Quaid-e-Azam Zindabad filmmaker Nabeel Qureshi has sent Rs500 million legal notice to Daraz.pk to compensate financial damages for illegally selling pirated copies of the film on online marketplaces.
The legal notice has demanded online shopping portal, Daraz.pk, to stop selling the film on the online marketplace within 24 hours and terminate the accounts of illegal sellers.
Nabeel Qureshi shared the legal notice sent to Diraz.pk on his Twitter handle and wrote, “We have served a legal notice to http://Daraz.pk for selling our film #quaideazamzindabad pirated version on their website illegally and damaging the film business while its playing in Cinemas across pakistan & abroad, #boycottdaraz we believe in our justice system.”
The legal notice sent to Daraz stated that the Eid-ul-Adha release of the film was restricted to theatres only and all the rights to its sale were held by Filmwala Productions, but your website has many accounts of the film. continues to be illegally sold while an account called Digital Express has sold pirated versions of the film in large numbers.
The legal notice sought Daraz to stop the illegal sale of the film on its website within 24 hours and to pay damages of Rs500 million to Filmwala Productions for harming the business of the film by permanently terminating the accounts involved in it. Otherwise strict legal action will be taken.