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MORE PORNOGRAPHIC TAPES SEIZED IN MONG KOK

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YEAR

PORNOGRAPHIC TAPES SEIZED IN MONG KOK UP TO NOVEMBER THIS TOTALLED 1,646 TAPES, ALMOST

TIMES MORE THAN THE 421 TAPES

FOUR

SEIZED LAST YEAR.

POLICE DISTRICT OPERATIONS

OFFICER OF MONG кок, CHIEF SAID THERE INSPECTOR ROBIN JOLLY,

WERE 45 PORNOGRAPHIC CASES AS PROSECUTED AGAINST 32 LAST YEAR AND TWO MORE CASES WERE SUCCESSFULLY FOR DECEPTION THIS YEAR.

CASES, A CANADIAN VISITOR IN ONE OF THE DECEPTION LETTER TO THE FORCE SAYING THAT HE SPENT $40 FOR A BUT FOUND THAT IT WAS BLANK.

WROTE A PORNOGRAPHIC TAPE

AN INVESTIGATIONS FOLLOWED. THE POLICE CHARGED

OPERATOR WITH SUSPECTED TO AN AGENT WHO WAS

NOT DECEPTION AS HE SOLD A BLANK TAPE TO BE A GENUINE CUSTOMER.

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SAID MR

JOLLY. "USUAL CHARGES TO AND POSSESSING

IMPRISIONMENT.

"THIS IS BETTER FOR US, PORNOGRAPHIC TAPE OPERATORS ARE PUBLISHING SUCH TAPES

LEADS TO ONLY ONE YEAR THEM FOR PUBLISHING, WHICH MAXIMUM IMPRISONMENT FOR DECEPTION IS THREE YEARS."

WERE "FIVE YEARS AGO, PORNOGRAPHIC TAPES AS TODAY." AT THAT TIME, ANY PERSON INTERESTED IN HAVE TO GO TO A SPECIAL PLACE TO BUY THEM.

"SUPPLY COMES AS DEMAND EXISTS. TODAY, TAPES AT SMALL COUNTERS UNDERNEATH STAIRCASES.

NOT SO

SUCH

WIDESPREAD

TAPES

WOULD

ANYONE

CAN BUY

THESE

+

CONSUMER

MARKET HAS

"THE POPULARITY OF VIDEO MACHINES IN THE ACCELERATED DEMAND FOR PORNOGRAPHIC TAPES." HE SAID.

REASONABLE

PROFITS

ΤΟ CONTRIBUTED

THE

SMALL INVESTMENT AND WIDE-SPREADING OF PORNOGRAPHIC TAPES, MR JOLLY SAID.

THESE TAPES COULD BE REPRODUCED IN RESIDENTIAL PREMISES AND

IN ONE CASE, POLICE OFFICERS SAW POSED NO GREAT PROBLEM.

A RACK ACCOMMODATING THREE PLAYERS, ONE TELEVISION RECORDERS AND MANY BLANK TAPES.

"COST OF A TAPE IS ABOUT $5 TO $7 AND

OF CALCULATION

REPRODUCTION VCR. A ROUGH $40,000.

$400

SET, 11 VIDEO CASSETTE

ABOUT

FOR $2,500

EACH COSTING COMES TO ABOUT

$250 то THAT

VARY FROM "RETAIL PRICES FOR EACH PORNOGRAPHIC TAPE DEPENDING

MR ON QUALITY.

JOLLY SAID. HE BELIEVED PORNOGRAPHIC LASER DISCS WERE ALSO AVAILABLE LOCALLY,

OPERATOR COULD

HE SAID HE WOULD SAY AN PROFIT FROM PRODUCING ANY TYPE OF TAPES.

OBTAIN A REASONABLE

FINES FOR THE OFFENCE AVERAGE BETWEEN $5,000 AND $7,000.

"THESE CAN

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