11.   Video piracy means local governments lose out on sales tax and studios and their employees lose out on revenue from the films they make, he said.

12.   Worse, Shannon said, judges hand out lax penalties, seeing video piracy as a victimless if not a harmless crime.

13.   Police also have linked the group to various criminal rackets, including drug dealing, video piracy and welfare fraud.

14.   Both groups are involved in drug trafficking, cigarette smuggling, video piracy and other criminal rackets.

15.   But video piracy may limit the audience potential, as many Chinese have already watched illegal copies of the film.

16.   China is cracking down on video piracy under pressure from its foreign trading partners to protect patents and copyrights.

17.   In July, Jack Valenti, the head of the Motion Picture Industry of America, won Kremlin promises for an all-out war against video piracy.

18.   Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, brought a detailed plan for combating video piracy to Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin.

19.   Konstantin Zamchenkov, director of the Russian Anti-Piracy Organization, told ORT that the warehouse raided Thursday was part of one of the largest video piracy rings in Russia.

20.   The United States on Wednesday urged Turkey to do more to protect intellectual property rights and prevent video piracy.