The Indian government, through the (Amendment proposed in 2021) and the Information Technology Act , ramped up pressure. The Tamil Nadu Police’s Cyber Crime Cell, in coordination with the Motion Picture Association (MPA) and Telugu Film Chamber of Commerce , conducted several raids.

: By 2021, the Indian government had already blocked several prominent piracy websites. However, sites like Madras Rockers adapted by routinely changing their domain extensions (e.g., from .com to .net to .info to .co ). When one domain was blocked by Internet Service Providers (ISPs), the administrators would simply launch a new one. This "cat-and-mouse" game made it incredibly difficult to permanently shut down the operation. Users searching for "Madras Rockers net 2021" often found new proxy or mirror sites designed to evade blocks.

Operating as a classic "torrent" site, it didn't host files directly. Instead, it provided users with torrent files or magnet links, which allowed them to download pieces of a file from many different computers globally using peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing technology.