DMCA & Copyright Policy

Behind every film, series, and live fixture stands someone's labour and someone's investment, and Castle honours that. What follows is the journey a copyright complaint takes through Castle, from the notice you send to the moment a link vanishes, all of it under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and the Copyright Act, 1957 of India.

How we meet creators' rights

The index is assembled automatically, and no one here chooses by hand the content that sits behind its links. What we hold out to rights holders instead is a process they can count on: send a complete, valid notice and we act on it quickly, be you a major studio, a regional house, a sports league, or a lone creator. This is a commitment we work to, not a phrase for a page, and a regional producer's notice carries exactly the same weight as a major studio's.

What lies within our power

One thing is worth grasping before you write. The video reached through Castle rests on servers we do not own or control, so erasing a file from the internet is not something we can do. What we can do, and do dependably, is lift the link out of our directory, so that Castle no longer leads a soul to it. The instant your notice is verified, that is the step we take.

Sending a valid notice

Send your notice through the contact centre on our official website, and see that it carries all six of these:

  1. Your signature, physical or electronic, as the rights holder or an authorised agent.
  2. The work named by its exact title, with a year of release or the studio behind it.
  3. The precise link or in-app location; a title alone gives us nothing to trace.
  4. Your real contact details: full legal name, email address, and phone number.
  5. A good-faith statement that the use is unauthorised by the owner, its agent, or the law.
  6. A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the notice is accurate and that you may file it.

A notice short of any of these may be held up. Once a complete one is confirmed, the link comes down without undue delay, and the affected party is told where that applies.

If a link came down in error

Section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957 shields fair dealing, taking in criticism, review, news reporting, and kindred honest uses. If you judge a removal to have been a mistake, send a counter-notification through the same contact centre: set out the exemption you rely on, point us to the material and where it once sat, sign it, add your contact details, and consent to the jurisdiction of the courts of New Delhi or Mumbai. If it stands and no proceedings begin within the period the law allows, the link may return.

When the abuse repeats

Castle runs a firm three-strike policy against anyone who keeps misusing the platform or feeding unauthorised links into the directory. The first strike is a formal warning with the links removed; the second, a temporary suspension from the tools involved; the third, a permanent exclusion from the service. Conduct that is severe or plainly in bad faith may go straight to that last step. And a notice you know to be false brings you legal risk rather than any advantage, so keep every submission exact and honest.