There was a study conducted by Evisional and Motion Pictures Association (MPA) which concluded that the online piracy for movie content is very significant in India.Through advancement of technology and broadband connection almost in all households the method of piracy has changed from physical reproduction and distribution to online distribution. Piracy means unauthorised reproduction, importing or reproduction of the whole or any part of work protected by copyright. Online piracy is the term to elucidate the illegal act of duplication of licensed or copyright material from internet. There are three main piracy context- music, movie and software. Are these downloads authorised? Is there any law which we are infringing? In the following blog post we shall dwell into all these questions and understand the law relating to such unauthorised downloads. This brings us to the major issue which has been on a rise that is ‘Online piracy’.Īlmost all of us are guilty of downloading a latest movie or any latest episode of say Game of Thrones from torrent or other similar websites. The movie was apparently uploaded on seven sites before its release. blocked the pirated version of the movie and arrested a man for illegally uploading the movie on his site. The cyber cell of Mumbai Police on receiving the complaint from the deputy general manager (legal) of the Phantom Films Pvt Ltd. In the recent past we saw rampant violation of the copyright policy of the movie ‘Udta Punjab’ when it was distributed via internet before its actual release.
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