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“Piracy causes huge losses to filmmakers as well as to the government exchequer. Some suggestions received by the ministry are a strict enforcement mechanism under the copyright act and blocking of pirated websites,” said the second official.

Earlier, the Motion Pictures Association told the MIB that according to its data, approximately 90% of new releases appear illegally after being recorded on camera. Markmonitor Inc., an American software company that protects corporate brands from Internet counterfeiting, fraud, piracy, and cybersquatting, said in a 2016 report that there were 5.4 billion downloads of pirated films and television shows globally.

While countries such as the United States, Philippines and Korea have provisions to penalize illegal copying through recording, India does not even have uniform laws to deal with piracy, said filmmaker Ashoke Pandit. “There is a nexus between some politicians and the underworld that keeps the piracy industry running. Digital prints are easier to smuggle and the industry has roots in countries abroad,” he claimed. said. Kundan Hate, a wildlife activist and former functionary of WWF said that the forest department violated its own order, which stated that tranquillising efforts should be carried out first before elimination. Lawyer Tushar Mandlekar who fought against the shoot-atsight order of the state forest department on September 4 at the Supreme Court demanded a probe under special investigation team (SIT). Mandlekar claimed that orders to shoot the tigress issued by PCCF (wildlife) AK Mishra was in the name of Shafath Ali.