After carrying out a successful anti-piracy raid at Awodi-Ora Estate in Ifelodun-Ajeromi Local Government Area of Lagos State which led to the confiscation of thousands of cartons of pirated works worth N600 Million, the Nigerian Copyright Commission has again carried out another successful anti-piracy raid at Tedi Village in Amuwo-Odofin Local Government Areaof Lagos State.

The anti-piracy raid culminated in the seizure of about two thousand cartons of pirated books belonging to various publishers. The Commission also arrested a Chinese nationale in connection with the pirated books. The seized books are worth over N200 Million.

Source: http://www.flexygist.net/2017/06/30/photos-nigerian-copyright-commission-seizes-pirated-books-worth-n800-million/

Piracy is bad. All concerned should speak out to condemn it and appropriate punishment should be meted out to those involved. Denying people of the benefits of their hard work tends to discourage some to strive further to achieve more. By the way Chinko and imitation are like 5 & 6.

Heh hen

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ftc

Good job! Let's get rid of pirated goods.

Let's start with books

Then foods

Then our leaders

Wow

Nice work

This good news.

These look like foreign books

Ok oh

This is good news.

Chinese nationals wrecking havoc in our economy. If it were to be in their country, they would've been facing death penalty. I hope Nigerian authorities treat them accordingly.

Wait for it.

And what are they going to do with it? I wish i can have just 10 of such books, Different authors. That "Creative Capitalism" especially looks interesting. If they are not going to do anything about the books they should bring them to me, I will make good used of them. Although some may be pirated i have still learnt a lot from books. I see very interesting books there.

Abeg they should return it. ..this books has helped me tru my uni days.. ...........

This is a serious moral divide for me. In my opinion, if any piracy be allowed, it should be books. Reading is the gateway to human insight and sustainable development. I COMMEND the pirators, whatever their motives may be. W We are a poor Country, and if you have ever tried to buy an original book, You would know that it is out of reach for the common man.

Wen will NBC seize the noise davido olamide and co always produce

The books should be sold by d government, the pirates arrested to prevent reoccurrance, 40% of sales goes victims of the piracy, 30% to the government and the remain 30% to the copyright board as appreciation for thier good works.

They've inflated the price of the books to make it look like they've done something significant, those books are not worth even one million. If they are serious about combatting piracy, they should go to alaba market

Intelectual property theft, discouraging Nigerians from being creative since it started.

Sabergol99:
This is a serious moral divide for me. In my opinion, if any piracy be allowed, it should be books. Reading is the gateway to human insight and sustainable development. I COMMEND the pirators, whatever their motives may be. W We are a poor Country, and if you have ever tried to buy an original book, You would know that it is out of reach for the common man.

Are u out of ur mind? Do u know what you are saying at all? These are people sweat being milked wrongly. These are crimes

This clearly shows we still read in this part of the world..

Now, government should try and subsidise the original versions of these books, to keep the reading trend growing

Will they listen to my advice, I don't think so

Sabergol99:
This is a serious moral divide for me. In my opinion, if any piracy be allowed, it should be books. Reading is the gateway to human insight and sustainable development. I COMMEND the pirators, whatever their motives may be. W We are a poor Country, and if you have ever tried to buy an original book, You would know that it is out of reach for the common man.

So the writers should go hungry. Abi you no know say na brain and money them use write the book? Do you know how much they spend on typing and quality printing?

Sabergol99:
This is a serious moral divide for me. In my opinion, if any piracy be allowed, it should be books. Reading is the gateway to human insight and sustainable development. I COMMEND the pirators, whatever their motives may be. W We are a poor Country, and if you have ever tried to buy an original book, You would know that it is out of reach for the common man.

probably if u have ever worked in a publishing company before u will not sound the way you are sounding right now

Those books will return to the market in no time

Please don't burn it.
They should just brand it not for sale and distribute to public schools.

Sabergol99:
This is a serious moral divide for me. In my opinion, if any piracy be allowed, it should be books. Reading is the gateway to human insight and sustainable development. I COMMEND the pirators, whatever their motives may be. W We are a poor Country, and if you have ever tried to buy an original book, You would know that it is out of reach for the common man.

I used to think like you

Until I started writing my own stuff

And then pirates showed me red pepper

I hope you will not experience such

These pictures are really clean and nice , LRU has got competition now

Aje ooo!!!!!!!!! but Wetin concern me??