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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 :)
Maybe try banning windows?
It is cute to see non-indians trying to guess the reason. We were like you once. It is an exercise in futility. Our government is run by monkeys. They are stubbornly uneducated about science and technology, at the same time pretending to know everything about it. How does our government take decisions? My best guess is they consult a successful team of astrologers.
Recently, in an op/ed article about something different the journalist said "India is a first world country with a third world government."
More on topic: I didn't know about VLC until an Indian coworker introduced it to me.
Maybe its VLCs built in streaming services like shoutcast directory, maybe a stream on shoutcast is blacklisted in India, so they blacklisted the app. (Icecast actually) https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-stream-radio-stations-in-vlc...
Wait! we can blame foreign hackers !!
I wonder if using a Ninite.com installer bypasses this?
I think this is probably inconsistent across ISPs. I was able to access VideoLAN website and the download link just now.
https://www.meity.gov.in/ : This is the website for the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, the government body that issues orders under the relevant IT Act in India. They have a grievance section to file a grievance.
Past order banning 118 apps from 2020 (doesn't seem to list VLC) from Press Information Bureau (the communications division of the Govt. of India) https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1650669
President of VideoLAN here: we got banned since a few months, and we don’t know why. (According to my stats, it is since the 13 February 2022) . We’ve asked the Indian government and we got no answer. We probably did not ask the right place though. I wish I knew how to ask properly. The weirdest is that some ISP are blocking it and some are not. So why is that the case? Are some ISP not listening to the government? V…
It must be because VLC allows people to watch pirated content. Which would be the most ridiculous reason to get banned for.
President of VideoLAN here: we got banned since a few months, and we don’t know why. (According to my stats, it is since the 13 February 2022) . We’ve asked the Indian government and we got no answer. We probably did not ask the right place though. I wish I knew how to ask properly. The weirdest is that some ISP are blocking it and some are not. So why is that the case? Are some ISP not listening to the government? V…
The Indian government (and Indian courts) is infamous for these random harebrained stunts. In the past, it has banned archive.org [1], continues to block the French ISP free.fr, etc. VLC was likely banned because people use it to watch pirated films (the same reason free.fr continues to be banned [2]). And it's plain f*cking stupid to just ban videolan.org, because it can be downloaded from numerous other websites [3…
I can't wait until the Indian government tries to ban debian.org https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/vlc