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Rs 695 in stores, Rs 150 on streets, Jaswant book a sellout everywhere
Expelled BJP leader Jaswant Singh’s controversial book on M A Jinnah is selling not only in its original form at legitimate bookstores, but also in pirated prints on the pavements.
Jinnah India-Partition Independence costs Rs 695 if you want an original from Rupa Publishers. The cost of a pirated version varies, as low as Rs 150 for those who can bargain and as high as Rs 250 for those who cannot.
At Bandra station, outside the ticket booking office on the west side, a street stall owner says he has not stopped selling copies for a week. “Every morning, I get around eight to 10 copies; by 5 pm, they are all sold out,” he says.
This vendor starts off by asking for Rs 250. “It costs Rs 700 in a big store,” he says, but later agrees to sell for Rs 180. By 3 pm on Sunday, he has just two copies left. He refuses to say where the stock comes from.
At Colaba, Fountain and Churchgate, at railway stations and signals, bargains are being sealed between Rs 150 and Rs 250. A buyer at Fort says, “The cover and the pages are of poor quality and the print is smudged at places, but it’s Ok for a quick read.”
Financial Express : Film body ropes in pvt players to check piracy
Anti piracy has again come to the fore for the Hindi film industry. The anti-piracy arm ICRA (Indian Cinema Rights Association) set up by some of the big companies in the industry, UTV Motion Pictures, Big Pictures and Moser Baer have stepped up its drive in Delhi and Mumbai—the hubs of film piracy.
To sharpen intelligence gathering, ICRA has roped in a Delhi-based consultancy called Assiduous, which has a network of people in places like Hyderabad and Mumbai. ICRA was set up about a month ago. Officials recently conducted raids in Maharashtra and Haryana, which resulted in seizure of close to 60,000 CDs and DVDs of various movies, including the recent releases Kaminey and Agyaat.
The anti-piracy efforts have reasons to be stepped up. A report published by US-based think tank RAND Corporation says video piracy worldwide is becoming a conduit for terrorism. For India therefore the implications are significant.
Chennai : 26665 Pirated videos seized
As many as 26,665 VCDs containing pirated version of latest Tamil and other language films were seized in a State-wide raid conducted by the Crime Branch CID police. Under the instructions of the Additional Director General of Police (Crimes) R. Sekar, special teams arrested 41 persons for indulging in the manufacture and sale of pirated VCDs.
Besides the VCDs, computers and electronic gadgets used by the suspects were also seized, a press release said.
MNCs seek detectives' help to check IPR violations-
In order to provide brand protection and curb duplication of products, IT, pharma, electronics, telecom and electrical goods manufacturing giants are approaching private detectives to safeguard them against Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) violation.
"A number of global firms have approached us seeking help to stop IPR infringement. Companies are really taking the issue seriously. We expect number to grow further," said Kunwar Vikram Singh, President, Association of Private Detectives of India.
Govt loses Rs 265 cr due to false reporting of cable numbers
The government is losing about Rs 265 crore of service tax collections annually in the top 20 towns due to cable operators under-declaring the number of subscribers.
These numbers have been submitted to the regulator, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), by various stakeholders in the cable industry, including broadcasters and multi-system operators (MSOs). These are based on the information collected from the tax departments of various state governments.
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The government is losing about Rs 265 crore of service tax collections annually in the top 20 towns due to cable operators under-declaring the number of subscribers.
These numbers have been submitted to the regulator, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), by various stakeholders in the cable industry, including broadcasters and multi-system operators (MSOs). These are based on the information collected from the tax departments of various state governments.
Over 30,000 pirated CDs on sale in Mysore were seized by the police on Tuesday
Over 30,000 pirated CDs that were on sale on the streets of Mysore were seized by the police on Tuesday.
Telugu film industry seeks transport dept’s help to curb piracy
Having identified Chennai as the primary source of piracy of Telugu films, the Telugu film industry has written to the Andhra Pradesh Transport Department and the State-owned public transport utility to keep tabs on smuggling of the DVDs from Chennai and Bangalore.
The letters also sought their cooperation in keeping a whistle on screening of these pirated DVDs and CDs by some transport operators.
“We have identified as many as one thousand small shops in Chennai where the copies of the recently released movies are being made in thousands. The consignments, then, enter into Andhra Pradesh by transport operators, particularly from Chennai and Bangalore,” Mr P. Keshava Reddy, former SP and Chief Co-Ordinator of Anti Video Piracy Cell of AP Film Chamber of Commerce, told Business Line.
Showing the copies of pirated prints of Pawan Kalyan-starrer Jalsa and Krishna (of Raviteja), he said the DVDs, each comprising at least three latest releases, were being sold at a price as low as Rs 10-15, offering a very attractive proposition to the film goers. Interestingly, they carried a Britain address -- which the police claim is a pseudo one.
He, however, admitted that the time-to-copy a new release had definitely increased from 2-3 days a few months ago to at least two weeks now.
