Tamil Rockers

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Type of site	Torrent
Available in	Tamil
Registration	Optional

Tamil Rockers is a bootleg recording network which was founded in 2011^[1] and a public torrent website that uploads pirated copies of movies, mostly Indian films, in addition to Hollywood movies dubbed into regional languages such as Tamil, Telugu and Hindi along with the original English audio.

The Department of Telecommunication under the directive of the Government of Tamil Nadu regularly blocks the website in India, but the site administrators usually move to new domains extension and change there servers IP address frequently to attempt to evade these blocks^[2]. Some members of the network were reported to have been arrested in December 2016^[3] and September 2017^[4][5]

References[edit]

1. Jump up^ "Tamilrockers Founded in 2011". tamilrockers.net. Retrieved 2018-03-29.
2. Jump up^ "Why Tamilrockers New Domain Names Changing | Tamil Rockers". tamil-rockers.info. Retrieved 2018-03-11.
3. Jump up^ "Members of notorious piracy gang 'Tamilrockers' arrested from Coimbatore". Asianet News Network Pvt Ltd. Retrieved 2018-03-11.
4. Jump up^ "Admin of Tamil piracy web site arrested in Chennai. Was actor Vishal instrumental?". hindustantimes.com. 2017-09-14. Retrieved 2018-03-11.
5. Jump up^ Anand, G. (2015-07-29). "Tamil Rockers on police radar". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2018-03-11.