CHENNAI: The Central Crime Branch police on Friday seized pirated copies of audio and video DVDs of the recently released Tamil film ‘Sivaji’.
On a tip-off that audio and video DVDs were sold at Kumaran Colony in Vadapalani, the police conducted a raid and secured C. Raviraj. Interrogation revealed that he got the copies from Puduchery. The police have filed cases under the Copyright Act and the IPC.
The police also seized 350 pirated copies of other Tamil movies, English movies and obscene movies, all valued at Rs 5.21 lakh.
A representative of AVM Productions, the producers of ‘Sivaji,’ said it received information that a person was selling the DVD and audio CD of the Tamil film on the pavements of Kumaran Colony. Immediately, it informed the police. The DVD copies, he said, were made from a ‘camera print’ (shot clandestinely in a cinema hall).
The production house said that unlike in the past, it was unable to trace the theatre where the recording was made. The films screened in theatres would have ‘secret markings.’ But the pirates had found a way to erase them with the video-editing technology, he said.
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