> Found in 2006, by two lIT graduates
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Indigenously made search engine
> Product mix
= Web search
Vertical search
= Mobile ads optimization
» Provides only music search results
> Revenue model : Advertisements in their wel
> Is guruji.com a search engine or publisher ?
= 4
> Since offline consumption is already suffering losses,
they shifted towards the leaks in online content
» T-series also stated that companies like MSN and
Yahoo can’t take a safe harbor under DMCA ACT
because the copyright holder is indian. So, Indian
Copyright Act is applicable.
> T-Series is fighting a series of copyright battles on
* Google
*ZeeTV
* MSN.
* Yahoo
* Gurujicom\
/- > Guruji.com initially popular for music search slowly
> Digital Millennium Copyright Act was passed in 1998
> Under this act, it isa crime to produce technology,
tools and services which fudge the access to
copyrighted works
> DMCAalso took also took care to amplify the
penalties for copyright infringement on the internet.
gained popularity as pirated music search engine
> Servers of Guruji.com didn’t hold any pirated music
but it promoted the pirated music through its own
homepage search results.
> They have also created a dedicated page for these
songs
> Used “deep linking” to provide access to pirated
music:
& The real problem lies with sites like songs.pk which
hold pirated songs in their servers )
“SS dj