MCPS's Anti-Piracy Unit were last week involved in a raid and search on a house in West Lothian where residents are suspected of illegally trading bootleg CDs via eBay. It is suspected that the people who live at the address have multiple eBay identities, allowing them to sell bootleg CDs via the auction service without initially arising suspicion (ie, as to why one person has so many copies of any one CD to sell). During the raid by West Lothian Trading Standards and Lothian And Borders Police a computer and duplicating tower was taken, as was a large quantity of blank CDs, masters and some finished products.
Confirming their involvement in the raid, a spokesman for MCPS's Anti-Piracy Unit told CMU: "The alleged illegal seller was using multiple IDs on eBay which were repeatedly suspended by others whose rights were infringed but this failed to stop illegal activity. Our APU investigation acted firmly and decisively to close this operation down."