India


The PA has been running an antipiracy campaign in India since the year 2000. It is by far the most productive of our campaigns in terms of the sheer number of books seized. In 2006 some 200,000 books were seized, taking the total number of titles seized over the last six years to 700,000.

The campaign statistics are as follows:

Businesses Investigated       936
Businesses raided                 312
Books Seized                           710,170
Pirated CD- Roms Seized     1,800
Printing Press seized             11
Photocopiers seized               62
Arrested pirates                       328
No. of man days in custody   1,346
No. of Court cases                  110
No. of Court hearings             563

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