The anti-piracy cell of the Kerala Police has registered cases against 1,010 individuals/websites for illegally uploading or downloading Malayalam film Bachelor Party, reports The Hindu. The list also includes Tamil Rockers, a website that allows people to watch and download movies, online. The report mentions a press note issued by the anti-piracy cell, which states that 30,000 people who've seen/downloaded the movie online have been identified and IP addresses of 1,010 have been traced. The cell along with a private firm are trying to identify names and addresses using IP addresses, which cover a large number of locations in and outside the country including New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata, Rajasthan, Lucknow, Kapurthala, Tirunelveli, Coimbatore, Puducherry, Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Ernakulam, Kozhikode, Kottayam, and Palakkad, and the U.S., the U.K., the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Ireland, the Philippines, China, South Africa, Uganda, Algeria, Botswana, Kazakhstan, and Pakistan. The action was initiated after Sajithan, owner of the firm Movie Channel, which has the DVD, mobile and internet rights of the movie registered a complaint with the anti-piracy cell against Tamil Rockers and users behind 16 IP addresses, who had allegedly uploaded he film illegally. The report also adds that legal action against several individuals was initiated in July, laptops were seized in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, cases were registered with 100 people being arrested, earlier this year. Right to take legal action on the basis of IP Addresses? We're not sure how the investigation agencies are identifying individuals through IP addresses, and raids, without violating…
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