KIM’S CRACKDOWN
As reported in Greg.org, and in today’s New York Times, The St. Mark’s Street location of Kim’s Video (aka Mondo Kim’s), a drycleaning establishment turned entertainment retail empire, was raided by police officers on Wednesday. Five store employees were charged with trademark counterfeiting. (Kim’s store on Avenue A, where employees routinely terrorized customers with their ornery service, was shuttered last fall.)
According to MTV.com, the raid focused on Kim’s mixtape business — not on its bootleg videos. Police “seized 27 music DVDs, nine DVD burners and several store computers. All of the CD-Rs and DVDs were described by an RIAA spokesperson as ‘urban in nature’ — mixtapes, featuring music by artists such as 50 Cent, Nelly, Alicia Keyes and Jay-Z.”
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