India to amend copyright laws
The government plans to amend the copyright laws under which software piracy will be an offence and punishable with up to two years imprisonment or monetary penalty. The bill to amend the 50 year old Copyright Act was proposed by the HRD ministry and copyright office and is like to be tabled in Parliament soon. It is projected that due to the software piracy the country makes a loss of $ 2 billion every year. Another major proposed change in the Act is on erasing or altering information about “rights management information” also called as ownership rights which will attract monetary penalty and imprisonment upto two years
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Is posting hyperlinks of pirated software on a website a cyber-crime even if the intention behind posting the hyperlink is constituting a database of hyperlinks to be put into firewall to prevent access to those sites ?
Also, an encouragement is given to buy the genuine software and genuine website is mentioned.
Please answer my question.
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