Arrested on charge of movie piracy

Published - March 08, 2017 10:16 pm IST - KOCHI

The Palarivattom police have arrested a 26-year-old Thrissur native on charge of uploading the Malayalm movie “Ozhivudivasathe Kali” in an open website.

The arrested person, identified as Vineesh Velayudhan, a native of Chavakkadu, allegedly downloaded the movie from a protected site Reelmonk.com, a Kochi-based online film distribution platform, using a screen recorder in his computer and later uploaded the same to a torrent website.

Based on a complaint, a police team arrested Vineesh from Thrissur and he was booked under the IT Act and the Copyright Act.

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