Movierulz 2020 – Illegal HD Movies Download Website

Piracy has been affecting the box-office collection of movies across the world. There are several websites across the globe like Movierulz that pirate movies and leak them online for free before the movies could even release. Fans who cannot wait for the movie tend to download these pirated movies which leads to a decrease in the audience that goes to theatres to watch the latest films. Movierulz has been leaking content for a long time now. Here is all you need to know about this piracy website:

About ‘Movierulz’

Movierulz is a piracy website infamous for allowing users to download pirated movies.This notorious online portal is responsible for streaming the latest English, Bollywood, Punjabi, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu movies before their release or as soon as they are exhibited in theatres. With the growing popularity of TV shows and web series on television channels and online streaming platforms, even these are now available for illegal download on Movierulz. Viewers can easily enjoy free movies online on these platforms, often in full HD quality. However, production houses and actors have been continuously requesting the audience to not encourage piracy at websites like Movierulz and instead watch the movies in theatres.

Movierulz in India

Since piracy is illegal in India, the Indian government has banned sites like Movierulz but that has failed to stop the leak of movies on such websites. To get around the ban, Movierulz online website keeps routinely changing its domain name extension and keeps leaking a lot of movies from various film industries illegally. The site then allows users to download full movies in cam or HD prints online.

How many arrests have been made from the Indian Police?

The Hyderabad Police received a complaint from the producer/ director, Gunasekhar on October 10, 2019. The Director complained that his film Rudramadevi has been pirated after its release on October 9. Police arrested 3 people in Hyderabad for violating the IT Act, 2008, and the Copyright Act, 1957. They found out that the 3 arrested students were working for Indians residing in Sri Lanka who hire such students to pirate videos for Movierulz Telugu movies.

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What is the government doing to stop piracy?

The Government has taken definitive steps to eradicate piracy of films. As per the Cinematograph Act approved in 2019, any individual found recording a movie without the written consent of the producers can face a jail term up to 3 years. Besides this, a fine of ₹10 lakhs can also be imposed on the culprits. People circulating pirated copies on illegal torrent websites can also face a jail term.

Will I go to jail or be fined for downloading a movie illegally?

According to the piracy law in India, if a person is taken to the court and it is proven that he/she has knowingly infringed or helped someone else infringe and download a copyrighted movie from Movierulz online website, then it would be considered to be a criminal act. The court will assume that the person knew of the infringement because in most cases the movie contains a watermark or notice which indicates that it is a copyrighted work.

Under the law, the punishment for a person being convicted for their first such offence is a jail term for six months and three years, with a fine between ₹50,000 and ₹200,000 (depending on the seriousness of the offence).