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ARTICLE · 29 NOVEMBER 2019

Online Movie Piracy: Combating ‘Rogue' And ‘Hydra-Headed Rogue' Websites

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Indian Cinema is as diverse as the land from which it evolves, witharound 1600 movies screened every year in different languages

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Indian Cinema is as diverse as the land from which it evolves, witharound 1600 movies screened every year in different languages. Since its inception in the late 1890s, Indian Cinema has travelled expeditiously and so has the new age technology, wherein online piracy co-exists and strangles the exclusive rights of the owners in cinematograph films. In order to facilitate streaming of pirated movies, Rogue and its hydra-headed websites are created, which attract people to watch unlicensed version of copyrighted movies for free. The creators of such websites hide behind the veil and infringe copyright in the cinematographic films by broadcasting innumerable movies on web to earn quick money and avoid royalties and taxes1. Such an act of duplicating and broadcasting movies on web without acquiring license from the owner is known as online movie piracy. However, Movie piracy is not restricted to online piracy and can also be committed in traditional ways

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