Over nineteen websites owned yesteryear Tamil Rockers arrive at got been blocked yesteryear Google afterward 5 admins of these domains were taken into custody yesteryear Kerala constabulary for piracy. The websites include tamilrockers.in, tamilrockers.me, tamilrockers.is, tamilrockers.ac, tamilrockers.co, together with other like domain names.
The websites were used for uploading novel pirated South Indian movies together with members made equally much equally ₹1 crore over the concluding few months.
The constabulary had taken the 5 culprits into custody on Th afterward tracking an e-mail sent yesteryear an promotion society to i Akhil, which had reportedly mentioned having a connector amongst the piracy website.
“This advertizement society had sent a post service to Akhil, offering to let out ads on the website he was running. In that email, the society happened to cite that they arrive at got ties amongst Tamil Rockers. We got the data nearly Tamilrockers through this advertizement company,” said Anti-Piracy Cell SP B.K. Prasanthan Kani.
The Ad society was connected inwards a like representative dorsum inwards 2016.
The defendant — TNRockers possessor Prabhu, DVD Rockers possessor Johnson together with his accomplice Maria John, together with Karthi from Villupuram along amongst his accomplice, Suresh — were nabbed yesteryear the constabulary yesteryear tracing their banking concern accounts.
Their laptops, mobiles, together with such hardware were too confiscated.
“All the gang members were technically qualified. It fifty-fifty included M.Sc. together with B.Sc. holders inwards calculator science. They used to tape movies inwards pieces from diverse parts of the footing together with bring together it. We are trying to line to a greater extent than members of the gang including Karthi’s brothers,” Prasanthan told Deccan Chronicle.
