Jisha Surya
Express News Service
First Published : 01 May 2011
THIRUVANATHAPURAM: The officals of the Hi-Tech Cell of the Kerala Police were quick to act when complaints were filed against piracy sites featuring new releases such as ‘Urumi’, ‘August 15’ and ‘Christian Brothers’. The Cell served notices on more than eight sites. Majority of the sites have removed the links of new releases from the sites. However, the file-sharing site Torrent still poses a headache to the Hi-Tech Cell officials. Most of the new releases are still available in Torrent sites. As Torrent works on peer-to-peer file-sharing, it is difficult to crackdown the network.
The practical difficulties in checking the menace is troubling the Hi-Tech Cell authorities, who did much to stop live streaming of illegal movies in other sites such as bharatmovies.com, focuskeralam.com and go8pm.com. The links of new releases were found to have removed from the site immediately after Hi-Tech Cell served notices on these sites.
“There is no specific location and the files are saved piece by piece in various servers. In a peer-to-peer network, each computer will act as both a client and a server. Each computer is capable of both sending and receiving data. As the number of peers increase, the downloading speed too will be higher,” explained a Hi-Tech Cell official on how Torrent works.
The Hi-Tech Cell official admitted that it was impossible for them to crack the network.
The Hi-Tech Cell was fast to respond to the complaint of Producer’s Association and producers of the film ‘Urumi’ when they noticed the availability of new releases in a number of sites.
But the presence of Torrent is causing much trouble to movie world. Torrent poses serious threat to movie, music and software industry worldwide.
Indian law says that culprits could be booked under Copyright Act and Information Technology Act 2008 in case of copyright infringement. Uploading, downloading and distribution of unauthorised data are punishable under the Act.
The culprits will have to face imprisonment of two years and will have to pay up to Rs 2 lakh as fine.
They are also liable to give compensation up to Rs 1 crore. However, with the presence of Torrent, these laws become toothless.
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