Court order bans 90 websites from showing Hrithik Roshan’s ‘Bang Bang!’

Mumbai: The Delhi High Court on Tuesday restricted 90 websites from streaming, broadcasting or providing online view to the upcoming movie‘Bang Bang!’. The film, which stars Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif in the leading roles, will be realeased on October 2.

Fox Star Studios India Limited, which is the co-producer of the movie, had knocked at High Court’s door seeking that their film cannot be viewed on any other device or broadcast on any platform through internet without their permission.

Taking consigns of the plea, Justice Manmohan Singh served notice to 18 websites which were mentioned in the appeal of the producers. The court also banned 72 other websites which were mentioned in a separate list before the court.

Apart from restraining the websites from providing access to the movie, the court also ordered several Internet Service Providers (ISP), Department of Telecommunications and Department of Information Technology to make sure and secure compliance by blocking access to all the 90 websites identified by the producers.

The next date of hearing in the case has been scheduled on November 21.

“In the present case, the websites owners are committing piracy and collecting illegal profits, who are peeping behind the curtain and laughing at the producers of the movies. If this is not fraud, what else?

“In fact, piracy in copyright cases is a curse to the well-established system in the country and it should be curbed and dealt with an iron hand,” the court said.