[India] Bollywood movie ‘Housefull’ is releasing worldwide this friday and the director, Sajid Khan wants to make sure you watch it in theatres only. The producer-director team has set up an anti-piracy software called ‘Republique’ to prevent any illegal downloads of the film.

Sajid said,

If anyone tries downloading it, not only will the files get corrupted but their IP address too will pop up and they will be prosecuted with all charges against them as per the anti-piracy law. We even have a call centre in Mumbai with 35 people on board monitoring the illegal downloading of the film. We’ve tested the process too and it worked wonders in five seconds.

Sajid Khan is one funny man and anyone fairly acquainted with Bollywood knows that. But I don’t think you’d want to mess with the advocates of anti-piracy just to save a hundred buck. [via]