Kerala Cyber Cell Killing Piracy ..!

There is some cheer for Malayalam film industry. The anti-piracy cell (APC) of the state police has discovered the major source of movie piracy with the capture of Sreenivasan from Bangalore who has led them to the prime links in the industry. According to the APC DySP S.Rafeeq, almost 80% of the piracy business is handled by this group identified by Sreenivasan and is a major breakthrough in anti-piracy investigations. During their search, they had arrested the manager and operator from Bangalore after discovering that they were shooting films from their theater secretly. More than 40 films were shot in this manner in the last six monthsand distributed. Most of them were Malayalam films. This was the first lead and the information obtained from the arrested persons led to Sreenivasan and the subsequent developments. The modus operandi was to maketwo copies of each movie, one of which was sent to Chennai and the other to a UK based Malayalee who uploaded these films. The UKbased youth is identified as Prem from Varkala. The Chennai copy was converted to several CDs by a group of Tamil youths staying in Burma Bazar and these pirated editions were sent to Bheemapally in Trivandrum for further distribution. The copying of films was done using sophisticated equipments. The clues have led to breaking the back of piracy industry and there are signs that there is a major slow down after the discovery. The uploading fromUK which had slowed down when the search was extended toUK, has stopped completely after the chase got closer.