On 30 April, at Burwood Local Court in Sydney, Mr Qing Wang, 45, was sentenced to an immediate custodial sentence of nine months after he pleaded guilty to 25 copyright crimes. The sentence took into account that Wang had just finished a community service order for similar copyright offences and Magistrate Pierce ordered that Wang was not to be released before 29th January 2010.
The case against Wang arose from raids by New South Wales Police on weekend markets in South West Sydney where movie pirates were suspected of possessing and selling pirated movie DVDs. On 18 May 2008, Maroubra Police, assisted by investigators from the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT), raided the weekend market at Kingsford, seizing over 300 pirated movie DVDs from a stall operated by Wang. At the time of the raid, Wang was serving a community service order following a previous conviction for copyright crimes for selling pirated movies at Darling Markets in February 2007.