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Having identified Chennai as the primary source of piracy of Telugu films, the Telugu film industry has written to the Andhra Pradesh Transport Department and the State-owned public transport utility to keep tabs on smuggling of the DVDs from Chennai and Bangalore.
The letters also sought their cooperation in keeping a whistle on screening of these pirated DVDs and CDs by some transport operators.
“We have identified as many as one thousand small shops in Chennai where the copies of the recently released movies are being made in thousands. The consignments, then, enter into Andhra Pradesh by transport operators, particularly from Chennai and Bangalore,” Mr P. Keshava Reddy, former SP and Chief Co-Ordinator of Anti Video Piracy Cell of AP Film Chamber of Commerce, told Business Line.
Showing the copies of pirated prints of Pawan Kalyan-starrer Jalsa and Krishna (of Raviteja), he said the DVDs, each comprising at least three latest releases, were being sold at a price as low as Rs 10-15, offering a very attractive proposition to the film goers. Interestingly, they carried a Britain address -- which the police claim is a pseudo one.
He, however, admitted that the time-to-copy a new release had definitely increased from 2-3 days a few months ago to at least two weeks now.
Bullshit Alert! Piracy dents taxman’s demand on Microsoft
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Microsoft enjoys a dominant position in the computer software market in India, with its operating system accounting for over 95 per cent share of India’s desktop market in 2006-07.
This included Windows XP Pro, Windows 2000, Windows ’95/98, Windows XP Home, Windows Vista and Windows NT, amongst others, according to a MAIT-IMRB survey which tracked operating systems on desktops across top 22 cities.
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However, software piracy remains a major problem for Microsoft in most emerging markets including India. Witness that India’s desktop PC sales are estimated at 5.75 million units in 2007-08 against 5.5 million units in the previous year; 4.61 million units in 2005-06; and 3.63 million units in 2004-05. The overall installed base of Personal Computer (PCs) in India is close to 25 million units today.
Bullshit alert! Financial Express : Computer software piracy costs India $2 billion!
Indian software industry lost about $2 billion of revenue this year due to use of pirated softwares, a study has said. A study by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), an international association representing the global software industry, showed that though computer software piracy rates in India declined, the country still registered losses of $2 billion in 2007 in monetary terms, compared to $1.28 billion in 2006. Piracy of software on personal computers in India has come down to 69 percentage points for 2007, toeing the global trend in which piracy rates dropped in most countries, the study said.
Cyclone videos are underground hit in Myanmar - IndianExpress.Com
Mg Zaw, who runs a video disc stall along Anawratha Road in central Yangon, said he started hawking the storm videos just two days after Nargis struck. “People buy them because they are interested in seeing what happened out there,” he said, eyes warily scanning for police conducting checks.
The discs are packaged in slim plastic holders with paper covers featuring grainy montages of bloated corpses floating in flood waters, collapsed houses and injured people being helped by villagers. Some sellers display them openly; others produce them only on request.
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Hidden behind a stacek of pornographic video discs, Yangon street vendor Mg Zaw has even more sought-after contraband: footage of the destruction caused by Cyclone Nargis, which cut a deadly path through Myanmar’s heartland two weeks ago.
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Mg Zaw, who runs a video disc stall along Anawratha Road in central Yangon, said he started hawking the storm videos just two days after Nargis struck. “People buy them because they are interested in seeing what happened out there,” he said, eyes warily scanning for police conducting checks.
The discs are packaged in slim plastic holders with paper covers featuring grainy montages of bloated corpses floating in flood waters, collapsed houses and injured people being helped by villagers. Some sellers display them openly; others produce them only on request.
The videos show hand-held camera footage of bloated water buffalo carcasses, wooden boats parked outside roofless buildings and homes flattened by the storm, as well as groups of survivors squatting on roadsides with their few remaining possessions in baskets or bags. In one video, two stray dogs sniff the ground near the corpse of a young woman lying face-up on a coconut palm leaf.
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Beemapally Muslim Jama-at backs anti-piracy drive
Beemapally Muslim Jama-at backs anti-piracy drive
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Thiruvananthapuram: The Beemapally Muslim Jama-at has warned video shop owners in its area against selling pirated versions of recently-released Malayalam movies.
Extending support to the community-based anti-piracy initiative of the State police Crime Branch, Jama-at office-bearers said the drive to prevent sale of pirated movies and pornography would be implemented in a phased manner in Beemapally.
Inspector-General of Police, Crime Branch, K. Padmakumar (who coordinates anti-piracy operations) said 45 traders in Beemappaly had agreed not to sell or procure pirated DVDs or VCDs of any Malayalam movie within five months of its release.
He said Jama-at office bearers were helping the police persuade local traders not to sell pornography.
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The traders will be given sufficient time for destroying their stock of pirated movies and pornographic films, following which the police will search their shops in the presence of community members.
The police focus will be more on curbing the sale of pirated versions of latest Malayalam films.
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