Hialeah PD: Analog Division

1986: Hialeah police raid the Hialeah Video Club and arrest one of the club's co-owners for...Porn, right? If it's the Eighties, it must be a porn raid, right?
No it's a raid to seize counterfeit videocassettes, counterfeit VHS cassettes, to be specific, a 1980s crime that you don't often see today. Counterfeiting of easily dubbed VHS tapes was common -- an MGM representative told WTVJ reporter Ed O'Dell off-camera that "The City of Hialeah has the worst problem" -- and cost the film industry millions.
Now that streaming seems to be supplanting physical media in the home entertainment space, one might wonder if counterfeit media is entirely a thing of the past. Something tells us that someone will find a way to make shady money from the movie biz.
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This clip is derived from news video in the WTVJ Collection. Accession number B00158-13; airdate August 1, 1986.

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bunch of cops took home a bunch of movies for their kids at home.

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@@birdorienteering illegal activity is illegal at the end of the day though, but these cheap movies where life back in the day...$2 copy movies all day baby