Meanwhile, Bloomberg have reported that Harry video CDs are being flogged in Beijing and Kuala Lumpur, only days after the film's release.
The wire service quoted Sam Ho, assistant director at the Hong Kong office of the MPAA, as saying, "This is a nightmare. Within a week, all of Asia will be flooded with illegal copies of Harry Potter."
The common piracy practice is to record the movie when released on a mini video camera before uploading it onto the Internet. Copies are then printed onto any of a number of formats, which then hit the streets for hawkers co-ordinated by a ringleader.
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