Lyca rubbishes media reports linking it to online piracy
Lyca Productions, which is one of the biggest production houses producing several big budget films in Tamil today, has rubbished piracy allegations levelled against it by a website.
In a statement issued today, Lyca said, “A few days back, savukkuonline.com carried an article accusing Lyca Productions of advocating and propagating online piracy. Lyca Productions is a leading Indian film production and distribution company. The domain names under which the so called piracy activities were carried out are lycamovie.com and lycamovies.com.
“Lycamovie.com was created on May 21, 2014 under the admin name Tamil Tamilan. On May 22, 2014, the website was redirected to a Tamilgun.com, a popular online piracy site. On June 2, 2014, Lycamovies.com was created under the same admin name, Tamil Tamilan. Subsequently, Lycamovies.com too was redirected to Lycamovie.com.
Activities on both Lycamovies.com and Lycamovie.com were shut by June 29, 2014. At this point, we would like to clearly state that neither Lyca group nor Lyca Productions was in anyway associated with either of the domain names.
“Following this, the domain name, lycamovie.com was not renewed by the previous admin Tamil Tamilan and it became free. Lyca Group undertook the domain name Lycamovie.com on July 5, 2017. Lyca Group could not acquire the domain name Lycamovies.com as the domain name was renewed. It is common corporate practice to acquire domain names with prefixes and suffixes as a company expands.
“Presently, lycamovie.com is redirected to lycaproductions.in, Lyca Productions’s official website. We would like to reiterate that Lyca Productions was in no way associated with lycamovie.com prior to July 5, 2017. Also, post July 5, 2017, there has been no online piracy activities on lycamovie.com. Therefore, the allegations against Lyca Productions are baseless and intentional to defame the company name.
“As an organisation, Lyca Group has strongly advocated anti piracy norms and has taken extensive steps to curb piracy for both our films and other films. If there is any substantiating evidence against us, we are willing to clarify it in any forum.
“It is disappointing that a verified online site liek savukkuonline.com can carry such a defamatory article without clarifying with us. That goes completely against journalistic integrity. It is further disappointing when other media houses carry this without checking with us or clarifying the same. We have decided to take stringent action against the media houses and personalities who have spoken baselessly against Lyca Group.
“We at Lyca Productions believe in strong content creation and have always supported the film industry at every juncture. We request everyone not to believe baseless allegations and to clarify anything with us directly.”