In a bid to economically stifle illegal and pirated websites, the Maharashtra cyber digital crime unit (MCDCU) has sent notices to top banks, e-commerce portals, multi-national companies (MNCs) and start-ups, asking them to withdraw their advertisements from such sites or face prosecution.

Showing Sanju and football
Apart from these corporate entities, MCDCU has even asked e-payment getaways to not provide services to these unauthorised websites. This missive came about after MCDCU recently found that movies, such as Sanju, and the football World Cup are being illegally streamed on those websites.