"'The markup for a kilo of heroin is 200 percent,' Hoffman says. 'The markup for pirated CDs and DVDs is 800 percent.'"
Once I heard that the mob was into air conditioner coolant smuggling because of a similar markup, but I doubt it's as serious here as the RIAA would have you believe. Most people can just get the stuff online themselves or from a friend.
"'A few gang members get arrested and all of the sudden there are reports that gangs are pigeonholed as being big into piracy,' says Alejandro Alfonso, who routinely testifies as an expert witness on Los Angeles gangs. 'But if anything, it's small-scale stuff.... Gangs might be involved on the fringes.'"
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