Stop piracy: Hollywood studio to Meerut university

May 07, 2016 03:14

Renowned Hollywood film studio Paramount Pictures has served a notice to Meerut's Chaudhary Charan Singh University after a large number of students illegally downloaded movies through the varsity's IP address, The Times of India reported.

The CCSU had started a free WiFi service for students last year. Since the university had not set up any firewall, students had been downloading movies and TV series without restriction.

The National Informatics Centre New Delhi, on Friday sent a copy of the notice to the CCSU. The NIC had received the legal notice from one Adrian Leatherland from the Australia-based anti-piracy firm IP-Echelon.

The Los Angeles-based Paramount Pictures is a client of IP-Echelon, which monitors online piracy across 25 countries. One of the firm's biggest clients is HBO, which had hired it last year to track down "pirates" who were leaking episodes of its hit show 'Game of Thrones' online.

In the notice sent to NIC, IP-Echelon stated that they had found that CCSU's IP address has been used to illegally download and distribute video files which are exclusively owned by its client Paramount.

"IP-Echelon has a good faith belief that the Paramount video content has not been authorized for sharing or distribution by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law. I also assert that the information contained in this notice is accurate to the best of our knowledge. We are requesting your immediate assistance in removing and disabling access to the infringing material from your network. We also ask that you ensure the user and IP address owner refrains from future use and sharing of Paramount materials and property," the notice read.

Leatherland further writes that in complying with the notice, NIC should not destroy any evidence, which may be relevant in a lawsuit, relating to the alleged infringement, including all associated electronic documents and data relating to the presence of infringing items on their network, which shall be preserved while disabling public access, irrespective of any document retention or corporate policy to the contrary.

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