Rainbow Centre, Karachi

The Rainbow Centre is a shopping center in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Rainbow Centre is located adjacent to the Empress Market. It is famous as the hub of video entertainment in Pakistan and the country's video piracy industry. Located in the area of Saddar, it is reported to be the largest CD and DVD market in Pakistan.[1][2]

In 2000, it was estimated that more than half of the 350–400 shops housed in the Rainbow Centre were exclusively engaged in video piracy.[3][4]

In addition to CDs, the centre makes DVDs of Urdu and DVDs Blu-Rays of English movies, dramas, TV serials, cartoons, anime, sitcoms, and DVDs of PC Computer games and Applications and DVD + Blu-rays of Xbox / PlayStation Console Games and so on.

  1. ^ "Buying porn CDs, DVDs as easy as purchasing apple in Karachi". Thaindian.com website. 15 April 2010. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
  2. ^ Five shops gutted in Rainbow Centre The News International (newspaper), Published 5 April 2014, retrieved 6 April 2018
  3. ^ "Piracy: Present copyright law is weak and needs to be strengthened". Pakistan & Gulf Economist (business magazine). 13–26 March 2000. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
  4. ^ All the world's a stage... Dawn (newspaper), Published 28 November 2010, retrieved 6 April 2018