Hyderabad, Nov. 25 -- The Hyderabad cybercrime police said that the main accused in the piracy case, Immadi Ravi, confessed to hosting the iBOMMA website through another company, under the domain name Njal.

At a press briefing on Tuesday, Hyderabad cybercrime additional commissioner of police Srinivas said that Ravi allegedly uploaded pirated films using a content management system and wrote scripts that pushed users toward gaming and betting websites such as 1win and 1xbet.

"iBOMMA is the centre of a major piracy racket operating across the Telugu states. Ravi earned up to Rs 20 crore through the operation," the officer said.

The 39-year-old from Visakhapatnam created the iBomma piracy website in 2019, using his background in web host...