The New York Post is reporting that two NYPD officers from the Staten Island Task Force are being investigated for allegedly receiving illegal payoffs from the MPAA, following successful busts of sellers of pirated DVDs.

It is alleged that investigative agents of the MPAA, the film industry cartel responsible for the recent shutting down of several BitTorrent tracker sites, would tip off the NYPD about locations where pirated DVDs were being sold, and would then, once the raids had occurred, pay gratuities to the officers involved, amounting to some hundreds of dollars. The MPAA denies the allegations.

“We don’t give cash to police officers,” said Bill Shannon, an MPAA anti-piracy official.