directed India’s government to issue a notification calling upon the various Internet service providers to block access to the websites in India.
In India, websites are regularly blocked on the basis of copyright infringement using Section 69A of the Information and Technology Act 2000 , Information Technology Rules 2009 and civil procedure rules, the IFPI tells“We welcome this decision and the strong message it sends to operators of stream ripping sites, wherever they may be based, that we are prepared to take the appropriate action against them,” “Given that it’s the first time a website blocking order has been granted against stream...
Beyond India, the recording industry has stepped up efforts to crack down on stream-ripping websites. Courts and authorities in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Denmark, Ecuador, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Peru, Russia and Spain have all issued decisions over the last few years ordering service providers to block customers’ access to such websites, the IFPI says.U.S. music companies have also battled stream-rippers, who are often based outside the country.
Kurbanov’s piracy operation drew more than 300 million global users to the sites from October 2017 to September 2018 alone, the court said. As the streaming market has grown globally, the IFPI has also helped coordinate court and police actions to shut down sites peddling fake streams in major recording markets like Brazil In France, the fifth-largest music market, a study by a French government organization found that one billion streams — or between 1% to 3% of all streams in the market — were fraudulent in 2021.