Downloading movies from torrents? You might land up in jail
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Downloading movie or your favorite series via torrent is very much frequent among the people. Half of the population of the nation is familiar to this site. People don’t prefer paying for ticket or paying for subscription, but used to getting the material from torrent for free. But you know this is indirectly a anti-national step taken you, according to a report Bollywood loses $2.7 billion due to piracy every year. The recent news is episode of Game Of Thrones has been leaked and has caused major loss to the maker interns of content and profit.
Technically downloading file from torrent for yourself doesn’t cause any problem to you. But if you are distributing any pirated content just like torrent is illegal according to the law. When someone is about to download some file from torrent, the distributor of the torrent might be in trouble. A warning notification appears when the government is notified about the leak from the owners/makers of the content‘,
According to judicial terms viewing’, ‘downloading’, ‘exhibiting’ or ‘duplicating’ ‘an illicit copy of content under this URL’ is considered as a punishable crime according to Sections 63, 63-A, 65 and 65-A of the Copyright Act of 1957. According to the act copying and distributing the content is bigger offense than viewing it. The content owner can file a complaint and drag the person to the court who has copied or distributed the content without proper permission from the content owner. The punishment for this piracy crime is very strict, leaking and viewing the content by the banned host can cause you imprisonment for 3 years and fine of 3 lakh rupees.
So don’t be stingy from next time because if try to you save 200 from movie ticket or 500 from channel subscription and download the file from torrent, it can lead you in deep trouble and cost you far more than this small amounts.
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