Bobby Bedi who is currently producing a three-film series on the epic Mahabharat, at an estimated $70 billion budget, has complained to the United States Congress that enforcement authorities have been lax in dealing with peddlers of counterfeit Indian movies.
Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt said in Lok Sabha the Navy deployed its units in the Gulf of Aden and East coast of Africa towards anti-piracy patrols since 2008 and a total of 3,440 ships and over 25,000 seafarers have been "safely escorted".
The music industry worldwide would be suffering a loss of 40 per cent by 2010 due to piracy, mostly in the retail form. Among the many challenges, the advent of Internet has made detection of the piracy difficult, says Secretary General of the Indian Music Industry association Savio D'Souza.
Piracy on personal computers in India fell to 69 per cent for 2007 from 71 per cent in 2006. However, industry losses due to it rose to $2 billion (around Rs 8,500 crore) in 2007 from $1.28 billion in 2006. Globally, the loss increased by a whopping 500 per cent from $8 billion to $48 billion.
The Russian-drafted resolution, which passed unanimously by all 15 member-states of the Security Council, appealed to all countries 'to criminalise piracy under their domestic law and favourably consider the prosecution of suspected, and imprisonment of convicted, pirates apprehended off the coast of Somalia, consistent with applicable international human rights law.'
The 14,000 crore (Rs 140 billion) Indian film industry lost a whopping Rs 3,000-4,000 crore (Rs 30-40 billion) in the last fiscal to rampant video and music piracy, a top production house official said.
The Indian Navy rescued the hijacked Iranian fishing vessel 'Al-Kambar 786' and its crew after more than 12 hours of intense coercive tactical measures as part of an anti-piracy operation on March 29.
Three piracy attempts in last four days in the Gulf of Aden have been thwarted by the Indian Navy which neutralised eight armed Somali pirates, navy officials said on Monday.
Kelly said both he and his boss, the Assistant Secretary for Political Military Affairs, Andrew Shapiro, have travelled to India recently to talk to Indian counterparts about our shared strategy and efforts to combat piracy.
The entertainment industy has always worried about piracy, but now it is concerned about the good quality of pirated DVD's or CD's. Now the pirated DVD/VCDs are of the highest quality rather than shot secretly in a movie hall. According to a report by US-India Business Council, the Indian media & entertainment industry worth close to $6500 mn is losing a little over $4000 mn per year due to piracy. Experts feel govt should implement some stringent laws on copyright violation.
This rampant form of piracy has caused huge losses to both American and Indian entertainment companies.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who left for Washington on Saturday, is likely to take up with the US authorities the issue of video and cable piracy that has been causing huge losses to both American and Indian entertainment companies.
The National Association of Software and Services Companies and the Business Software Alliance have joined hands to check software piracy, which resulted in the loss of $367 million in 2004, in India.\n\n
The Indian Navy rescued an Iranian-flagged fishing vessel with 19 Pakistani crew members and a Sri Lankan trawler in two swift operations after armed pirates hijacked the boats in the Arabian Sea amid deteriorating security situation arising out of Iran-backed Houthi rebels targeting various cargo ships in the region.
Concerned at growing sea piracy in the Indian Ocean, particularly off the Horn of Africa, the Indian Ocean RIM - Association for Regional Cooperation (IOR-ARC) on Tuesday pledged to jointly combat the menace through sharing of information and technical assistance.
A distinct number of new computers being sold today are fitted with counterfeit, refurbished or sub-standard components.
India's burgeoning entertainment industry loses as much as $ 4 billion and 800,000 direct jobs each year due to counterfeiting and piracy, a latest study says. The study -- The effects of counterfeiting & piracy on India's entertainment industry -- was prepared by Ernst & Young India. It was commissioned as part of the USIBC-FICCI Bollywood-Hollywood Initiative, which promotes the sustainable growth & convergence underway between the entertainment industries of the US & India
Navy officials on Monday said that the swift response by the Indian Navy's mission deployed warship INS Sumitra ensured the safe release of the hijacked vessel and its crew.
Singh said India has intensified patrolling of the seas after the recent attacks on merchant navy ships.
The world needs to wake up to this new dimension of war at sea and be prepared to face the 'unknown enemy' who have the advantage of attacking at their choice of location and time, cautions Commodore Venugopal Menon (retd).
Close to 300 dealers and resellers from Ahmedabad, 300 from Surat, 150 from Vadodara, 75 from Vapi, 75 from Ankleshwar-Bharuch and 50 from Navsari have pledged support to SITA.
The Indian Navy's 'mission deployed' guided missile destroyer INS Visakhapatnam responded to the attack within an hour of receiving a distress call from the vessel Genco Picardy, they said.
The National Security Strategy document should flag all major issues concerning security strategy and provide guidelines to concerned departments to work out suitable action plans. Since the global and regional geopolitical canvas is dynamic, the NSS document should be deliberated at length before formulation and should be reviewed periodically, recommends Commodore Venugopal Menon (retd).
The optical disk legislation is being worked out in the country to curb film piracy, Union Urban Development and Culture Minister, S Jaipal Reddy, said in Panaji on Thursday.
Sophisticated Internet users have banded together over the last two days to publish and widely distribute a secret code used by the technology and movie industries to prevent piracy of high-definition movies.
Issues related with intellectual property rights, including piracy of films and software, figured prominently during the India-US CEO Forum in New Delhi attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama.
'Prabhas's look in the film is a guarded secret.' 'Such an irresponsible act of vandalism is extremely damaging to the project.'
According to Nasscom estimates, Rs 900 crore in revenue was lost in 1999-2000, Rs 1200 crore in 2000-01 and Rs 1700 crore.
International publishers like Pearson Education and McGraw-Hill are planning not to extend licence agreements with their Indian partners or units to publish low-cost editions in India and will opt for imports instead.
In another feat, Lt Jamyang Tsewang, the first commissioned naval officer from Ladakh, also successfully graduated as a qualified helicopter pilot, according to the Indian Navy.
Hardee is on a mission to roll back the rising tide of piracy in Asia-Pacific.
India is among the top ten countries in the world with highest number of online piracy cases, which pose a big threat to the country's film and television industry, according to a research commissioned by the Motion Picture Distributors Association (MPDA).
In a major development, INS Godavari has successfully foiled a piracy attempt on Greek ship MV Elinakos in the Gulf of Aden, a navy statement said on Tuesday.
'The Indian government is better prepared this time and has reached out to all contenders and not putting all eggs in one basket.'
'In the audience's mind there is no urgency to go see a film in the theatre.' 'If you pay for social media buzz it does not convert into bums on seats.'
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