http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/ Engadget Comments for San Francisco man busted for stash of 50,000 pirated DVDs http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/Jan 8th 2008 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/Jan 8th 2008 7:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/
not sure what kind of calculator you were using to come up with the $50 per DVD calculation. i think it just a classic example of thinking you got something, when you dont. ive done it before many times, its ok.]]>Jan 8th 2008 7:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/Jan 8th 2008 7:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/
Cops will usually let you got if you let them take WHATEVER THEY WANT out of the bag.]]>Jan 8th 2008 7:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/
He deserves it.]]>Jan 8th 2008 8:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/Jan 9th 2008 6:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/was it a joke?

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Then again, what do I know?]]>Jan 8th 2008 5:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/Jan 8th 2008 5:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/Jan 8th 2008 6:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/]]>Jan 8th 2008 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/Jan 8th 2008 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/Jan 8th 2008 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/Jan 8th 2008 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/Jan 8th 2008 6:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/Jan 8th 2008 6:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/San Francisco is not in Santa Clara County, aka Silicon Valley. Might was well call everything in California as being in L.A. ?

I get the impression from East Coasters that Cali is shaped like a circle with L.A. in the center cuz everything Cal is in reference to L.A..
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And it's not like us west coast people aren't guilty of it either. Most of the people I meet think anything Chicago and east is the "east coast". And everything else is just a big blur with cows and fields.]]>Jan 8th 2008 6:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/Jan 8th 2008 6:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/
South Bay feels quite different from San Francisco, which feels quite different from Oakland. ]]>Jan 8th 2008 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/Jan 8th 2008 6:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/
As for the question of admissibility in court mentioned above, the police responded to a 911-hag up, which gives them an emergency need to enter the premises. No illegal search & seizure here if the product was out in the open, and how could 50,000 DVDs NOT be out in the open! I don't have that much closet space.]]>Jan 8th 2008 6:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/
I wonder if it really happened, if it can be verified and can such a call be made at another location and made to look like it came from his phone?]]>Jan 8th 2008 6:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/Jan 8th 2008 7:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/Yes, this can be verified. You should see the computer systems at a 911 call center! The couple I've been to, each station had multiple PCs: call tracking; research and mapping; etc. All this is kept synced to a server, which itself has redundant systems. As the calls are recorded (including these hang-ups), the call data is tagged to it, which includes calling number, time, duration, which officer/operator answered and/or handled the call, which officer(s) responded, and any case number that may have been assigned. So, while I have the usual distrust of over-bearing authority, when they claim a 911 hang-up, I suspect it's usually true as it's too easy to verify whether or not it actually happened. Now, if they claim, "Oops, we lost that data," THEN I'd be highly concerned.]]>Jan 8th 2008 11:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/Jan 8th 2008 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/Jan 8th 2008 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/Jan 8th 2008 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/
best comment ive ever seen on engadget]]>Jan 8th 2008 7:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/
BAD ENGADGET!!! BADDDDDD]]>Jan 8th 2008 7:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/Jan 8th 2008 7:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/Jan 8th 2008 7:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/Jan 8th 2008 7:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/Jan 8th 2008 7:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/
P.S. That's nothing. Just north of here, in Milpitas I think, a few months back they busted a ring and found 400,000 pirated DVD's.]]>Jan 9th 2008 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/Jan 9th 2008 4:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/Jan 9th 2008 6:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/Jan 8th 2008 9:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/Jan 8th 2008 10:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/Jan 9th 2008 4:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/08/san-francisco-man-busted-for-stash-of-50-000-pirated-dvds/Shipping must cost a lot. ]]>Jan 11th 2008 6:40AM