Many webmasters have started hosting and offering illegal download links and also sharing MP3 music songs through their blogs. The site owners take the rules very lightly and feel that this a very easy way to earn money on the Internet.
The Cyber Cell of Mumbai Crime Branch arrested a student in gujarat who was running a blog where readers could directly download pirated music songs while the licensed owners loosing money because of this. Following this when more tracking was done there were multiple websites found by the investigators like www.songsdl.com, www.mp3don.com etc Source : Indian Express
This is nothing new because cases like these have become common these days because its the users who download these pirated content from these websites and in return help these pirated site owners more famous and encourage them. Its time you should stop downloading content from these kind of websites, about which we have had reported earlier too. Ex : Guruji.com offering illegal MP3 Songs while legal sites like Hungama.com never getting the right promotion.
Around 3 years back a guy from North India buzzed me on Google Talk seeking for help on what to do, after getting a legal notice from one of the large Music Production House from India. The case came up when he was offering illegal downloads through his blogs and T-Series sent him a notice along with a huge amount of fees. Check out the article where in T-Series moves to delhi high court against YouTube.
Do you know someone who offers these kind of services, its better to suggest them to stop these kind of websites or else they would get themselves into so big problems that coming out of those would be very hard.
Can we do something about songs.pk … the biggest of all …
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oh… what abt songs.pk they are best in piracy
There is no solution for that as of now, because i guess it does not come in the Indian Judiciary and the Government of India nor the Music Licensing Companies can go against them.
to kuch option ni,wo to khule aam piracy krti he,or virus bi ate he us site se dangerous.
songs.pk pakistani website hai lalit….and yes their are no such rules their so they are dominating this crap!!
it is very bad news for this type of blogger.
Amit, There are many sites which shows disclaimer like this “This is a promotional website only, All the downloadable content provided on this site (All metrials) is for testing/promotion purposes only.All files placed here are for introducing purpose. We highly ENCOURAGE users to BUY the CDs or DVDs of the movie or the music they like.Please, buy original Songs/contents from author or developer site!”. and also promises that if anybody make complaint about any content they will remove it. Is this makes them legal?
No this does not make them legal, but they add this based on advice from other site owners who don’t real know or understand the laws. If you start selling stolen stuff with a disclaimer that its not your problem and you shouldn’t be accounted for this, will that make you a legal businessman? Never encourage these kind of websites and suggest them always to stop what they have been doing or else they would have to face these kind of consequences.
what about Amitabh’s son Abhishek being hero and the whole bollywood industry not allowing anybody from outside, except John Abraham in 20 years now ?
is that legal ? who are you to decide wht’s legal and not ? i’m a good singer, Sonu Nigam would never let me in, so why shouldn’t his songs be stolen ?
Sony Nigam is not going to stop you nor anyone in the world can stop ay talented person, so stop cursing someone just because they are famous now. If you have the guts and real talent to prove you need to show case it to the world and it would be recognized. The Engineering student did something which is similar to cheating, where in he acquired something for free and distributed for free in return earning money but the source is not going to allow this.
Agreee…..they can not do anything with songs.pk, they can only show their power on poor people.
Pakistani websites are the main culprits and it will be very difficult to tame them. i thing about 80% pirated music is hosted / downloaded from these websites
Thats true and there is no quick solution for that.
A very well written ans useful article to all.
Thank you.
Warning for MFA sites owner, mostly new bloggers starts entertainment and music blogs.
That guy who buzzed you from North India was me. But i removed the songs right away and nothing really happened except drop in traffic slowly.
I didn’t disclose anything about you because i wouldn’t do that without permissions, if you can reply here with what happened with you, it would be great and useful to everyone.
That matter is now closed so i don’t mind discussing here. I was in 11th standard when i received a legal notice from T Series which demanded removal of all MP3 links and Rs. 1 Crore as their losses resulting from it. I removed the songs and explained my case to them, that I am still a school going student and i didn’t really have any knowledge about copyrights and stuff and they never sent me any other notice or warning about the money.
