As of now, in the ongoing privacy war and an issue on Universal copyrights, cyberpolice have taken a leap. Yes, they have raided a streaming portal and have found some copyright infringement contents.
Here, the contents were violating the rights of Universal City Studios and many more different companies.
Further, there is a 24-year old man who is a well-known suspect and the mastermind of 10 pirate sites. Hence, after the court’s judgment, he will face a massive 6 years of prison.
Hence, with an intention to take you to a journey of cyberpolice raid on different pirate sites, let’s move ahead and discover the same.
Cyberpolice Raid Different Pirate Sites To Catch Infringement Universal Copyright Contents
First of all, Ukraine was under the global radar of not doing much things to tackle offline as well as online piracy.
Still, the country is well-known for piracy rates but putting constraints against piracy has always been absent in Ukraine.
Further, according to a word of mouth by Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs, their action has taken down plenty of the pirate sites.
In addition, the ministry even said that the officers from the Kiev Department of Cyberpolices have drawn a warrant. Here, the warrant has come in the south-eastern city of Zaporizhzhia where a 24-year old man was made the target.
Moving ahead, the man is running a pirate streaming service by the name OneMov.net.And, along with that, different streaming services were a major part of that.
Further, authorities said that the given site was violating different universal copyrights contents and was selling it to different people.
Here, the whole copyright content belongs to Universal City Studios and is under the representation of the Ukrainian Anti-Piracy Association.
A Word of Mouth by the Internal Affairs
“In his apartment, the system unit of a personal computer containing an electronic control panel of the site becomes inaccessible. In addition, a router is found that was used to administer the specified web resource and bank cards, which included funds from advertising on the specified site,” the Ministry of Internal Affairs said.
However, to date, the name of the sites hasn’t been released and nothing is clear till now.
Now, as the situation goes, the arrested man is under remand for offences. And, it has also come under Part 3, Article 176 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Hence, with this case, the person can receive a prison of up to six years.
Earlier this year, even the United States Trade Representative (USTR) kept mighty Ukraine in their Priority Watch List (pdf).
Here, the government agencies were using pirated software’s and there was a failure to implement any anti-piracy measures.
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Final Word of Mouth: Cyberpolice Raid Different Pirate Sites To Infringement Universal Copyrights
As far as the current scenario goes, the cyberpolice has caught the 24-year-old man along with different pirate sites.
Hence, with this, investigations are going on and the universal studios are also putting a hard try at their best.
Thus will this effort by the cyberpolice will bring any change for piracy content.
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