1. ROYAL IPR SECURITY SERVICES (PVT) LTD has been incorporated and registered with the Registrar Joint Stock Companies under Companies Act XLVII of 1948. Team of professionals having vast experience in their respective fields manages the Company. A service-oriented company deals specifically in investigative activities, safety, security, protection of IPR and safeguarding of Copyrights. Having two main divisions; Operational & Legal, the company handles all IPR cases from collecting evidence of offences through investigations, enforcement of law of land to registration of criminal cases and pursuing the cases in courts, all over the country. Retired senior government officer having vast experience in security, intelligence and law enforcement heads the management. The Operational Division consists of trained and motivated investigators having ample experience in carrying out corporate investigations, locating pirates, detecting the counterfeits, organizing the anti piracy raids. Similarly, a well-trained and thorough professional penal of lawyers, is handling all IPR related criminal or civil cases, in Legal Division. The main office is located at, 43/4/P (B), PECHS-6, Karachi, Pakistan, having appropriate infra structure in shape of large office space, vehicles, telephones/Fax and E-mail. The regional offices are located at Lahore, Rawalpindi, Islamabad and Quetta.
2. Royal has the honoured and distinction to provide, for the first time in Pakistan, an easily accessible relief to Intellectual Property owners through "single window operations" on a well orgnised way. At present, "Royal" has to its credit investigative activities carried out or anti piracy raids conducted and criminal cases registered against criminals in all major towns of Pakistan like Karachi, Lahore, Quetta, Peshawar, Multan, Islamabad/Rawalpindi, Faisalabad, Jehlum, Chakwal, D I Khan, Sukker and Hyderabad. These activities, through law enforcers, are being directed towards the criminals indulging in various crimes including audio, video, software, pharmaceuticals, consumers' goods, satellite channels and book piracy/counterfeit. Some of our past and present clients include, Harcourt Publishers, Mc Graw Hill, LWW Publishers, Pearson Education, Oxford University Press, Paramount Books, Nelson Publications, Red Spot Publications, John Willey UK, Stanford UK, Microsoft, Auto Desk, Proctor & Gamble, STAR TV, HBO, PEHLA PLUS Satellite Channels, Sound Master, DJ Music, Sonic, HeRA, CA Sports, Hitachi, Sanyo, Sony and host of local firms/IPR owners. There is 100% conviction rate of all criminal cases registered through "Royal"!!!

(Since the whole business being illegal, neither the IPR owners nor the nation get any thing out of these billions. Every Cable operator is not only causing revenue losses, but also destroying the moral fibres of our society by flooding each household with vulgar obscene and uncensored films/programmes. The licensing authority; PTA has no means to police them.)

9. At present following issues and irritants are not only acting adversely in controlling the blatant piracy but also creating hindrance in generating additional revenues for the nation: -
a. ENFORCEMENT OF LAW: - The enforcement of Copyright laws has been entrusted to the local police. Despite simple, cognizable and non-bailable requiring a police officer not below the rank of Sub Inspector to conduct the raid, the enforcement level remains very poor. The basic reasons for this are: -

1. The local police, being over committed in "other matters" seldom accord any priority to this crime.
2. Lack of education or knowledge about Copyright law among local police, becomes impediments to prepare them for initiating criminal cases against the law violators. A considerable time and resources are spent in liaison, education and training of the police officials, but frequent postings/transfers of these official result into restarting the whole process hence wastage of resources and delay.
3. Later, after registration of cases, submission of "challans" to the courts are delayed considerably due the official's heavy commitments elsewhere or postings/transfers.
4. The delay in filing of "challans" to courts, results in "justice delayed" indefinitely and the law violators continue doing illegal activity with complete immunity.
5. This situation results into unnecessary wastage of national resources and encourages lawlessness.

b. COURT DECISIONS. The results of anti piracy criminal cases become redundant, due to the delay in case decisions or negligible sentences. Some of the reasons for such results are: -

1. Magistrates, who are also Executives of their respective sub divisions, being committed in other "pressing" jobs, are not available for proceeding with the copyright cases regularly.
2. The offenders continue to break the law blatantly, due to non-disposal of case quickly and in time.
3. Prolonged hearing dates, not only fades out the effects of criminal case but also result in encouragement to law violation.
4. Due to lack of proper training and education about the Copyright law, punishments awarded by the magistrates so far in some decided cases had been terribly insignificant, thus encouraging more law violation.

c. LACUNA IN LAWS. There is an inherent lacuna in Copyright law. The minimum mandatory punishment upon conviction is not been given and has been left to the discretion of presiding magistrates. Unfortunately, for various reasons, the advantage of this lacuna invariably is going to the law violator, who is invariably let off with paltry fine of Rs 100.00. It would be interesting to note that out of 4763 criminal cases registered so far,the courts with 100 % convictions have decided 4600 cases. However unfortunately, the there had not been a single imprisonment and even the fines imposed had been negligible. Had there been minimum of Rs 50,000.00 as fine in each case, (which each pirate can easily afford to pay), the nation could have been richer by Rs 230.000,000.00. Revenue to the tune of Rs 8,150,000.00 can still be generated from just 163 pending cases without causing any burden on treasury. A lot more can be achieved from the future cases.)

d. RAMPANT SMUGGLING. Another cause of revenue losses in shape of lost taxes is the rampant smuggling of LDs, VCDs, DVDs and CD-ROM. Despite having some degree of enforcement under Copyright law, the piracy continues to flourish in various forms. The fresh consignment of infringing copies fill in the space immediately while the shelves are emptied through raids on the VHS format of piracy. The main cause of this vicious circle is, massive smuggling in, of LDs, VCDs and DVDs, through land, air and sea. Any body can bring any kind of film into the country under the garb of personal baggage. The counterfeit VCDs or DVDs, being identical to computer CDs (CD-ROM) can easily be smuggled in. A normal size briefcase is enough to smuggle the films in DVD or VCD format, worth millions of rupees. Not only that, but the smuggling in of these films on VCD/DVD becomes a major source of back-to-back piracy, resulting into phenomenal revenue losses. The smuggled LDs, VCDs and DVDs have flooded the market. The number is rising with each passing day, thus causing colossal damage to the national economy in shape of lost taxes.