It is true that many students still don’t know that giving links to mp3 files is illegal because many big sites like songs.pk etc are distributing it easily and millions of Indians are downloading freely so they would have understood my case.
Actually, before i removed the mp3 songs my site just starting receiving 15000 visitors a day and i was making Rs. 50000 p/m but now slowly the rankings are gone and so are earnings.
Now instead of giving links to mp3 and other copyrighted material i have a full time writer who writes movie review and music reviews and latest news from Bollywood.
can u tell me link of ur site??
indian govt. should also take action against songspk
of course coz its pakistani website right!!
ONe such case was that of “SavitaBhabhi.com”
The owner of this website was an Indian but police and govt. were not able to charge him as he was having citizenship of some other country also.
If piracy and porn industry is to be banned then the initiative should start at a world level…which in my opinion is never possible…
i am sorry but why would you think porn must be banned? Piracy, i agree but not on the latter case.
whatever be the case banning these will not help….and they have huge incomes from these sites so banning these is not an idea!!
Yaar Amit,
These so called crime branch can only catch indian people while there are other websites on the internet which are operating from pakistan. so called crime branch people can not catch them and unable to block their website in india.
crime branch people need 5 year training that how to catch criminal and terrirists.
bye
Well said Amit! I know a site which encourages music piracy in a local language of southern India viz., Tamil. It is http://www.tamilspider.com and I wonder how to stop it from doing music piracy. Can you help me out?
The government needs to take action as soon as possible to put curtains on this illegal market. It will require some doing but it must be started as soon as possible!
Amit :- About this News I was Informed you
and
My one friend also doing same thing he is publishing
online streaming of movies,
watch online Tv serials and
downloads of ovies songs and softwares also
But why he is still safe and he is generating really Big amount
Above 50 lakh Rs per month
Raaga.com is still illegally streaming T-series content. Now T-series has a off-the-curtain arrangement with them for the 50 % revenue sharing….Can we send this to lokpal bill ?
http://songsdl.com is still active !!!!! bribed ???
Amit,
songs.pk can be easily banned in India likewise google’s selective product are banned by chinese government. you need two licenses for legal streaming of Music, PPL (body of IMI) + IPRS. T-series content is not offered by this body but exclusively offered by hungama.con. Neeraj Roy and Bhushan Kumar of T-series have some arrangements. The earlier illegal websites sustained which now have become partly legal. Raaga.com – CEO Senthil, US , Smashits.com, CEO, Abesh Verma, US are still illegally or legally streaming songs remain doubt-able. Musicindiaonline.com, CEO, Anand Iyyer is a illegal site. All these sites draw a monthly traffic of 2-3 Million users and all these sites were launched in the year 1997-1999.
I have a hunch of following….when record labels like saregama, T-series or even ppl bodies see that there is a big traffic, they track down the owner who is mostly in US….they warn them to close the website or have a different arrangement of revenue sharing. Phulki folks, were threated by T-series which then were referred to smashits.com to jointly lanuch a new venture – saavn.com …but this is all black money….and it seems there are even corrupt people in the legal bodies of India who get monthly bribe from these illegal portals…Zero transparency but T-series may be enjoying black money ????
I really dont understand why not pakistani website are not been banned or stopped for piracy…..
sir,
I am a great fan of yours.
thanks sir…
Music Piracy is growing very fast around the world and Entertainment industry is loosing lot of money.
soon Indian govt.will ban all such pirate music sites…
how many commenters have purchased legal CDs of indian music so they all are making big big talks here. 😛
gr8 saurabh, i am sure even nobody knows legal CD’s shop in their vicinity..
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T-Series par ab koi aur kaam nahin, sirf notice bhejna reh gaya hai. Isko shayad pata nahin ki aaj kal movies songs hit hone par hi hit hoti hai. For example MUNNI BADNAAM, SHEEL KI JAWAANI like that. Kitne log india main 6-7 songs ke liye 250 INR kharch karenge ? To ye log pirated songs download karte hain and is tarah se songs hit ho jate hain kyunki jayda se jyda log gaane sun paate hain. and Saath main movie bhi hit ho jaati hai.
