Mexico and U.S. Conduct Joint Raid on Pirated Music Recordings

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Wednesday, September 1, 1993
Author: 
Volume: 
9
Issue: 
9
370
Abstract: 
On August 6, 1993, in an example of new cooperative bilateral intellectual property enforcement cooperation, U.S and Mexican law enforcement authorities conducted the first simultaneous raids on suspected pirate operations along the U.S.-Mexican border in Juarez-El Paso. During the raid Mexican agents confiscated about 100,000 cassettes from vendors at a Juarez market while the FBI raided a facility in an El Paso residence that reportedly contained materials and equipment capable of producing 1.7 million cassettes a year, or illegal sales of $17.5 million….[more]