(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-08-23 09:02

Hong Kong customs officers seized 32 computers with unlicensed software and 85 pirated software discs in a two-day operation, according to news from the Information Services Department of Hong Kong Special Administration Region government on Wednesday.

All the computers and discs were worth about HK$143,000 (US$18,333).

Officers seized four computers and 83 discs from three shops in Hong Kong on Tuesday. The discs were used to install infringing software on to the computers, as ordered by customers.

Investigators also raided a Kowloon Bay spectacle manufacturing company on August 20, seizing 28 computers installed with infringing software and two pirated discs.

Six men and a woman, aged 26 to 49, including a company director and two shop proprietors, were arrested. They were then granted bail, pending further investigation.