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Dishoom's cookbook has been subject to a lockdown piracy attack, with illegal copies being circulated via WhatsApp and social media.
PDFs of Dishoom: From Bombay with Love (Bloomsbury), first published last September, have been illegally duplicated, with some copies for sale on eBay.
The Indian restaurant was made aware of the piracy when friends and relatives of the founders began alerting them to a fraudulent copy "doing the rounds on WhatsApp".
A spokes person from Bloomsbury said: "At Bloomsbury we take copyright infringement extremely seriously. We have been in close touch with Dishoom about the piracy since we first became aware of it and have taken all the steps we can to address it. We have contacted and issued takedown notices to the relevant platforms and we conduct our own sweeps for piracy sites."
Members of the public have come out in support of the restaurant chain, and have continued to alert Dishoom via social media, sending messages containing links to posts offering the book for free. The chain believes PDFs have been sent "far and wide at this point".
Shamil Thakrar, co-founder of the Dishoom restaurants, told The Bookseller: "This act of piracy does hit a touch harder during these difficult times, when restaurants have no people in them. We really hope that many of those who have, or do subsequently, come across this pirated PDF will only be encouraged to purchase the real thing."
On Twitter, the chain asked those who had received an illegal copy to buy the book, or to donate to Hospitality Action, while recognising that "not everyone is in a position to purchase the cookery book".
Thakrar said: "More than anything, we are slightly sad that something we put so much love, thought and research into has been pirated. It’s also good that we might be able to raise awareness and help people to spread the word that book piracy is damaging to all the authors, creatives and publishers involved."
"If readers do come across a pirated PDF of our book, or indeed of any other, we sincerely hope they will shun the PDFs and help to raise awareness of the problem."
Last year, a group of leading authors including Malorie Blackman, Philip Pullman, Kazuo Ishiguro and Hilary Mantel wrote an open letter to the then business secretary, warning that piracy was becoming increasingly prevalent.