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stupid and bogus complaint...bcoz during raid the people do not take action against copyright person...many copyright companies have permission of penalty, for their power and rights hold...in india, there should be always a team like anti piracy cell to stop piracy...
this is a money making racket the local police and such copyright agents raid illegally any premises with computers and extort huge amounts. such cases are not reported to the higher authorities in POLICE, many are prey to such illegal raids. awareness is essential on this matter and the corrupt should be nailed.
Abtak copy right protection company is a company who only extorts the money from Innocent people . I have never heard that they got hold of people who sell pirated goods openly on roads. they only "raid" on establishments where they can extort the money and who are really never into "piracy". in 2006 they came in my office and after search they only found few old marathi songs on computer but when they did not find any thing else after lot of search they took out 3 CD's from their own pockets which had hindi songs and thats it, they said I have created a grave crime and punishment is JAIL, Give us 50, 000 or we will take all the computers with us and you will land up in jail. and as said in earlier complaint they had two Policeman with them from local police station. and when I refused to pay they arrested me and made a case against me and after that I had the most horrified experiance of my life. and even after 6 years I am still attending court on every date and 95% times these bunch of thieves dont even attend the court.
People who have suffered from extortion of Abtak copyright should come together and should take the mater to authority and should make criminal harassment cases against them.
People who have suffered from extortion of Abtak copyright should come together and should take the mater to authority and should make criminal harassment cases against them.
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Abtak Copyright Protection — Extortion from innocent people
The people of this company are illegally trying to extort money by disguising themselves as copyright activists. The people involved are Ansari and Javed who with the help of police enter commercial premises, look for mp3 songs and then blackmail of seizing computers and arresting people. They then start demanding 15 lacs. Many of my neighbours have paid loads of money to these fraud people. Please be beware of them. If they approach you it is better to contact the Additional Commissioner of Police.Please read the article published by time of india.http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/iplarticleshow/916073.cms?prtpage=1
Its reproduced as below:
'Anti-piracy' men in extortion racket
S Ahmed Ali, TNN, Dec 24, 2006, 11.56pm IST
MUMBAI: An extortion racket, which could involve men in uniform and "copyright activists", has come to light in Ghatkopar. Two members of the Abtak Copyright Protection (ACP) have been arrested although three others have fled.
Mumbai police commissioner A N Roy said one of those arrested was a partner in the organisation whose members identified them as being from "ACP". But he avoided a direct answer to a question on the involvement of policemen.
"Further investigations are on and, if anything like that comes to light, we will not hesitate to take action against our men," he said. The two arrested were identified as Anthony Michael and Rajesh Mishra and the absconders were said to be Shailendra Chandra, Anwar Hussain Mallik and Salian Nadar.
The racket came to light after one "copyright activist" went to the office of Samsung Electronic Private Limited to conduct a "search" along with "policemen" on Friday.
Samsung senior manager M C Chakravarthy claimed five members of ACP, "along with one sub-inspector and one constable", arrived at the office and informed him that they had a tip-off. They then started searching data on the computer. "Some of my employees had downloaded a few songs from new Hindi films like Fanaa, No Entry and Gangster on to a computer.
They told me that they would seal this office and arrest me under the Copyright Act and demanded Rs 2.5 lakh for letting me go. I got scared and immediately intimated to my head office in Delhi," he said.
The "policemen" and the ACP representatives then started reducing the bribe amount. They reduced it to Rs 1.2 lakh when a senior company official from Delhi spoke to police commissioner Roy.
There are allegations that the same set of copyright activists have extorted huge sums from courier firms, share-brokers and businessmen.
A reputed share-broker (name withheld), having an office in Pant Nagar, said ACP extorted a sum of Rs 50,000 from him.
One victim, who spoke to TOI, asked: "Do policemen and copyright activists have the right to take action on consumers using pirated goods? Why don't they target those who are indulging in piracy and selling pirated goods?"
Ghatkopar police station senior inpsector S Padwal denied that his officers were involved in any way. "We did not know of this extortion by copyright activists but we will keep a stricter watch now," he added.