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Operation find your way as five people suspected to be MP3 musical down-loader were arrested as official of Nigerian Copyright Commission stormed the popular Emeka Offor Plaza, known for GSM in Onitsha Main Market.
The NCC officials whom were believe to have gotten information, arrived the plaza unexpected and cough the suspects believed to be the master mind behind mp3 and mp4 pirate in the plaza.
The leader in the operation include NCC's Director of Enforcement, Augustine Akewu Amodu, Onitsha zonal director , Emeka Ogbonna and other security agents
However, efforts by NCC officials to arrest more people proved abortive as they quickly jumped into waiting vehicles and returned to their office as soon as they discovered that some of the traders had already started mobilising against them.
Parading the suspects at NCC zonal office in Onitsha, shortly on arrival, Amodu, who identified MP3 player, as a copyright infringement, lamented that the Nigerian music industry had already gone into abyss since the advent of MP3.
Amodu noted that the Director-General of NCC, Mr Afam Ezekude, had already given a directive that all the pirates who downloaded peoples’ musical and film works into MP3, audio and video plates and sell to customers should be arrested and prosecuted.
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