Los Angeles - Police in China conducting a recent raid on a movie pirating facility found what the Motion Picture Association International (MPAI) deemed to be the first pirated Blu-ray movie discs, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Over 800 discs were found, in packaging complete with counterfeit Blu-ray holograms.

According to reports, it appears that the pirates were able to defeat the Blu-ray encryption security, and then transfer the the contents to AVCHD format -- a downgrade from Blu-ray's 1080p to 720p, but still considered high-definition quality, and better than DVD.

"We are concerned and are assigning priority to this issue," Mike Ellis, managing director of Asia-Pacific for the Motion Picture Association, told the Journal.

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