kolkata the bengali music industry wants the west bengal government to introduce the goonda act and include music piracy as a major offencethe eastern india music and home video producers association is set to meet chief minister mamata banerjee and urge several steps including the introduction of the goonda act to to prevent piracyof all the music sales 60 percent is through digital means while the rest 40 percent is through physical forms like cds dvds with innumerable spurious web sites offering free music downloads it is almost impossible to curb piracy until and unless we have exhaustive and stringent cyber laws says ds lahiri of asha audio if states like karnataka tamil nadu and kerala can use the goonda act to tackle video and music piracy why cant we have the same law here if the government can help curb physical piracy it will help us at least to survive said shashikant gathani of gathani recordsaccording to the audio companies sales up have come down by 70 percent due to piracyalong with stringent laws it is also necessary that the industry is made aware of the relevant intellectual property lawsif we dont care about our own creations then who will to fight piracy it is essential that we all are aware of the relevant laws and use them to protect our creations we need to use the copyright act extensively said film producer shubojit roy