Introduction The cyber-crime illustrated above is digital piracy which in simple words can be defined as “copyright infringement online by use of the internet” . It involves uploading, streaming, downloading, and sharing of copyrighted works like books, movies, and music which is beyond legal authorisation for access, use and distribution by other people. Digital piracy deprives the producer of that copyrighted work to get its economic return for their creation, property, and labour. Digital piracy is one of the cyber-crimes related to intellectual property rights. Other such online IP crimes include trademarks, patents, and trade secrets. Parallel to technological advancements in the 21 st century, the use of digital media in India, in fact in the world has increased exponentially. Since every coin has two sides, similarly use of digital media has both pros and cons. Among which Digital piracy, where anyone can infringe the right of others by copying and pasting or altering any u