On 1 September 2010, a team of enforcement officers, lead by Tn Mohd Hafix Emran from the Ministry of Domestic Trade, Cooperative and Consumerism (MDTCC), Selangor branch raided and seized audio-visual equipments from an entertainment outlet located in Klang following a complaint from MACP.

During the raid, songs under MACP’s repertoire such as ‘Kerana’ , ‘Andainya Aku Pergi Dulu’ popular numbers by Alleycats and ‘Tong Hua’ by Michael Wong were identified to be publicly performed at the pub which did not have a MACP licence.

MACP has also lodged another complaint, this time with the MTDCC Kuala Lumpur branch against a karaoke lounge in Medan Imbi, Kuala Lumpur for playing music in public without a MACP licence. The karaoke lounge had ignored repeated warnings by MACP since 2006 and was raided by 20 enforcement officers from MTDCC and MACP lead by Encik Mohd Fahmie Rusli on 21st September 2010. During the raid, karaoke devices together with a server were seized from the outlet. The seized server purportedly contained more than 30,000 songs all of which were suspected to be pirated copies.

Under section 41(3) of Copyright Act 1987, “any person who caused a musical work to be performed in public without the copyright owner’s consent shall be guilty of an offence”. The penalty of each offence under the Act involves fines ranging from a minimum RM 10,000 to RM 50,000 and up to 5 years’ imprisonment per offence.