Vimeo, DailyMotion, Pastebin, Xmarks & Major Torrent Sites Blocked in India

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Post by RealGeek » Thu, May 17, 2012, 8:08 AM UTC

Vimeo, DailyMotion, Pastebin, Xmarks & Major Torrent Sites Blocked in India
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Re: Vimeo, DailyMotion, Pastebin, Xmarks & Major Torrent Sites Blocked in India

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Post by jezclaremurugan » Thu, May 17, 2012, 8:45 AM UTC

No it isn't. Everything is working fine for me. I checked in Airtel, and over NIC (National Informatics Center). If it isn't blocked by the NIC (gov. body, btw, I am a gov employee) I doubt whether anyone else would block it.

Re: Vimeo, DailyMotion, Pastebin, Xmarks & Major Torrent Sites Blocked in India

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Post by altrego99 » Thu, May 17, 2012, 8:46 AM UTC

jezclaremurugan wrote: post #2

No it isn't. Everything is working fine for me. I checked in Airtel, and over NIC (National Informatics Center). If it isn't blocked by the NIC (gov. body, btw, I am a gov employee) I doubt whether anyone else would block it.

May be he is infected by a malware that blocks these sites?

Re: Vimeo, DailyMotion, Pastebin, Xmarks & Major Torrent Sites Blocked in India

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Post by rkwz » Thu, May 17, 2012, 8:49 AM UTC

This is what I get:

Access to this site has been blocked as per Court Orders

Re: Vimeo, DailyMotion, Pastebin, Xmarks & Major Torrent Sites Blocked in India

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Post by desipenguin » Thu, May 17, 2012, 8:49 AM UTC

No it isn't. I checked vimeo after I saw a tweet about it being blocked. Was working fine for me. My ISP is semi-govt org.

Re: Vimeo, DailyMotion, Pastebin, Xmarks & Major Torrent Sites Blocked in India

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Post by desipenguin » