Call for justice: Malaysian band Floor 88’s disappointment over the leak of their ‘Bas Terakhir Malam Raya’ movie on YouTube.
Compiled by AUSTIN CAMOENS, C. ARUNO and R. ARAVINTHAN
LOCAL band Floor 88 has lodged a police report against the owner of a YouTube channel for allegedly illegally uploading the full footage of the film Bas Terakhir Malam Raya made by its production company Floor 88 Holdings.
Berita Harian reported the group’s keyboardist Eric Fuzi as saying that the irresponsible action of YouTube channel owner caused the company – which had collaborated with Silentkaiju Studio and Motion Studio to make the movie – to allegedly suffer a loss of RM2.6mil.
“The police report was made following the leak of the film on Telegram, TikTok and YouTube while the film was still being broadcast on the Astro First channel.
“This issue started when a link to the movie was spread on the Telegram and TikTok apps. When we found out, we made a report and the link was taken down.
“However, this one channel took quite a long time, about six days, to take the link down.
“We found out that during that period, the free-to-air film had a total of 168,000 views,” he said.
Eric, who is also the co-director of the film, went on to say that the film could have been leaked by “insiders”.
> A man wanted by the police in connection with the theft of pilgrims’ bags at Masjid Muhammadi was arrested while hiding in a bush near Kampung Sungai Keladi, Kota Baru.
According to Harian Metro, the 39-year-old suspect, who had been on the run since April 26, is believed to have robbed a government pensioner near Sungai Bidor here before his arrest at 3pm on Tuesday.
Kota Baru OCPD, Asst Comm Mohd Rosdi Daud, said the suspect robbed a 68-year-old victim at 11.40am while the elderly man was fishing, then fled in the victim’s car.
“As soon as a report was made, the Criminal Investigation Department team of the Kelantan police contingent headquarters and Kota Baru police station managed to arrest the suspect who was hiding in a bush area about 1km from the scene,” he said.
ACP Mohd Rosdi also said the suspect tested positive for methamphetamine.
“Further investigation found that he was also wanted by the police over the theft of a worshipper’s bag at the mosque on April 26,” he said.
● The above article is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with this ' >'sign, it denotes a separate news item.
