<p>Amidst controversy over Akhilesh Yadav watching allegedly a pirated copy of Amir Khan starrer film PK, the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister's office today termed as "baseless" the allegation and said the movie was downloaded through an authorised site.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"The screening of PK was done on Club X media server installed at Akhilesh Yadav's residence. The Club X service enables authorised private screenings of movies at Club X licensed auditorium of its members. Movies can be screened from the date of their theatrical release in India," an official statement issued by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's office said here.<br /><br />"Movies are delivered to the Club X media servers over a captive satellite network or are physically delivered and are stored in a digitally encrypted form. A licence is required to playback the movie each time and is issued based upon the authorisation received from the content owners," it said.<br /><br />"This is a commercial service with all the necessary authorisations from the content providers. This screening was done with a licence which was issued specifically for this screening," it added.<br /><br />Assumptions about downloading a movie over the internet and any any unathourised used are baseless, it said.<br /><br />The controversy over Akhilesh Yadav's watching the movie PK generated on December 31, when he said, "I downloaded it a few days ago, but only found the time to watch it last night. I liked it immediately and decided to make it tax-free so that more people can watch it".<br /><br />Founder of TAHRIR (Transparency, Accountability and Human Rights Initiative for Revolution) Sanjay Sharma had moved an application with the Hazratganj Police on January 2 for lodging an FIR against Yadav for the offence of downloading the film from a website and watching a pirated copy of the film.<br />The chief minister's office had on Twitter reacted to the controversy by posting, "#UPCM #Akhileshyadav has licensed @UFOMoviez digifacility to download & watch movies. Controversy around pirated download is unwarranted (sic),".</p>
<p>Amidst controversy over Akhilesh Yadav watching allegedly a pirated copy of Amir Khan starrer film PK, the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister's office today termed as "baseless" the allegation and said the movie was downloaded through an authorised site.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"The screening of PK was done on Club X media server installed at Akhilesh Yadav's residence. The Club X service enables authorised private screenings of movies at Club X licensed auditorium of its members. Movies can be screened from the date of their theatrical release in India," an official statement issued by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's office said here.<br /><br />"Movies are delivered to the Club X media servers over a captive satellite network or are physically delivered and are stored in a digitally encrypted form. A licence is required to playback the movie each time and is issued based upon the authorisation received from the content owners," it said.<br /><br />"This is a commercial service with all the necessary authorisations from the content providers. This screening was done with a licence which was issued specifically for this screening," it added.<br /><br />Assumptions about downloading a movie over the internet and any any unathourised used are baseless, it said.<br /><br />The controversy over Akhilesh Yadav's watching the movie PK generated on December 31, when he said, "I downloaded it a few days ago, but only found the time to watch it last night. I liked it immediately and decided to make it tax-free so that more people can watch it".<br /><br />Founder of TAHRIR (Transparency, Accountability and Human Rights Initiative for Revolution) Sanjay Sharma had moved an application with the Hazratganj Police on January 2 for lodging an FIR against Yadav for the offence of downloading the film from a website and watching a pirated copy of the film.<br />The chief minister's office had on Twitter reacted to the controversy by posting, "#UPCM #Akhileshyadav has licensed @UFOMoviez digifacility to download & watch movies. Controversy around pirated download is unwarranted (sic),".</p>