
Cracking Down: Inside the Telugu Film Piracy Racket
Published on: Sept. 29, 2025, 7:28 p.m. | Source: Devdiscourse
Police arrested five individuals behind a major racket distributing copyrighted films illegally, focusing on recent Telugu releases. Key players, Kumar and Amaladoss, hacked servers and used Telegram to circulate pirated HD content, causing massive financial loss to India's entertainment sector, especially the Telugu film industry.