Carnatica's Rasika Forum

Apology

The concert by Shri N. Vijay Siva and Shri T.M.Krishna at Chembur fine Arts Society, Mumbai, on the 17th of October was a much looked forward to concert. I live in Bangalore and was unable to attend the same. In my eagerness to listen to the concert, I obtained an illegal recording of the concert from the Internet. When I shared this information with the concerned artistes congratulating them on their performance, they immediately wanted me to delete my copy and also reveal the name of the person who sourced the illegal recording to me over the internet. I did not wish to name my source but I confirmed that I deleted my copy. I subsequently received a notice concerning this from the legal counsel of Shri N. Vijay Siva and Shri T.M.Krishna.

I am extremely sorry that I have been party to such an illegal act of recording and sharing recordings of a concert without the permission of the artists and the organizers concerned. I apologise to the artistes Shri. N. Vijay Siva, Shri. T.M.Krishna, Kum Amritha Murali, Shri N.Manoj Siva, Shri B.S.Purushotham and the organizers of the concert Dr Prasad and Shri Prashant for this. I promise that I will not take part in such acts again.

S. Hariharan