Dear John Doe

The year 2015 witnessed the Indian film industry becoming vigilant about preventing the piracy of their movies. This vigilance in Bollywood led to a couple of John Doe orders passed against the copyright infringers. It seems that this trend of obtaining John Doe orders is here to stay in 2016 as well as the Delhi High Court recently passed the order against potential copyright infringers in a civil suit filed by Balaji Motion Pictures Limited. The film producers were under the apprehension that their forthcoming release 'Kya Kool Hai Hum 3' would be made available online by various miscreants despite the work being protected under the Copyright Act, 1957. The film producers impleaded the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) as a defendant in the suit due to the fact that various cable operators are governed by TRAI and it is because of lack of implementation of the existing provisions of the Copyright laws by the Government Authority that such infringements are