A month after X-Men Origins was leaked and touted as the end of the movie industry by the MPA, and a day after X-Men Origins topped the box office and raked in $87 million in its opening weekend, the Motion Picture Association is now claiming that piracy has helped fund D-Company, an organized crime syndicate-turned-terrorist group controlled by India’s most wanted criminal, Dawood Ibrahimhel. According to the Hollywood Reporter:
Having established itself in extortion, smuggling and contract killings in the 1980s, D-Company “transformed itself into a terrorist organization” in 1993 by orchestrating the “Black Friday” Mumbai serial bombings that killed more than 257 people. The report adds that D-Company then developed ties to al-Qaida and Kashmiri terrorist group Lakshar-e-Tayiba “while its leaders were exiled in Pakistan.”
“This report confirms an important fact that was known to the Indian film industry and local authorities. With its own investigative inputs, the Rand Corp. lends serious credibility to the fight against piracy and its links with terrorism and organized crime,” Michael Ellis, MPA president and managing director of the Asia Pacific region, said Monday.
Thats rubbish , however piracy does cause cancer and AIDS in small cute puppies.
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