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Koreans step up piracy crackdown


June 04, 2008 Midway through a 100-day anti-piracy campaign South Korean police have arrested 238 people and already seized 38% more pirated CDs and DVDs than they did in all of 2007, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said Wednesday. The campaign was launched by the Ministry together with the Copyright Protection Center, the Seoul Prosecutors Office and the police. South Korea has long had major online and offline piracy problems for all media -- not just music and movies, but also computer games, books and more.

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