A prolific seller of pirate DVDs on eBay has been ordered to pay a record £55,000 ($109,000) under Proceeds of Crime legislation following a judgment at Bradford Crown Court in the U.K.
Peter Spencer, who has already served a jail sentence for his piracy activities, had been the subject of an investigation by the Assets Recovery Agency. The $109,000 was adjudged to be the criminal profit made by Spencer from his pirate DVD sales and is the highest asset seizure to date for a film piracy case brought by industry org Federation Against Copyright Theft.
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