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NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police has cracked down on TV signal piracy in Lucknow by arresting the alleged mastermind of Asif Siddiqui following a complaint lodged by Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL).
After carrying out a detailed initial investigation, the police raided premises in Kalyanpur area of Lucknow on 22 May and found illegal tapping and unauthorised uploading of live content of all popular channels, including Zee TV, Star Plus, Colors, and Sony Entertainment Television (SET), on pirated websites.
During the raid, more than two dozen workers were caught red-handed, digitally stealing live feed of pay channels using more than 50 DTH and cable TV set-top boxes (STBs).
They were extracting TV feeds, removing watermarks and uploading them on their sites such as Desitvforum.net that are being accessed by millions of viewers abroad in USA, Canada, Europe, UK and Netherlands, ZEEL said. Thousands of dollars are being illegally earned by these pirates causing huge amount of losses to the broadcasters.
According to open-source web-based analytics, this particular group has more than one million daily viewers and has been earning thousands of dollars every day. The targeted customers were mainly from US, Canada and Europe.
In addition, there has also been rampant violation of foreign exchange regulations and money laundering, ZEEL said.
Apart from arresting Siddiqui, the Delhi Police also seized his computers and other accessories used in carrying out the piracy/signal theft.
Investigations in the matter are continuing and more such raids and arrests are likely to follow based on the interrogation of the accused.
ZEEL had lodged an FIR in Chanakyapuri police station for unauthorised streaming of the episodes of various Zee channel programmes within 10 to 12 minutes of their actual broadcast.
In addition to tapping and stealing live feed of various channels from DTH and cable STBs, the accused persons within 10-12 minutes were recording video, editing identifiable information, adding their logo and uploading it to several servers simultaneously.
This is the first occasion when an internet-pirate has been caught red-handed in India. Normally identifying individual persons and their physical locations behind their pirated sites is very difficult.
It took more than a year of investigation and digital evidence gathering by ZEE’s in-house IT security team to collect irrefutable evidence to identify humans behind the mask of these websites, which were hosted from Sweden.
Piracy, stealing of signals and their unauthorised transmission & streaming on web has been a major stumbling block in revenue monetisation.
According to ZEEL, in order to effectively deal with the menace copyright infringement should be made “non-bailable”.
It further said that signal theft should be regarded as theft of “property” as contemplated under section 379 of IPC.
“The need of the hour is to review these laws and introduce more stringent provisions to deal with such offences so that these provisions may act as an effective deterrent,” the company said.
Delhi Police cracks down on TV signal piracy | TelevisionPost.com
After carrying out a detailed initial investigation, the police raided premises in Kalyanpur area of Lucknow on 22 May and found illegal tapping and unauthorised uploading of live content of all popular channels, including Zee TV, Star Plus, Colors, and Sony Entertainment Television (SET), on pirated websites.
During the raid, more than two dozen workers were caught red-handed, digitally stealing live feed of pay channels using more than 50 DTH and cable TV set-top boxes (STBs).
They were extracting TV feeds, removing watermarks and uploading them on their sites such as Desitvforum.net that are being accessed by millions of viewers abroad in USA, Canada, Europe, UK and Netherlands, ZEEL said. Thousands of dollars are being illegally earned by these pirates causing huge amount of losses to the broadcasters.
According to open-source web-based analytics, this particular group has more than one million daily viewers and has been earning thousands of dollars every day. The targeted customers were mainly from US, Canada and Europe.
In addition, there has also been rampant violation of foreign exchange regulations and money laundering, ZEEL said.
Apart from arresting Siddiqui, the Delhi Police also seized his computers and other accessories used in carrying out the piracy/signal theft.
Investigations in the matter are continuing and more such raids and arrests are likely to follow based on the interrogation of the accused.
ZEEL had lodged an FIR in Chanakyapuri police station for unauthorised streaming of the episodes of various Zee channel programmes within 10 to 12 minutes of their actual broadcast.
In addition to tapping and stealing live feed of various channels from DTH and cable STBs, the accused persons within 10-12 minutes were recording video, editing identifiable information, adding their logo and uploading it to several servers simultaneously.
This is the first occasion when an internet-pirate has been caught red-handed in India. Normally identifying individual persons and their physical locations behind their pirated sites is very difficult.
It took more than a year of investigation and digital evidence gathering by ZEE’s in-house IT security team to collect irrefutable evidence to identify humans behind the mask of these websites, which were hosted from Sweden.
Piracy, stealing of signals and their unauthorised transmission & streaming on web has been a major stumbling block in revenue monetisation.
According to ZEEL, in order to effectively deal with the menace copyright infringement should be made “non-bailable”.
It further said that signal theft should be regarded as theft of “property” as contemplated under section 379 of IPC.
“The need of the hour is to review these laws and introduce more stringent provisions to deal with such offences so that these provisions may act as an effective deterrent,” the company said.
Delhi Police cracks down on TV signal piracy | TelevisionPost.com