So in this case PIRACY is good.
And how many peoples this time didn’t break Indian copyright laws ?
If you are driving your car you will not insert original CD which contains only 6 songs and 100 % you don’t want to listen all songs. So if you are listing mp3 CDs of about 150 songs , you are breaking copyright laws.
ya exactly bro. for just 6-10 songs of a movie..who can gonna buy original cd/dvd..N u as said T-series nd such big company hv to mind this..if people who downloading from such websites..thats y their songs get such huge success….indian cyber laws sucks!
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Piracy is so hard to stop or should I properly say, it’s unstoppable! Even some of the cops are secretly in line with such crime. And the government organizations are just so blind about it.
Common guys who cares 😀 i ll keep downloading 😛
@aman thats a very interesting story,im sure youre a very talented guy,but let me tell all you guys something,even doing something illegal is not going to get you easy money,you have to struggle and work hard even there,wat say 🙂
why indian crime branch can touch http://www.songs.pk no 1 can stop it…hahahahahaha shame on indian crime branch department…. catching own indians…but not pakistani’s…
This is a good but little step towards music piracy.. But there is a long way to stop these kinds of piracy.. more over people should also be aware about not to use pirated CDs etc
Its impossible to stop piracy. Thats Fact….Because no 1 use original Disc for audio songs in india. They buy Mp3 Cd for 25rs they get 120 Songs. then why to spent 150Rs for 8 songs ? Music industry should understand the situation.
ya..Its Songs.pk and djmaza.com and many more site providing pirated contents..Why the owner of this site never gets arrest ? I think they have earned lots of corers from their sites,,
Guyz we know our Crime branch department is fully corrupted. They will always take money from big piraters. And actually no 1 can stop piracy. If you share 1 song with your friend via Bluetooth is also piracy. So we cant blame anyone and spread it world wide that engineering student with “Display name” why to just point to one student. No one of us….is using original. We buy mp3 disc or download free from google. So we cant blame this innocent guy. Inshort we all are piraters..if piracy is so what called. And no 1 can stop piracy. Inshort there should not be any term Piracy. Media is always to share not to sell….the more we share more hit songs get…thats why people know actors and filmstars…if people dont hear songs then who will know who is the singer or who is the actor ? how it will get famous ? So Dear Amit, I think your should remove his name(nothing personal) but we dont have right to blame anyone and speard his/her name worldwide. Infact none of us use original songs. We all know that. We all download from google or take from bluetooth from friends.so we should really look @ this point.
Even I do own a movies blog, I too used to add download links to my blog, but soon after reading this post about a month ago, I removed all the mp3 songs links. Lucky me! I am saved.
Now, I just add movie details, synopsis, trailers and reviews.
Thanks Amit Bhawani !
You saved my life and also my money! 😉
Hi Amit, I found many website and blog have following copyright policy
Before Downloading Any Contents From This Website You Must Follow These Steps:
Always Buy Original CDs From Your Nearest Store.
Check Your Country’s Copyright Policies.
Do Not Sell Or Distribute Contents Downloaded From This Website.
Always Use Contents Of This Website Only For Backup Purpose Of Your Original CDs.
Please note that we do not host any copyrighted content on this website, All mp3 files are uploaded on Mediafire.com And Other Websites.
However, we offer a service to remove MP3 Songs File’s Links From our website if the copyright holder of the content requests so. These removal requests are only valid if:
You are, or your company is, the copyright holder of the content in question.
You provide the exact URLs to the MP3 Files, no complete (sub)categories or search queries.
You provide the complete name(s) of the content in question.
If your request complies with all of these rules, send a mail to …………………
We remove postings as soon as we can, usually within 48 hours.
