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The state government has decided to amend the Preventive Detention Act to equate film pirates to goondas, bootleggers, drug offenders and land grabbers. The CID sleuths and the chief legal advisor of the CID, Mr Gopala Krishna, are working on drafting the amendment to the PD Act. The representative of AP film chamber anti-piracy wing, Mr Keshava Reddy, who is a former superintendent of police, along with the CID, is drafting the Act for AP by combining points from similar Acts in Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Kerala. A CID official said "Audio and video piracy was included in the Maharashtra Prevention of Dangerous Activists Act, the Tamil Nadu Goonda Act and the Kerala Goonda Act. Based on this, AP will be amending its PD Act adding film piracy to the list of offences."
