Telangana will soon become the first state in India to have a mechanism to crackdown on the one billion dollar video piracy market, reports CNBC-TV18.

Shops like these, which rent and sell pirated films, music and even software and games may no longer be buzzing with activity but that's only because piracy has evolved with the technology.

This has pushed the Telugu film industry, which lost over Rs 380 crore in 2015 alone due to piracy, into a corner and the industry is hitting back, with the help of the Telangana government.

That's where the Telangana intellectual property crime unit or TIPCU comes in. The unit comprises representatives from the police's cybercrime division, the state IT ministry, internet service providers, the Telugu film industry, legal experts, and financial experts and will go after sites that host pirated content.

"We basically want to go behind websites and cam cording syndicates which are the biggest threats to producers and their content," says Raj Kumar Akela, Chairman - anti-video piracy cell, Telugu film chamber of commerce.

The unit has its work cut out for it.

Where just the Telugu film industry is concerned, there are 146 piracy websites, 43 torrent sites, 32 streaming sites, 47 file-sharing sites and 24 forums.

The content on the 146 websites alone is valued at Rs 5,667 crore and these sites see 5.78 million unique visitors every day. That's not all. These websites together make Rs 93 lakh per day in advertising revenues alone.

To make matters worse, 90 percent of these websites are based outside India. Also, only the department of telecom has the right to block websites which means the IT Act itself needs to be amended, to give the unit a chance.

"We are preparing a case to convince central government to decentralize it act because we are agile with our software. We are able to identify the pirated websites within an hour," says Jayesh Ranjan, Telangana IT Secretary.

The unit's success will mean that India will no longer rank number 5 when it comes to piracy. But even while it waits and hopes to get more teeth, it is not shying away from yelling: full steam ahead.