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: Tamilyogi is a notorious website known for leaking Tamil movies and TV shows. It has been a thorn in the side of the Tamil film industry, leading to significant financial losses for producers and causing a stir among fans and creators alike.

| Year | Event | Legal Significance | |------|-------|--------------------| | | Madhya Pradesh High Court issues injunction against “any website facilitating illegal distribution of copyrighted works”. | First explicit judicial recognition of “facilitator” liability in India. | | Oct 2015 | Delhi High Court orders ISPs to block tamilyogi.cat under the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (then‑pending). | Demonstrated courts’ willingness to use provisional blocking despite procedural ambiguities. | | Mar 2016 | Enforcement Directorate seizes domain registrar accounts; domain redirected to “Site Not Available”. | Effective technical takedown; signalled cooperation between law‑enforcement and domain registrars. | | Oct 2016 | Supreme Court affirms lower‑court rulings, stating that “sites that host or provide links to infringing material are primary infringers under the Copyright Act, 1957”. | Established jurisprudential precedent for future hub‑site prosecutions. | tamilyogi.cat