Overview

• New amendments impose minimum three-month jail terms and fines up to five percent of a film’s production cost for unauthorised recording or distribution.
• Sections 6AA and 6AB ban illegal recording and transmission while Section 7(1B)(ii) lets authorities order intermediaries to take down infringing content.
• The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and the Central Board of Film Certification are now empowered to receive copyright complaints and issue takedown directives.
• Telugu producer Suniel Narang praised the overhaul as a deterrent to piracy losses that have hit films like Kuberaa and other high-budget releases.
• An anonymous industry director warned that over half of pirated content is hosted on overseas servers, underscoring the need for coordinated domestic and international enforcement.