DownloadHub.com Lets You Download Bollywood and Hollywood Films but It is Breach of Privacy

Is it piracy if you are downloading films from DownloadHub.com?

Piracy has been affecting box office collection of movies across the world leading to a decrease in the number of movie theatres going to see films at cinema halls. A number of OTT platforms too face a lot of losses due to piracy websites leaking their content, leading to lesser subscriptions for them.

However, privacy is a punishable offence. According to Indian piracy laws, punishment for a person being convicted for their first such time offence is a jail term for six months which may go up to three years. They can also be fined a sum between Rs 50,000 and Rs 2 lakhs.

Also, under the 2019 Cinematograph Act, recording a movie without written consent from a producer is also a punishable offence.

However, sites like DownloadHub manage to function by continuously creating domain extensions from .com, .info, .un, .in, .uk and more to sidetrack efforts made by the government to stop piracy.