Customs authorities in Hong Kong launched a citywide raid targeting party rooms suspected of using illegally copied karaoke sets. The operation, code-named 'Magpie,' involved seizing numerous items and arresting seven individuals.

Hong Kong customs has arrested seven people in a citywide crackdown on party rooms offering suspected illegal karaoke sets with songs that infringed copyright. The operation, code-named “Magpie”, took place between March 16 and Wednesday this week and involved more than 100 officers, who raided 14 party rooms, a bar and the residences of two online sellers. Ng Ka-chun, divisional commander of customs’ intellectual property technology crime investigation, said on Friday that authorities seized 28...