The following letter is being sent around the adult industry from Costas Dimopoulos who identifies himself as a journalist: Dear Sirs,
I represent a team of journalists from one of the biggest Greek newspaper and that has made big disclosures over the past years.
We have been researching about piracy in Greece and we traced one of bootleg DVDs distributors that is supposed to be the official distributor for the company from EU Forum Entertainment that carry 1st Strike, Anarchy Films, Nectar Entertainment, Gwen Media.
Moreover, he is the official distributor for DVDs for 24self video Greece (official distributor of HEN Vending machines Italy).
As you can see at the web page we are sending there are many films from DVSX, Elegant Angel, Red Light District, Venom and Devil’s Films.
In the past they have been distributing also Platinum X, Evil Angel and many others.
We are not sure if they have paid any licenses or they have the license by your companies.
http://www.dc24.gr/eCommerce/showComXDEFAULT.php?cat_id=15
After our thorough research we have discovered:
1) The brand name that is shown on the covers is called TABOO or TEENY and is the company that produces all DVDs.
The name of the company is Antoniou Kalamakis & Sia OE – Petrou Ralli 384, Nikaia Athens, Tel 210 4919816, 210 491 9821
2) There is another company Stefanos Dellidis Ltd in Thessaloniki Greece that carries all these bootleg DVDs and sells them also.
3) In this DVD piracy scandal, DC24 company that is actually a guy named S.Spyropoulos is also involved.
As you may see, all representatives from US major movie studios, as Prooptiki and Videosonic (also Audiovisual and Odeon in other site that seems not to carry bootleg DVDs http://www.spcinema.gr/deigmatismos_xxx.php?company=8&ac=1) are sold with all these pirate DVDs.
How they use the logos of the major studios? Are they allowed? We will make this research with US major studios also.
In order for you to help us on our research, since this great scandal in Greece will be presented in one of our future headline articles, please let us know if we are at the right track, and you have not given the permission for replication and distribution of these DVDs.
We have copied all the above links, and downloaded at our hard drives, so even if they shut their servers off, we can still have copies of their web sites as shown today.
Finally, piracy in Greece according to up to today research is hurting not only Greece, but the whole of EU (since they are no borders for imports/exports), so there is a big issue behind all of the above.
Thank you in advance, Costas Dimopoulos, Journalist for one of Greece’s Major NewsPapers (not revealed at the moment due to safety reasons)