Is Downloading From Torrent Site Illegal Will The Users Have To Face Imprisonment?

Copyright Act 2012 restricts such tendencies. Section 65A. (J) Any person who circumvents an effective technological measure applied for the purpose of protecting any of the rights conferred by this Act, with the intention of infringing such rights, shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to two years and shall also be liable to fine. The only reason that India has not been able to successfully ban these services is that the servers rest outside India and we don’t have any law to extend our jurisdiction to that extent today. As an end user if you download a pirated version of things you are not entitled to, you can be booked criminally under this Act and can face prison for up to 2 years.