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Written by Patrick Frater
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Friday, 02 March 2007 |
HONG KONG -- A Mumbai court has convicted a pirate video wholesaler of intellectual property theft -- only India's sixth such conviction.
Sameer
Ahmed Qureshi, found selling DVDs of Hollywood and Indian movies, was
imprisoned for seven months and fined 55,000 rupees ($1,250).
"There
are more than 2,000 cases working their way through the (Indian)
judicial system," said legal counsel for the Motion Picture Assn.,
Chander M. Lall.
The MPA estimates that the movie industry as a whole loses $385 million per year to pirates in India.
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