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IMI completed over 10,000 raids since the year 2000 including over 1692 raids until the beginning of this month . Warner Seizures. Hit - Hindi Film Titles Indi-POP Hits. Top Spiritual Titles. HOTPIKS – From Planet M. International Chart Busters. Groove To World Music.

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GOONDA Act to be introduced in Kerala. Delhi loot worth 17 lacs. Huge Raids In Small Towns. Mumbai Masala - Raid on a Pirate's godown at Khar.With the Kerala model well in place, another state down South swung into action to bring piraters to task.

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TIPS INDUSTRIES employee resigns. IMI COMPLETES HIGHEST EVER RAIDS IN A SINGLE MONTH. Wide Spread Piracy in 'AMMA' Land. Dugobh Replication India Ltd. raided. 50000 pirated CD's in the net of Kerala Catch.

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IMI raided over 200 premises in Kerala and got 213 notorious pirates arrested. the IMI team has taken another brave step of proposing to the Tamil Nadu State Government, the Introduction Of The GOONDA ACT. DELHI SHIVERS AS NASEEM AHMED ARRESTED.

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IMI felicitates ex-police commissioner Mr.J.F. Ribeiro. Mobile

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IMI ChairmanIMI joins hands with NOKIA. IMI chairman Subroto Chatopadhyay said, “We are pleased to partner with Nokia Nseries. Music piracy is a growing menace in most markets including India and has grown at an alarming rate of 56 per cent in 2005. Our partnership with Nokia Nseries will go a long way in creating a new revenue stream for the industry at large as well as help curb illegal distribution of music content.”

IMI cracks the whip on Mobile Chip Pirates

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. V.J.Lazarus

Lashing out at the pirates and keen to eradicate Piracy from the Music Industry heres what Mr. V.J.Lazarus, President of The Indian Music Industry, had to say in an exclsuive interview to our reporter at the FICCI FRAMES held at the Rennaiscance, Mumbai on the 28th of March 2007

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In a historic Judgement ever made by the Indian Legal system against the Pirates, The Magistrate in Jabalpur, sentenced the accused Ashish Kumar Jain to 2 ½ years RI u/s 63 and 2 ½ years u/s 68A of the Copyright Act. Both sentences will run concurrently. The Magistrate also imposed a fine of Rs. 1 lakhs u/s 63 and Rs. 10,000/- u/s 68A and ordered confiscation of the seized material.

Powerful Pirates arrested

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Rajat KakarAN ONLINE VIDEO of the exclusive Interview with Mr.Rajat Kakar, MD, Universal Music India.

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Kumar Taurani

AN ONLINE VIDEO of the exclusive Interview with Mr.Kumar Taurani, CMD, TIPS Industries Ltd.

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Ramesh Jagtiani, Director - Operations, PPL " I don’t want to get onto figures but with Mr. Lazarus’s acumen, management skills, foresight, vision and proven experience I would say that the future for PPLis exceedingly bright. This also means that we’ll have pressures that every organization goes through. But that makes it all the more exciting because if there are no pressures, then life is too dull. "

- Mr.Ramesh Jagtiani, Director - Operations, PPL.

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Shridhar Subramaniam, MD, SONY BMG"I think Sony has obviously got very aggressive plans here in India in every aspect of its vertical businesses. Yes 2 billion is possibly the first step"

"The Industry will probably have 8 to 10 music companies in the next 12 to 18 months all of them having predominantly a national footprint."

"....We are going to enter the Punjab market, we are entering the south Indian market in the next few months...."

Mr.Shridhar Subramaniam, Managing Director, SONY BMG

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November 1st 2007 13th

 

Subroto Chattopadhyay, MD, SAREGAMA INDIA Ltd.

Mr.Subroto Chattopadhyay, MD, Saregama India Ltd.

"I think SONY is an outstanding company and there is much we can learn from them....."

"If you buy a bottle of Coke for Rs.10 bucks then I don’t think you have reason to complain when you have to buy a LATA MANGESHKAR soundtrack for Rs.12. "

"I think IMI has to reinvent itself to police DIGITAL PIRACY and also build a strong public awareness campaign.."

"If you are passionate about music, it is better to pay for the content you enjoy because only then will more content be created."

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SAREGAMA India Video

December 1st 2007 14th

 

Gurmeet Sing, MD, Music Today

Mr.Gurmeet Singh, MD, Music Today

..."I’d like to proudly announce our tie up with STAR PLUS where we are going to release over 200 hours of STAR TV software. It’s a first of its kind tie of this scale & magnitude in the Indian Music Market."...

..."Times Music is our competitor in the spiritual and devotional segment and Saregama is our competitor in the Indian Classical Segment. As for T-Series, they are not a competitor in the real sense but more of a nuisance value."...

 

"Currently, labels are slowly losing interest in promoting the Indian classical music due to the falling prices. I think this will be an opportunity for us to consolidate our position in the market and gradually increase prices of our products."...

..."PIRACY is as much a nuisance value for me as it is for a bollywood film music produced by SAREGAMA. But the problem is how do we get IMI’s attention onto it and how do we get IMI’s resources onto it?..."

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