What about it mean. IMI does not claim this type of wesite or blog
any person can tell me , hindi movie links website is illegal or not ??? i m not uploading movie , i m only giving movies links like megavideo videozar and others , plz help me
amit wt about movie website? hindilinks4u.net is providing only links , is this ohk? or illegal
everything shared on internet is illegal.
Thanks dude. Nice Post. Thanks for your Information.
I think this whole piracy issue has been around from the last decade or so, n also the technical knowledge of people now a days is quite low ,i mean many people around the world still dont know that softwares are copyrighted items n generally cost you a certain amount of money other than freewares ofcourse, but people take them for granted n i think this is the case here with these illegal sites users, n ofcourse more piracy has been due to the fact that there is a tie-up between the company n these site owners.So i think if the IT education doesnt get the importance in the education system the condition will only get worse…so by educating and promoting people piracy can be reduced although i doubt the facr that it can be completely stopped…
Hi Amit,
thanks for sharing this information with us
ya i m 100% agree everything shared on internet is illegal.
This is just a big partiality.
if indians do piracy its a crime & pakistani website doing it then its not .
What The F***
Piracy has emerged as the biggest obstacle confronting legitimate online music providers. To encourage customers to purchase music from authorised online sources, both antipirating and retention strategies must be effectively implemented.
What about 4shared.com?
Is it legal to embed download link of 4shared in websites?
Sir if I provide only the links of song downloading pages, will it also be a crime?
pakistani users can do anything and innocent student for their pranks get arrested ? wow india is really great…and 1 main thing…ALOK “Do you use original song ?” whats the proof ? no 1 uses purely 100% original music each and every copy song from friends hardisk and mobile via bluetooth. So Its not piracy…Music company should provide secure code with each song so they could be only playable via license only. Else pakistani websites are already up to fuck the indian music industry.
We can’t do anything of Kasab who is in our custody……..Song.pk is far fetched thing…..:(
if we used grabber of any site just we provide link and song download on another site owner like song download from songs.pk and we just provide link only so then we done illegal activity or not
Hi Sir, if you kindly give me the accurate cyber related answer then it will be grateful to you.Please give me the correct information(legal or illegal) about the following.
I have seen many websites in Internets,they are providing download links from songs.pk. From those website when I clicked on it the songs are downloading from songs.pk. So if any site indexed the download links from songs.pk or any other website who allow downloads and display it into their website, so user clicks on the link and the songs will download from the source site from they indexed. Is that legal or illegal ?
Also if site allow to only play songs from different source site like songs.pk instead of download. Is that legal ?
If any one knows the actual cyber related laws then please answers so those site owner who make the website same as the pattern I mentioned here can remove the links and protect the copyright laws.
Thanks in Advance
i want to provide only the download links on my website for MP3s from songs.pk and others, with a disclaimer that the “we are just providing a link the content belongs to 3rd party site, we have not uploaded the content on our website”….. m i doing an illegal job…or can i do this…plz Amit SIr give me a suggestion…
jitne nautanki sab comment kar rahe hain. in few money u r getting many songs to download .so whats the problem with u? saalo ki aukat badh gayi hain muh utha ke chale aate hain giving nonsense comments
indians hai hi aise …. sub kuch free me chahiye wo bi sawalo ke sth…
Rs. 60 ke piche to whatsapp number change kar lete hai phir bat karte hai geniune/ orignally songs ki…..
Hello sir,m ek legal music website lounch krna chahta hoo.songs.pk ki tarah but legal,plz aap mujhe ye batayein ki iski starting cost kya hogi and isko operate krne k liye kya course krna h.aur course ki fees kitni hogi and best institute delhi m konse hain,sathh hi ye b bataye k site pr songs upload krne ka proceeder kya h,konse se licence lene h aur kahan se?website k liye legal music file kahan se provide hogi us company ka naam suggest krein.plz total starting cost jaroor mention krein.
Mujhe aapki advice ka besabri se intjaar rhega.
Please help me…….
Thanku you
Is it any legal way to get the song on our blog and share with our users in indian