<p>A smaller rival “faked” the website of Aiplex Software Pvt Ltd, a Bangaluru-based company that provides privacy protection solutions to entertainment houses, and lured away its clientele that include MTV, Colors, Fox Star (India), Eros International and Bollywoodlife.com, police said. <br /><br /></p>.<p>Abhishek Dhoreliya, MD and CEO of Markscan, is accused of roping in two software engineers to create a fake website of Aiplex and a fictitious e-mail ID in the name of its founder, Girish Kumar N. Police said they had arrested the two engineers — Ami Vivek, a native of Rajasthan, and Sushant M, from New Delhi — and were on the lookout for Dhoreliya. Markscan is based in Delhi. <br /><br />Aiplex and Markscan compete in the anti-piracy software business, providing content protection solutions to the entertainment industry (movies, TV shows), brands, e-books, games, software, etc. Aiplex has a larger clientele and specialises in protecting entertainment content posted on Google, Twitter and Facebook. Its anti-piracy solutions protect the content from being copied or downloaded. <br /><br />Sushant worked at Aiplex for about three years and quit recently to join Markscan. Police said Dhoreliya devised a plot to lure away Aiplex’s clientele. He worked with Sushant, Vivek and a few others and came up with the idea of creating the fake website and e-mail ID. Using the fake e-mail ID, the suspects contacted Aiplex’s clients, saying the company was closing down and asked them to switch to Markscan, police said. <br /><br />The plot worked. MTV, Colors, Fox Star (India), Eros International, Bollywoodlife.com and several other entertainment houses started tying up with Markscan. Aiplex saw a sudden drop in its business. A perplexed Girish Kumar contacted his clients to ask what was wrong. He was stupefied on learning about Markscan. He went to the jurisdictional Vijayanagar police station and filed a complaint. <br /><br />“During the investigation, we were able to get the Internet Protocol (IP) address and traced it to Delhi. We caught Vivek and Sushant who said they were acting at the behest of Dhoreliya,” said a senior police officer who is investigating the case. “Markscan, which saw Aiplex as a bigger rival, decided to hijack its clients.” <br /><br />The officer further said that it was a bigger racket and more people were involved in it. A police team is visiting Delhi to arrest other suspects, he added.</p>
<p>A smaller rival “faked” the website of Aiplex Software Pvt Ltd, a Bangaluru-based company that provides privacy protection solutions to entertainment houses, and lured away its clientele that include MTV, Colors, Fox Star (India), Eros International and Bollywoodlife.com, police said. <br /><br /></p>.<p>Abhishek Dhoreliya, MD and CEO of Markscan, is accused of roping in two software engineers to create a fake website of Aiplex and a fictitious e-mail ID in the name of its founder, Girish Kumar N. Police said they had arrested the two engineers — Ami Vivek, a native of Rajasthan, and Sushant M, from New Delhi — and were on the lookout for Dhoreliya. Markscan is based in Delhi. <br /><br />Aiplex and Markscan compete in the anti-piracy software business, providing content protection solutions to the entertainment industry (movies, TV shows), brands, e-books, games, software, etc. Aiplex has a larger clientele and specialises in protecting entertainment content posted on Google, Twitter and Facebook. Its anti-piracy solutions protect the content from being copied or downloaded. <br /><br />Sushant worked at Aiplex for about three years and quit recently to join Markscan. Police said Dhoreliya devised a plot to lure away Aiplex’s clientele. He worked with Sushant, Vivek and a few others and came up with the idea of creating the fake website and e-mail ID. Using the fake e-mail ID, the suspects contacted Aiplex’s clients, saying the company was closing down and asked them to switch to Markscan, police said. <br /><br />The plot worked. MTV, Colors, Fox Star (India), Eros International, Bollywoodlife.com and several other entertainment houses started tying up with Markscan. Aiplex saw a sudden drop in its business. A perplexed Girish Kumar contacted his clients to ask what was wrong. He was stupefied on learning about Markscan. He went to the jurisdictional Vijayanagar police station and filed a complaint. <br /><br />“During the investigation, we were able to get the Internet Protocol (IP) address and traced it to Delhi. We caught Vivek and Sushant who said they were acting at the behest of Dhoreliya,” said a senior police officer who is investigating the case. “Markscan, which saw Aiplex as a bigger rival, decided to hijack its clients.” <br /><br />The officer further said that it was a bigger racket and more people were involved in it. A police team is visiting Delhi to arrest other suspects, he added.</p>
