{"id":1008678,"date":"2026-05-19T10:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T04:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008678"},"modified":"2026-05-19T11:11:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T05:41:21","slug":"tfcc-turns-to-police-over-film-piracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/19\/tfcc-turns-to-police-over-film-piracy\/","title":{"rendered":"TFCC turns to police over film piracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: The Telugu Film Chamber of Commerce (TFCC) lodged a complaint with the Hyderabad Cybercrime police against illegal movie piracy platforms operating under the names iBomma and Bappam for allegedly streaming pirated content and promoting illegal betting applications. <\/p>\n<p>The complaint was filed by anti-video piracy cell project head Manindra Babu Yarra on behalf of the TFCC. <\/p>\n<p>According to the complaint, unidentified persons have been operating piracy platforms under the brand names \u201ciBomma\u201d and \u201cBappam,\u201d allegedly distributing and streaming copyrighted OTT and theatrical films without authorisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: The Telugu Film Chamber of Commerce (TFCC) lodged a complaint with the Hyderabad Cybercrime police against illegal movie piracy platforms operating under the names iBomma and Bappam for allegedly streaming pirated content and promoting illegal betting applications. The complaint was filed by anti-video piracy cell project head Manindra Babu Yarra on behalf of the TFCC. According to the complaint, unidentified persons have been operating piracy platforms under the brand names \u201ciBomma\u201d and \u201cBappam,\u201d allegedly distributing and streaming copyrighted OTT and theatrical films without authorisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008734,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008678\/revisions\/1008734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}