Tamil Rockers

Tamil Rockers is a torrent website which facilitates the illegal distribution of copyrighted material, including television shows, movies, music and videos.[1] The site allows visitors to search for and download copyrighted material with the help of magnet links and torrent files, which facilitate peer-to-peer file sharing. In India, ISPs have been ordered to block access to the website.[2][3][4][5] The website continues operation by switching to a series of new web addresses.[6] Aside from its traditional list of pirate sites, apps, and hosting providers, the movie industry group MPAA now lists Tamil Rockers as one of the notorious markets.[7][8]

Tamil Rockers
Type of site
Torrent index, magnet links provider, Peer-to-peer
Available inEnglish
RevenueAdvertisements
RegistrationOptional
Launched2011 (2011)
Current statusOffline
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Tamil Rockers is the tenth most popular torrent site in TorrentFreak's Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2020 list.[9]

History

Tamil Rockers was a bootleg recording network which was founded in 2011 and later became a public torrent website that links to pirated copies of Indian films in addition to Hollywood movies dubbed into regional languages along with the original English audio.

On March 14, 2018, three men said to be behind the site were arrested. One of the men was believed to be the site administrator.[10] On 23 May 2019, more members of Tamil Rockers were arrested in Coimbatore.[11]

On October 19, 2020, the site went offline, it is speculated that Amazon have intervened by issuing several DMCA takedown notices but the site is expected to comeback online, since this is not first time it was suspended or domain blocked.[12]

References
  1. Prabhakar, Siddharth (29 November 2018). "Tamilrockers: How does the website work? Who are uploading movies?". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 12 June 2019. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
  2. "Actor Vishal meets Chief Minister, seeks action against Tamilrockers". The News Today. 5 February 2019. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
  3. Shekar, Anjana (12 January 2019). "How Karthik Subbaraj's 'Petta' team is fighting Tamil Rockers". The News Minute. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
  4. DelhiAugust 12, Press Trust of India New; August 12, 2019UPDATED; Ist, 2019 18:47. "Block TamilRockers and piracy websites: Delhi High Court to Internet Service Providers". India Today. Retrieved 30 August 2019.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. "Delhi HC Directs Internet Service Providers to Block Tamilrockers for Unauthorised Movie Screening". News18. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
  6. "2.0 leaked: Why is it so hard to stop the Tamilrockers?". Oneindia. 1 December 2018. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
  7. "MPA Adds 1XBET and Baidu to Latest Piracy Threat Report". TorrentFreak. 13 October 2019. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
  8. "MPA's full report" (PDF).
  9. "Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2020". TorrentFreak. 5 January 2020. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
  10. "Kerala police arrest 5 for piracy: 3 from Tamilrockers and 2 from DVD rockers". www.thenewsminute.com. 15 March 2018. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
  11. "TamilRockers: Members of piracy website Tamil Rockers arrested". The Times of India. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
  12. "TamilRockers domain blocked, but the piracy website can come back anytime". The News Minute. 20 October 2020. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
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