Taiwan's latest box office hit, Monga, has lost an estimated NT$80 million (US$2.5 million) as a result of piracy, the director of the gangster film said, urging the government to take action. 'I am definitely angry to learn that people are stealing the film, ' Doze Niu was quoted as saying in the Chinese-language Apply Daily, Friday. 'But I have been thinking about what I should do to stop the piracy.' Niu said that people should view the film at movie theaters, as Monga has certain effects that cannot be experienced on a computer screen. On Feb. 21, the director angrily responded to a message left by a local Internet user on the social Web site Plurk minutes after the user said he had watched Monga in his bedroom, the report said. The Chinese online video site, PPS.tv, had attracted 110,000 viewers of the pirated version of the film as of Thursday night, the paper reported. The film can also be viewed for free on another Chinese Web site, Tudou.com, it said. Pirated VCDs of the movie are also available at Taiwan's night markets at half the price of movie tickets, the report stated. Shih Show-yi, a deputy officer on a police task force that is responsible for protecting intellectual property rights, was quoted in the report as saying that the task force had busted 13 piracy cases at local night markets during the Lunar New Year holiday. The task force has also found five download links on a local social Web site, the report said. 