But what are these sites, and why should users stay away despite the lure of free content?

Prabhas spent years building Mirchi with blood, sweat, and emotion. Reducing that art to a 700MB .mp4 file on an ugly, ad-ridden piracy site is an insult to the craft.

The police raid the warehouse. Vikram disappears into the digital wind, his identity wiped clean from the Moviezwap servers.