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Super Star Effect? As Rajinikanth’s 2.0 Releases, Madras HC Orders To Block ‘Tamil Rockers’ And 12,000 Other Piracy Sites
Swarajya Staff
Nov 29, 2018, 06:02 PM | Updated 06:02 PM IST
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With the mega-budget Rajinikanth starrer 2.0 releasing today, the Madras High Court has directed 37 internet service providers to block over 12,000 piracy websites, with over 2,000 of them under Tamil Rockers. Lyca Productions, which headlines the film, had moved to court yesterday to save its box office, as reported by TimesNow.
The Tamil film industry has been facing issues of piracy for a long time now with pirated copies of films streamed on the websites the same day as the film release.
Lyca had asked the Madra HC to prevent the infamous Tamil Rockers from releasing the film online, with its counsel Vijayan Subramanian producing a list of 12,564 illegal sites for the court to block. Following which, Justice M. Sundar passed the order on Wednesday.
The producers and counsel appealed that when TamilRockers is blocked, it immediately creates a mirror website by changing the Uniform Resource Locator (URL), thus making the efforts worthless, said a PTI report.
On Tuesday, The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) had registered the complaint with the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, that the film wrongly depicts the mobile phone as harm to humanity.
Starring Superstar Rajinikanth, Akshay Kumar and Amy Jackson, 2.0 is directed by S. Shankar and is India’s costliest film with a budget of Rs 543 crores.
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