Blockbuster to close all its Spanish stores

By 2006-03-16T04:00:00

The company attributed the closure,which will affect some 688 employees, to a dramatically increasing rate ofpiracy, citing Spanish Video Union (UVE) statistics reflecting anindexrise from 5% to 60% in the last three years.

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