Maybe try banning windows?
Finally, year of the Linux desktop!
Say what you will, but I have been using Linux as my desktop machine very happily for over 20 years, and I'm no wizard. VLC is a big part of that!
VLC media player banned in India
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Re: VLC media player banned in India
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
The article basically states that the reason the government banned it was because Chinese actors were using VideoLAN products (VLC) to deploy malware loaders onto citizens' devices. I don't understand why they banned videolan.org though. It's a French website, and I'd assume the Chinese actors were bundling malware when VLC was installed from another website and not videolan.org. Videolan.org is EXACTLY where VLC sho…
It says > The reason behind blocking these apps is that the government feared these platforms were sending user data to China Maybe they have some CDN or some service in China?
None whatsoever.
Re: VLC media player banned in India
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is unfortunate, sorry you had to go through that. The article made a claim that VLC is owned by a Chinese entity. That surprised me because I thought VideoLAN was and is French. Is that the case?
> That surprised me because I thought VideoLAN was and is French. It is a French non-profit whose address is my parents place :)
Reading this made my day. Thank you, from my heart, for this software - it is precious to me.
I have relied on it since 2002 as my everyday media player on every device I have ever built. I have evangelized whenever and wherever I can.
Re: VLC media player banned in India
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe they corrected it, but for me it says the opposite. > Notably, VLC Media Player is not backed by a Chinese company. It is developed by VideoLAN, a Paris-based firm.
> It is developed by VideoLAN, a Paris-based firm. Non-profit, not firm.
you work and ethics have been an inspiration to many
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#106No post body was provided.
Re: VLC media player banned in India
#107The list of other apps included contains an interesting app: Camscanner The app is apparently Chinese (also mentioned on the wikipedia page [0]) IMHO making an app like this is really smart to try to gain access confidential documents when they are scanned. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CamScanner
True. A lot of corporate policies are to never handle physical client documents. Scan them and send them to a secure drive.
Re: VLC media player banned in India
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
governments write their own checks and set their own pay rate. You can bet they are quite rich.
Actually, that’d be great. The most likely reason it got banned is because of corruption. One reason for corruption is that politicians aren’t paid well. What smart competent sane person would rationally choose to be a politician? Maybe if it paid competitively. I wonder if there is a study on the ROI?
What a wild idea. Corporations and wealthy people are also corrupt. It turns out that it is a lack of morals. Or in many cases a complete dismissal of them for the pursuit of profit.
Re: VLC media player banned in India
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is unfortunate, sorry you had to go through that. The article made a claim that VLC is owned by a Chinese entity. That surprised me because I thought VideoLAN was and is French. Is that the case?
> That surprised me because I thought VideoLAN was and is French. It is a French non-profit whose address is my parents place :)
I know it's kind of funny to ask this, but have your parents received any weird legal mail from the Indian government that might be about the block?