: The Madras High Court Monday directed the Tamil Nadu Home Secretary and the DGP to hold meetings with people aggrieved by film piracy and find a solution to prevent it.
Justice Pushpa Satyanarayana gave this directive on a petition from the Film Exhibitors Association of Tiruchirapalli and and Thanjavur and adjourned the matter to November 28 for further hearing.
The association sought a direction to restrain police from arresting owners of cinemas, who are its members,based on complaints saying a film screened was captured on a camera unauthorisedly by cinema owners unless there was proof that these were done at their behest or in connivance with them.
Counsel for the petitioner K Ravi submitted that piracy has been a challenge to the film industry,though many measures had been taken to curb such illegal recordings.
While so, film producers were lodging false complaints against cinemaowners for being responsible for piracy and the resultant losses caused to them
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