RS 22,400 Crore scandal reveals how the film piracy fraud is devastating the Indian entertainment industry

In a report recently displayed by Ey-Imia, 51% of Indian users access illegal streaming platforms, social media, apps and torrents to copy content.

Piracy was a global topic for almost every film industry around the world. Surprisingly, India is the world leader for online video piracy with around 90.3 million users. Second, Indonesia is on the list with 47.5 million and the Philippines with 31.1 million users. A report by Media Partners Asia, which was examined by Economic Times and EY, supported the study.

The Indian film industry was the victim of an online video. Days before a film receives a theater release, the film was already available on several pirated copies. Films such as RAID 2, Sikandar, Jaat and many such films fell victim to the piracy and were reportedly published one day before the release date.

During a conversation with ET, a high -ranking policeman in Maharashtra raised the growing concerns that Indian films were leaked on several websites before his premiere. “There is a growing trend of films, especially Hindi and Tamil films that are leaked the day before the publication. In such cases, the role of an insider is suspected,” said the policeman.

The trade analyst Girish Wankhede emphasized the most important points where leaky films will probably be the task of an insider. “Piracy implies before the day of publication of a film that it is an insider job … post-production studios, content-related agencies and shameful elements in exhibition companies,” emphasized Girish.

In a report by Ey -Saai on the Internet and the Mobile Association of India (Iamai) it was shown that the majority of 51 percent of Indian users use pirated copies. The source was probably illegal streaming platforms, mobile apps, social media, currents and much more. Especially the application such as Telegram can download large files and contribute to many content -potting copies.

Subhash Chandra, emeritus chairman of Zee and Essel Group, emphasized that “pirated copies were one of the quietest sources”. “Terror networks do not survive in the ideology alone. They survive money and the researcher content is one of their calmest sources,” said Zee, “said Zee

In a shocking turn of events, a report from 2023 showed that pirated copies for theater and 8,700 billion rupees for Ott platforms that run in India caused an enormous loss of 13,700 billion rupees. The report also showed that pirated copies content have strongly influenced medium -sized to small budget films. On the other hand, the Big Budget films can complete a deal with several streaming platforms despite the content of the content.

Many producers claim that their films become a goal if there is a sum of a bullet during the pre -publication of a film. I look forward to the likelihood of becoming the next goal and contacting many of the online piracy. Although online piracy causes financial outflow, this increases the number of public spectators.
In order to tackle online piracy, industry experts are pushing for a “multi-layered” technology that urge piracy to the other.

The trade expert Girish emphasized that companies build and practice parts of films into three encrypted parts, which can only be accessed by a password check. However, this technology is currently under development, but is probably effective against online piracy.

A company, Block X Technologies, works with production houses to filter out the further development of artificial intelligence. This can probably help to eliminate pirated copies with the help of AI bots. This technology is proposed for long -term use in the industry.