Our good friends over there at the Indian Music Industry have said they have conducted an anti-piracy raid in New Delhi where they seized over 90,000 counterfeit CDs and other goods with a street value of 200 million rupees (£2.3 million), which is rather a lot. 19 CD stampers were seized (if I knew anything about CD manufacturing I'd tell you what a stamper is, but unfortunately I don't), and the plant owner was arrested.
Confirming the raid, IMI president VJ Lazarus said in a statement yesterday: "IMI has been working for the last ten years to control piracy and in the last four months itself, it has conducted raids on two of Delhi's biggest CD plants. We have reason to believe that this is a piracy network spanning the whole of Northern India. We will fight for justice against these pirates till the very end."
The music piracy trade in India is significant. So much so, yesterday's raid was not the biggest undertaken by IMI - back in July they seized 300 million rupees worth of counterfeit goods at another New Delhi manufacturing plant.