Dotcom Bust

The CEO and senior executives of guruji.com, an Indian search engine, were arrested last week for running the site too efficiently.

The CEO and senior executives of guruji.com, an Indian search engine, were arrested last week for running the site too efficiently. An FIR filed by T-Series, the music company, said it was ‘for infringement and displaying in guruji.com  film songs of 1) Om Shanti Om 2) All The Best 3) Bhool Bhulaiya 4) Apka Suroor 5) Aashiq Banaya Apne…’ (reported by medianama.com). A search for, say, Raavan mp3 on the search engine guides users to a separate page where the movie’s song streams from across the web are collated for download or instant listening. This goes a step beyond most engines, which throw up sites that claim to carry film songs, rather than link the songs themselves. However, the arrests raised eyebrows because the detained did not host pirated content, only links to it.

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