A good quality capture of Kamal Haasan’s Vishwaroopam leaked on an illegal website on Saturday, but the producers’ consultant said links to it were being brought down quickly.
Copyrights
Media, a consultancy firm helping Raajkamal Films identify and bring
down video pirates, said a complaint had been filed with the Police
Commissioner’s office and that 85 links that showed up on Google search
on the illegal content had been brought down.
S.
Sudarshan of Copyrights Media said only 20 minutes of content had shown
up on the website and they had filed a complaint with the Cybercrime
division of the Chennai Police. They were also keeping a close watch on
possible video links on YouTube and had the capability to shut them down
within a few minutes.
Several fans of Kamal Haasan
also turned vigilantes online to help Copyrights Media identify possible
pirates who might upload the movie files on popular Torrent sharing
websites. The email address of the firm — copyrightsmedia.in@gmail.com —
went viral.
Several users, who changed their profile
images to ‘I support Kamal Haasan,’ took a vow not just to wait and
watch the movie at theatres but also help identify video pirates to
ensure that the film, which has been facing delay in reaching the cinema
screens in parts of South India, does not suffer further losses.
There
were claims that some “camera prints” shot inside a cinema auditorium
abroad were already out. But most of the files have been found to be
fake. At the time of our going to press, not all claims of the Torrent
files could be ascertained.
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