Man involved in pirating 40 movies arrested in Hyderabad

A 29-year-old man was arrested by the Hyderabad cybercrime police in connection with a complaint filed by the Telugu Film Chamber of Commerce (TFCC) regarding piracy of the movie ‘Single’.

The accused has been identified as Jana Kiran Kumar, a resident of NGO colony, Vanasthalipuram, Ranga Reddy district. He works as an AC technician and hails from East Godavari, Andhra Pradesh.

On June 5, a complaint was



registered by Yarra Manindra Babu, representing the anti-video piracy cell of the Telugu Film Chamber of Commerce (TFCC), stating that the movie ‘Single’, released on May 9, was illegally pirated and circulated online on the same day as its release.

The pirated versions of the movie were traced to popular piracy platforms like 1TamilBlasters, 5MoviezRulz, and 1TamilMV. Preliminary forensic watermarking pointed towards leakage from a theatre.