Quote Originally Posted by number001 View Post
Let's revive this thread....

Just curious, why is Edu Manzano so motivated in catching all these pirated wares from everyone? I mean the persistency, consistency, vigilence, etc of their raids from day to day, firm to firm, shop to shop, etc is really something at odds with the usual abundance of ninas kugon mentality, white elephant projects, etc that pervades most of this country. Do they get a "cut" or some kind of finder's fee for each PC confiscated?

He is simply doing his job, plain and simple.

It also doesn't hurt that part of the "penalty fee" goes to the department.

Anyway, this wasn't any different from years back when laser disc rentals were all in the rage and all the discs for rent were required to be registered and "stickered" by a government regulatory body known as VRB. And it was an open secret that whoever headed that department was pocketing a portion of the "fees" his department was getting.