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May 29, 2008
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HK Customs cracks down on sale of modified game consoles

HONG KONG, May 29 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong Customs officers said here Thursday that games consoles with circumvention devices worth a total of 110,000 HK dollars (14,103 about US dollars) were seized at an operation on May 28.

The Customs conducted the territory-wide operation code-named " Intruder" to crack down on retail activities involving the modification of game consoles to enable customers to play pirated games on the hardware.

In raids against seven shops in Wan Chai, Sham Shui Po, Fanling and Tuen Mun, officers of the Intellectual Property Investigation Bureau of Hong Kong seized 29 sets of game consoles with circumvention ...

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