PIRATE FILMS
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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 12
At least 15 laboratories in | Los Angeles are making I illegal copies of films, and !are estimated to be cheating the film industry out of SNZ7SO million a year, reports the "Los Angeles iTimes.”
i Thousands of films, from I “The Sting” and “The GodI father” to old classics and ■television shows, had been 'counterfeited and distributed I throughout the world the 'newspapers said. Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation seized films in Los Angeles land Indianapolis last week
I Private collectors and Ismail exhibitors paid from SNZ2S to $360 for the films, but the lucrative business was an illegal distribution to foreign countries, said the I n e wspaper.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33740, 13 January 1975, Page 13
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120PIRATE FILMS Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33740, 13 January 1975, Page 13
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