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Message: <blockquote data-quote="warwickuni" data-source="post: 27179027" data-attributes="member: 101444">English songs duplication was done only in very few places in Colombo around Wellawatta, Bamba. Torana was the pioneer in copying of English songs. They started in Wellawatta (house) and later came to Bamba and this shop was there till road widening and demolishing . This was right in the junction where Bullers Rd and Gall Rd intersect on sea side.Another very famous place was Jini again at Galle Rd Bam. But their main business was hiring VHS, Beta Video Cassets and Audio cassets. Torana always copied English songs and their collection was good so that what you want was available to copy. this is hard to present day gen as latest songs are available on internet as soon as they were released. This was not the case till 90s.Later Torana even copied CDs and their small outlet at MC did it for (Rs 200?). This is in 90s but they had their first album (Sinhala) which was Clarens 16. which got sold in record time! By this time Torana stopped copying and only sold English CDs (nor originals , they were also pirated copies came mainly from singapore)very much later Torana became a champion against pirate-copying and instituted actions against people who copy their copyrighted audio-visual products?Sound familiar !</blockquote>

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