How rampant is piracy in Bollywood music?

If piracy was such a big issue, it would have been handled by now. But that has not happened; the people in this business somehow need it to support their business goals. read more

Piracy is as rampant in Indian Film Industry as most other markets. The problem is that even folks who prefer a legal way to get their music have to jump through hoops. The options used to be - buying an entire (overpriced) CD, buying overpriced tracks from Amazon or iTunes (which don't have a great Hindi Music collection to begin with), or copying/downloading from friends/sites. read more

Most of hindi movies release in other countries like Pakistan, Sri Lanka etc. Pakistan is the hub of piracy !! In most of the pirated movies, you can see the watermark of some muslim name. read more

In fact, the Indian movie market (Bollywood) continued to grow massively and to thrive, even as piracy was rampant. That certainly seemed to contradict the old claim that infringement kills the incentives for content creation. read more