anti piracy strikes back -Bachelor Party on the Net lands many in police net

Faun

Wahahaha~!
Staff member
Someone show the guys some Stanley Kubrick. They are wasting their time on other movies.
 

shaurya.malik88

Broken In
In what is billed as a first-of-its-kind initiative in the country, the anti-piracy cell of the Kerala Police has registered cases against 1,010 persons for illegally uploading or downloading on the Internet the Malayalam movie Bachelor Party.

This includes a Keralite engineering student based in Vaashi, Navi Mumbai, and the Coimbatore-based website Tamil Rockers, a press note issued here on Saturday by the anti-piracy cell said.

Over the last 10 days, 30,000 persons were found to have seen Bachelor Party illegally on the Net. The IP addresses of 1,010 persons have already been identified. The anti-piracy cell, the hi-tech cell, and Jadoo Tech Private Solutions — a Kochi-based private firm which did the cyber patrolling for the police — have initiated steps to collect the names and addresses of the persons whose IP addresses have been traced.

An investigation by the anti-piracy cell revealed that the illegal viewing of the film was done by persons based in the U.S., the U.K., the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Ireland, the Philippines, China, South Africa, Uganda, Algeria, Botswana, Kazakhstan, and Pakistan. Within the country, the illegal viewings were reported from New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata, Rajasthan, Lucknow, Kapurthala, Tirunelveli, Coimbatore, Puducherry, Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Ernakulam, Kozhikode, Kottayam, and Palakkad.

The CD/DVD/mobile phone/Internet/memory card rights for Bachelor Party were secured by Sajithan, who owns the Thrissur-based firm Movie Channel. The CDs of the movie were brought out by this company on August 19, 2012. Within two days, Mr. Sajithan submitted a complaint to the anti-piracy cell against the site Tamil Rockers and against 16 IP addresses from where the film had been illegally uploaded to the Net. The subsequent investigation was carried out by a team of police officials headed by the anti-piracy nodal officer and Inspector General of Police B. Sandhya.

A month ago, the CDs of the films Ordinary and Grand Master released by the same company were illegally seen on the Net by 30 lakh and 12 lakh persons respectively, the press note said. In July this year, the anti-piracy cell arrested Abhilash from Thrissur while he was illegally uploading the film Snehaveedu on the Net. Legal action was also initiated against 30 persons working for social sites that illegally hosted Malayalam movies. About 15 laptops were also seized from different locations in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka.

Investigation by the anti-piracy cell of the Kerala police is currently on in 10 cases of Internet misuse. About 70 cases of copyright infringement have been registered in Kerala and outside and about 100 persons have been arrested in this connection.

The illegal sharing of Bachelor Party on the Net comes at a time when the arrest of 15 persons in April for pirating movies from theatres and the consequent non-availability of pirated CDs had led to a substantial increase in the government’s income from theatres, the press note added.



The Hindu : States / Kerala : <i>Bachelor Party</i> on the Net lands many in police net
Legal Action Against 30,000 People who Watched ‘Bachelor Party’ on YouTube - Tecknews.in

A strong law should be passed against CD piracy so that there is no repetition of it in future.
 

ashintomson

Journeyman
i think its also a part of promotion of agent jadoo more companies will sing up with them and they will make more money . can they track who downloaded the movie from file hosting servers like mediafire,jumbofiles etc ?
p.s i am from kerala :p
 

Hrishi

******************
Jadoo Tech Private Solutions, lolz. :p uhahaha
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Stop the piracy , do w/ever you like but for god sake please boost the internet speed. Lagging ages behind the world.

Its not so easy to implement this in India. Almost every1 gets into pir@cy some way or the other. They can't file complains against every1. THe population is quite big for that purpose.
 

NoasArcAngel

Wise Old Owl
how are they supposed identify all 30000? how are they going to differentiate between persons having dynamic ip and persons having static ip's? how would they find people behind the proxies? unless they announce HOW are they zeroing on everyone of those 30k people they are potentially vulnerable to lawsuits...

thats very easy, everytime your dynamic ip changes the isp keeps a log of it.

ohh gawd i am so scared, i downloaded so many movies off the internet. IS the police going to come to my house?
 

Baker

Albicelestes
any one knows... on what section they will put charge against people who wathed online or downloaded .....
 

sumonpathak

knocking on heavens door
Sec 51 says nothing about watching or viewing :)
[h=1]The Copyright Act, 1957[/h]

[h=2]51. When copyright infringed -[/h]
Copyright in a work shall be deemed to be infringed -

(a) When any person, without a licence granted by the owner of the Copyright or the Registrar of Copyrights under this Act or in contravention of the conditions of a licence so granted or of any conditions imposed by a competent authority under this Act-

(i) Does anything, the exclusive right to do which is by this Act conferred upon the owner of the copyright, or

(ii) [(Note: Subs. by Act 38 of 1994, S.16(1) (w.e.f. a date to be notified)) permits for profit any place to be used for the communication of the work to the public where such communication constitutes an infringement of the copyright in the work, unless he was not aware and had no reasonable ground for believing that such communication to the public would be an infringement of copyright, or]

(b) When any person -

(i) Make for sale on hire, or sells or lets for hire, or by way of trade displays or offers for sale or hire, or

(ii) Distributes either for the purposes of trade or to such an extent as to affect prejudicially the owner of the copyright, or

(iii) By way of trade exhibits in public, or

(iv) Imports (Omitted by Act 65 of 1984, S.3 (w.e.f. 8-10-1984)) into
India, any infringing copies of the work:
[(Note: Subs. by Act 38 of 1994, S.16(2) (w.e.f. a date to be notified)) Provided that nothing in such clause (iv) shall apply to the import of one copy of any work for the private and domestic use of the importer.]

Explanation – For the purposes of this section, the reproduction of a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work in the form of a cinematograph film shall be deemed to be an "infringing copy".

so downloader and watchers are protected prima facie...
 

NoasArcAngel

Wise Old Owl
that was a joke, if they traced my ip all they would get is a location in the british columbia :p



Section 51, copyright act 1957 also i guess IT law 2001

ohh yeah **** also add to that 62 and 63. :D i am watching a pirated movie, and no i cant tell you the name. Maybe it begins with "R" and stars emraan hashmi. But then again i may not be.... :p
 

Nanducob

Wise Old Owl
I dont download any movies via torrent,but i wish him(producer)good luck in stopping piracy afterall its his hard earned cash.i guess he was a total noob in the torrent scene coz he thinks that the only movie thatve pirated via torrent is his damn movie.The movie was very good,but i think he should give money to those who downloaded since theyve wasted their valuable bandwidth,time and some effort.
We also have freaks like him in our place who will ban those sunfilms in cars cause they think that it creates immoral traffic.I guess their next plan is to make us live in glass houses and chastity belts for woman because they also prevents immoral traffic!
Oh and i thank the govt for the invasion of our privacy and i dont really want to go to jail,because it would be a real shame for me if i were to sent to jail for downloading this darn movie.
 
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