Watch out if you are a film lover and Watch malayalam movies  online. In a major crackdown on online film piracy, the Anti Piracy Cell of Kerala Police has registered cases against more than 1,000 persons for illegally uploading or downloading / viewing the movie ‘Bachelor Party’ on Internet. More than 30,000 people are estimated to have seen the movie on the net and 1,010 IP addresses have been identified.Efforts are on to identify the remaining.The CD of the film was released by the company on August nineteen, 2012 and within 2 days the film was accessible on world wide web. The investigation by the ACP unconcealed that the film was viewed by individuals based mostly out of the US, UK, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Ireland, Philippines, China, South Africa, Uganda, Algeria, Botswana, Kazakhstan, and Asian country. In India, the locations were national capital, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata, Lucknow, Kapurthala, Tirunelveli, Coimbatore and in Kerala, from Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Ernakulam, Kozhikode, Kottayam, and Palakkad.

The kerala cyber cell crack downed the illegal up loaders and viewers with the help of software called ‘Agent Jadoo’. However the public is outraged by the action took by the police. Many have the opinion that this is absurd.”This is absolutely ridiculous. If my friend sent me a link to a movie and if I clicked to see what’s in that link, technically I will also become a culprit” said a movie buff

Earlier this year, the cops had ar rested a student from Thrissur for uploading a Malayalam film. legal action was also initiated against three websites for uploading and sharing pirated versions of Malayalam movies on their website. The Cell had created a listing of internet sites that offer pirated versions of latest Malayalam films on-line

YouTube, the most important video database within the world nowdaysYouTube currently exceeds a pair of billion views on a daily basis and twenty four hours of video uploaded each minute. i am positive lots of you guys need to download some YouTube videos. now the matter comes: Is it legal or not to download YouTube video? Is it legal to upload videos to YouTube?Its illegal to uplod and download Films if it violotes Copyright Act.

How am I breaking the YouTube Terms of Service?

When you use any web site you’re unremarkably creating use of the content or services under Terms and Conditions published on the site – though you never scan those conditions of use. For YouTube the necessary statements ar presently paragraphs 4C and 5B (September 2011):

- You agree not to access Content through any technology or means apart from the video playback pages of the Service itself, the Embeddable Player, or other explicitly authorized means YouTube may designate.

- You shall not transfer any Content unless you see a “download” or similar link displayed by YouTube on the Service for that Content. You shall not copy, reproduce, create accessible on-line or electronically transmit, publish, adapt, distribute, transmit, broadcast, display, sell, license, or otherwise exploit any Content for the other functions while not the previous written consent of YouTube or the several licensors of the Content.

Indian Copyright Act

The Government of Republic of India brought into effect the Copyright Act, 1957. The law was primarily enacted to produce protection to the copyright of the authors and creators of original literary, dramatic, inventive and cinematographic work. This Act has been the backbone for shielding copyrights of the several rights holders since 1957. but with the passage of your time, it clearly became evident that the provisions of the Copyright Act alone weren’t adequate to expeditiously and effectively defend copyright and alternative property rights of the homeowners.The Indian Copyright Act, 1957 didn’t agitate electronic format since that wasn’t the well-liked format at the time of the passing of such legislation. but with magnified usage of the electronic format, the Copyright (Amendment) Bill, 2010 has created the Copyright Act cowl every kind of activities within the electronic format or electronic medium. Thus, all activities done victimisation computers, laptop systems, laptop networks, laptop resources and communication devices, as additionally knowledge and data within the electronic type would even be subject to the extent of the pertinence of the Copyright Act.

The infringement happens once a proprietary work is reproduced, distributed, performed, publically displayed, or created into a spinoff work without the permission of the copyright owner.

a) Civil remedies for infringement

A copyright owner will take legal action against a person WHO infringes the copyright in the work. The copyright owner is entitled to remedies by means of injunctions, damages and accounts.The District Court involved has the jurisdiction in civil suits relating to infringement.

b) Copyright infringement: Criminal offence below the copyright law

Any person WHO wittingly infringes or abets the infringement of the copyright in any work commits criminal offence below Section sixty three of the Copyright Act.

The minimum punishment for infringement of copyright is imprisonment for 6 months with the minimum fine of Rs. 50,000/-. in the case of a second and subsequent conviction the minimum punishment is imprisonment for one year and fine of Rs. one lakh.Any officer, not below the rank of a sub inspector, may, if he’s glad that an offence in respect of the infringement of copyright in any work has been, is being, or is probably going to be committed, seize while not warrant, all copies of the work and every one plates used for the aim of constructing infringing copies of the work, where found, and every one copies and plates therefore taken shall, as soon as practicable be produced before a magistrate.

 While some people support ‘Anti-Piracy’ move, they also have the opinion that, why no action is taken when film makers copy movies from foriegn languages.