Delhi High Court has ordered some Indian ISP(Internet Service Provider) to block certain torrent and pirate websites that are known for hosting pirated content. The list that has been shared with ISPs includes 1337x.to, torrentz2.eu, bmovies.to and (and proxies), fmovies.to (and proxies), rarbg.com (and proxies), thepiratebay.org (and proxies), yts.am (and proxies), torrentz.ht, extrattorent.ag, and torrentmovies.co.

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Here’s what official court order states – the ISPs are serving as “inevitable actors in any transmission of infringing data over the internet, and their services are therefore used to infringe copyright.” Indian ISPs will have to fully comply with the court’s order which is more than 99 pages long. Delhi high court is now putting Indian ISPs on the position of the copyright infringing accessary, liable for violation of Section 51 of the Copyright Act. This injunction extends to the blockage of new proxies that will pop up, by merely having the plaintiffs (rightsholders) filing a detailed affidavit and submitting it to the ISPs for the imposition of new blockages.

The order does not stop at just ISPs; the official order assumes that most of the people who are involved in the act of piracy are not aware of the fact that the shared files are a product of piracy. To counter this, the order suggests a possibility of framing a new policy under which a warning will be issued to the viewers of infringing content. If a user gets these warnings and still chooses to continue their pirating actions, they should be then fined.

This won’t mean the end of pirate sites in India, you can still use VPNs and other proxies to access these sites but this order, when implemented by the ISPs, will come as a significant blow to all these torrent and pirate sites.