29/09/2025
HYDERABAD CYBER CRIME POLICE BUST THE MAJOR NETWORK OF MOVIE PIRACY RING AND ARREST FIVE KEY ACCUSED
Piracy significantly impacts the Indian film industry, causing substantial financial losses and hindering its growth. In 2023, the Indian entertainment industry suffered an estimated ₹22,400 Crore loss due to piracy. This includes losses due to pirated content from both the movie theaters and the OTТ platforms.
WHY PIRACY:
People want to watch the content immediately after it is released
Usually there is a window of 6-8 weeks for the OTT release and people won’t wait for that long
Producers spend years creating a movie, hiring actors, renting equipment, and promoting the film by putting their heart and soul with their hard eared money. Before they could even fully market or monetize, pirated films are released and eat into their rightful revenues.
Hundreds and thousands of people like the daily wage workers, junior artists, technicians, etc. and in fact the entire film industry is affected.
There is a misconception that pirated content is free. It is a fallacy. There is nothing free in the world. The ‘free’ pirated content comes with a huge cost. Piracy is used as bait, as a trap to steal people’s identities, to infringe on data privacy, to spread malware, which will then lead to online fraud, financial scams and other Cyber Crimes.
The Cyber Crime Police of Hyderabad has successfully dismantled the major movie piracy racket by arresting five (5) key individuals involved in the illegal distribution of copyrighted films and issuing notices to 5 individuals for aiding and abetting the fraud. These arrests are the sequel of comprehensive investigation into the piracy of several new Telugu films including "HIT: The Third Case", " ", “Kuberaa” and “Hari Hara Veera Mallu” which have been uploaded onto the illegal websites: 1TamilBlasters, 5MoviezRulz, and 1TamilMV
CASE DETAILS AND INVESTIGATION :
On 05.06.2025 at 1200 hours, a complaint was filed by Sri Yarra Manindra Babu, representing the Anti-Video Piracy Cell of the Telugu Film Chamber of Commerce (TFCC), Hyderabad. He reported that the Telugu film " " (released on May 9, 2025), H
