21.   The syndicate cashed in on the huge demand for pirated discs locally.

22.   U.S. officials say the territory has become a production and distribution center for pirated discs since mainland China began cracking down on copyright piracy.

23.   U.S. officials say Hong Kong has become a production and distribution center for pirated discs since officials in mainland China began cracking down.

24.   But they added that pirated CD music discs were apparently no longer available from street hawkers in numbers anywhere as large as had been seen last winter.

25.   Chinese officials have closed a Hong Kong-owned factory producing pirated VCD laser discs in southern China, a report said Monday.

26.   The domestic market only consumes five million of the pirated discs, and the rest are exported to as far away as Canada.

27.   The girl allegedly accepted orders via the Internet for pirated discs from teenagers from Singapore, Australia, Malaysia, the United States and Hong Kong.