look at how Edu Manzano used this AIFV!


http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?in...&story_id=65741





RP exec wages war vs digital piracy from armored vehicle
First posted 06:59pm (Mla time) Feb 10, 2006
By Joel Francis Guinto
INQ7.net


ABOARD an armored personnel carrier, Optical Media Board (OMB) chairman Edu Manzano watched as an estimated 100 million pesos worth of illegally copied discs was crushed at the military general headquarters.

The vehicle rolled over a bed of seized audio and video discs inside Camp Aguinaldo on Friday. Another batch of pirated discs was loaded onto two industrial shredders.

"This is a war,” Manzano, a screen actor, said. “Pirates are destroying legitimate industries, undermining the economy, and stifling Filipino creativity.”

“They deprive the people of legitimate jobs and adequate benefits," he said.

"The destruction of pirated DVDs and CDs today sends a message to the public that the government is really serious in clamping down on piracy in the country," said Intellectual Property Office (IPO) Director General Adrian Cristobal Jr.

The 1,276,625 DVDs and CDs were seized in OMB raids from December 15 last year to January 30, the OMB said in a statement.

Of these, 900,000 were confiscated during a December 20 raid in Manila's Quiapo district, a hotbed for audio, video, and software pirates.

The raids, coordinated by the Motion Picture Association (MPA), coincided with the important Christmas and New Year holidays. Law-enforcement officials in 12 countries seized nearly six million pirated discs while 807 motion-picture pirates were arrested.

"The main targets of Operation Big Broom were piracy hot spots that had caused significant problems in the past and resisted previous enforcement efforts," the MPA said in a statement.

Officials seized 1,014,478 illegal discs in 167 raids in China. In Indonesia, about 2,362,000 pirated discs were seized in seven raids.

The crackdown focused on locations notorious for piracy in major cities in Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand.

some more pics from Yahoo! News:



-- Philippine soldiers use an armoured vehicle to destroy more than 100 million pesos' ($1.9 million) worth of pirated optical discs, CDs, VCDs, and DVDs at the military headquarters in Manila February 10, 2006. Philippine Optical Media Board (OMB) chairman Edu Manzano said on Friday that the destruction of the pirated discs sends the message to the public that the government is serious in clamping down on piracy in the country. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco


-- Philippine Optical Media Board (OMB) Chairman Edu Manzano (R, in blue) and army soldiers use an armoured vehicle to destroy more than 100 million pesos' (US$1.9 million) worth of pirated optical discs, CDs, VCDs, and DVDs at the military headquarters in Manila February 10, 2006. Manzano said on Friday that the destruction of the pirated discs sends the message to the public that the government is serious in clamping down on piracy in the country. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco


-- Philippine Optical Media Board (OMB) Chairman Edu Manzano (R, inside vehicle) and army soldiers use an armoured vehicle to destroy more than 100 million pesos' (US$1.9 million) worth of pirated optical discs, CDs, VCDs, and DVDs at the military headquarters in Manila February 10, 2006. Manzano said on Friday that the destruction of the pirated discs sends the message to the public that the government is serious in clamping down on piracy in the country. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco

Masyado naman overkill ang propaganda nila! Why not use a bulldozer? mas marami pang madudurog na DVD in one sweep keysa sa AIFV! the most important thing is that AIFV can have a much better use fighting the neps or terr sa south. :headbang:

mabuti pa tinira na lang ng 25 mm cannon ng AIFV yung mga cd/dvd para mas exciting :drunk:

:headbang: this propaganda is crap! most of us pinoys will still prefer buying cheap dvd/vcd/cd's than the orig one's thats the awfull truth... :armysad: if the peso dollar rate continues to improve for the php side then there might be a possibilty the prices for those cd's might go down :dunno:
and the use of the AIFV pisses me off! gemini1 is correct the AIFV should be deployed on the front instead of using it for destroying pirated cd's...

I think the CD/DVD manufacturers can bring down actually the prices to 100 or less. How can they afford to bring down that CD/DVD's in times of sale from 250 to 150 and from 150 to 100? I think it really lies with in the competition of the market and promotional aspect. The chain of supply in the distribution of the products has something to do with the prices in the market. Lets hope that CD/DVD prices would really down and have a stable prices that is worth buying for.

another pointless ill-conceived photo op :armyroleyes:



so our AIFVs have names now, looks well-maintained too, newly-overhauled and repainted?

Palabas lang iyan, di naman lahat sinisira ng Pulis, may mga DVD at firecracker ako ngayon na bigay ng cousin kong pulis, na confiscate nila sa mga raid.

Di ba minsan pati seized drugs ibinebenta din ng police?

Punta sila ng QUIAPO, REcto at Green Hills kung gusto nila maka-huli ng maraming fake DVD, CD and VCD.

Kung talagang seryoso sila SA ANTI PIRACY CAMPAIGN NA YAN ay bantayan nila yung BACK DOOR ng bansa natin na siyang dinada-anan ng mga fake DVD. VCD at CD from Malaysia at China.

Ang galing talaga magkunwari ni EDU, este Umarte pala.. :fire:
Peace to all.

Where are this AIFV? in pictures and videos of the Peninsula hotel standoff only APCs are there, no AIFV.

would have been nice if some neps were under the cds n dvds...

Crushing confiscated DVDs and CDs is useless. The pirates will just churn out more copies the next day.

What should be crushed are the replicating machines and if possible, the owners of those machines. :headbang:

By the way, I am yet to see a photo/TV op showing the destruction of repicating machines.

Edu, are you just too busy hosting those stupid game shows or the syndicates are sharing with you some of their loot?

It doesn't Pass the Smell Test.... I saw first hand the operations in baclaran last week. The Muslims surely run that place and learn how to cope in a Christian society. At approximately 1800 hours I saw several vendors bring their fake handbags and literally dump them on plastic sheets right on the roadway and begin selling them in front of the church. The pimps operate in taxi and street children learn how to beg freely, the trisikad drivers all seem to be the eyes and ears for the peddlers and pornography dvd are openly displayed there in front of those MMDA guys in Green shirts. Most of All the security guards that work there guarding the banks and establishments are the same ones when i was last there in December and they know who is who and who is operating in that area. I was inquiring the price of a handbag and chatting with a female vendor and the female told me they were supporters of Abu Sayaf at which time i dropped the bag and left. The prices there are incredibly cheap and just hard for the average person to just pass up. They know how to make things appealing and affordable to the average hardworking person. Maybe one could learn a few lessons here.
Maybe Edu is trying to launch himself for political aspirations and going after the small frys and not the ones that probably line his pockets in the future.

Two years after this photo-op and pirated DVDs are still proliferating all over the country. The illegal DVDs might even outlast the AIFV.

And Edu is still hosting that stupid noon-time quiz show.

:banana:

:specool:

Sir Frenzy;

I happen to see that noon time show today. I got a kick out of what you said...

That's why Edu couldnt care less about the failure of the OMB to curb piracy, he's too preoccupied with his TV hosting jobs.

A few raids on retailers here and there just to show that he's doing something, but as sewer said previously, there are no raids on replicators which churn out DVDs by the thousands per day.

Why is that so?

For me its because Money makes Money, the more money they make the more they can bribe. Its just like in the province. The illegal numbers guys pay someone to get caught and go to jail just so the police can get credit for busts so that they have a good record on their name and town