adminmusic industry to speak strongly against piracy.
“Over the past months, the Task Force held several meetings to strategise on how best to fight piracy and adopted several strategies currently being implemented.
“Let all those who collude with pirates be sternly warned that the anti-piracy crusade will be more ruthless from now onwards and there will be no sacred cows.”
The taskforce launched the 100 Days Anti-Piracy Campaign on April 1 this year. The programme brought together the Zimbabwe Union of Musicians, Zimbabwe Music Rights Association, Zimbabwe Association of Recording Industries, the ZRP and some Government departments. The Minister said the blitz led to the arrest of 1 613 pirates and 407 were being tried countrywide while 213 were fined with 25 being imprisoned.
He said 71 891 pirated discs were seized during the blitz while material used by pirates in reproducing music and film products that included 15 computers, one monitor, 15 CPUs, 4 external hard drives, 70 laptops, three power suppliers, nine DVD players, two printers, 157 memory cards, eight speakers, 24 T flashes, one amplifier, six modulators and three cassettes were confiscated. “I would like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to members of the Task Force for their passion and commitment in these efforts to stamp out piracy and call upon corporate citizens and the general public to rally behind this effort,” said Minister Shamu.
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