Cases against 1,010 for illegally watching Malayalam film Bachelor Party on net

Cases against 1,010 for illegally watching Malayalam film Bachelor Party on net

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Thiruvananthapuram, Sept 9: The anti-piracy cell of Kerala Police has registered cases against 1,010 persons for illegally uploading or downloading the Malayalam film Bachelor Party on the internet.

 

Cases have been registered against a Keralite engineering student based in Vashi, Navi Mumbai, and a Coimbatore-based website named Tamil rockers, says a police press note.

Over the last 10 days, 30,000 persons were found to have seen Bachelor Party illegally on the Net, the press release says.

The IP addresses of 1,010 persons have already been identified, reports The Hindu.

 

 

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.

A probe 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.

Inside India, 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, says the police release.

 

The CD/DVD/mobile phone/Internet/memory card rights for Bachelor Party were secured by one Sajithan, who owns the Thrissur-based firm Movie Channel.

The CDs of the movie were brought out by this company on August 19

Within two days,  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.

A probe 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.