) and imported in to the UK and distributed through criminal networks. Recently there has been a shift towards ‘homegrown’ pirate copies, ie copies created in the UK using DVD burners and/or PCs. Most of the pirate DVDs seized in the UK have now been produced in this way.
