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DoodStream’s Traffic Takes a Battering as Hollywood Lawsuit Takes Its Toll.


After a court ordered DoodStream to remove hundreds of thousands of links to mainstream movies and TV shows, the site's traffic is collapsing.

The bottom line is that DoodStream’s efforts to remove all copies of the plaintiffs’ copyrighted works failed to meet the requirements of the injunction. The Court’s response was to issue an order that banned DoodStream’s owners, Raja Durai and Sarvesh Chandran, from directly or indirectly operating their own website, pending a hearing listed for September 18, 2024. However, the Delhi High Court recently noted that by storing and distributing material that is illegal in India, any hope of seeking refuge under Section 79 of the IT Act, as an intermediary exempt from liability, is futile.

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