Street vendors display Indian National Flags ahead of Independence Day, in Delhi
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Street vendors display Indian National Flags, or Tiranga, along a roadside in Delhi, India, ahead of Independence Day on 15 August.
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Pirated DVDs being sold on a streetside in India
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Under the harsh glare of halogen bulbs, cheaply packaged DVDs sell briskly. You ask for it, it's there - blockbusters released a day ago, a classic from the '50s, a Ray or Ghatak masterpiece, Hollywood best-sellers and even movies that have only been released at film festivals. TOI found that the piracy chain that ends up with a street-smart peddler in a dingy lane begins with the highest echelons of the film industry, with links to Mumbai, Singapore and Dubai. We even found pirated DVDs with censor board watermarks. So how do these DVDs come to the market? A source involved in the trade said that there may be insiders in the censor board and distribution houses who sell these copies for up to Rs 5 lakh to a few shady dealers. The copies are then uploaded on certain private portals that ha
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