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December

17/12/2007 PRE-CHRISTMAS PIRATE MOVIE BUST SEES POLICE TOP RECENT RECORD RAID
08/12/2007 POLICE BUST CABRAMATTA PIRATE MOVIE BURNER LAB - Operation had capability of producing over 370,000 DVDs per year

November

21/11/2007 POLICE BUST LARGEST EVER BURNER LAB IN AUSTRALIA: Two homes raided in Melbourne suburbs - 88 burners and over 200,000 pirated DVDs seized
16/11/2007 POLICE RAID SHUTS DOWN PIRATE DVD STORE: 8-burner "pirate lab" was capable of producing over 200,000 DVDs a year
13/11/2007 FIRST AUSTRALIAN CONVICTION FOR CAMCORDING IN A CINEMA: 21-year-old used mobile phone to steal "The Simpson's Movie"
09/11/2007 OVER-THE-COUNTER MOVIE PIRATES FINED $16,000

October

25/10/2007 SUPERMARKET MOVIE PIRATE CHECKS OUT WITH $9,100 FINE: Magistrate stresses piracy not a victimless crime
24/10/2007 AUSTRALIANS ASKED TO CONSIDER "WHAT ARE YOU REALLY BURNING?": Film and television industry launches appeal in new national campaign
19/10/2007 BIGGEST PIRATED DVD SEIZURE THIS YEAR: Burning operation generated a potential street value of over A$4.5million
11/10/2007 MARKET SELLER OF PIRATED DVDS COPS $5,000 IN FINES Magistrate says "…it is not a victimless crime."

September

12/09/2007 TWICE CONVICTED PIRATE GOES TO JAIL Man found guilty of selling fake goods and pirate films from car boot

August

30/08/2007 New South Wales Police Uncover Pirate Burner Lab in Western Sydney Raid
16/08/2007 World's First Pirated Copy of the Simpsons Movie Traced to Sydney
14/08/2007 Makers of Kenny and Happy Feet Unite to Fight Piracy

July

12/07/2007 Police Net Massive Haul of over 19,000 Pirated DVDs Across Two States
06/07/2007 Alert Cinema Staff Prevent Illegal Recording of Transformers
02/07/2007 Pirate Website Originating From Perth Subject to US Lawsuit

June

20/06/2007 Courts Get Tough on DVD Criminals
19/06/2007 Police Action Across Two States Foils Movie Pirates
01/06/2007 Only Threat of Jail Will Make Him Stop

May

23/05/2007 Kenny DVD Movie Pirates Not So Flush
09/05/2007 AFACT Welcomes Federal Budget Announcement - More Money for Australian Law Enforcement to Fight Piracy.

April

27/04/2007 Man Pulled Over For Speeding Gets 12 month Suspended Sentence for Movie Piracy
16/04/2007 Waterfront mansion home to DVD lab
12/04/2007 DVD Pair Fined $20,000

March

03/03/2007 Tip-Off Closes Down Pirate Website in Coastal Town
03/03/2007 Police Raid Stops Pirated 'Happy Feet' Walking Out The Door

January

19/01/2007 Illegal DVD Burning Operation in Video Store Shut Down

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