It didn’t take the DVD pirates long to get illegal copies of the year’s hottest movie onto the streets of New York, and it didn’t take the NYPD long to launch a crackdown. “Cops seized 1,000 pirated copies of Star Wars: Episode III – just 36 hours after its debut. The illegal DVDs, selling for less than half the price of a movie ticket, were stacked nearly to the ceiling of a Harlem storage facility, alongside 40,000 other illegal disks.”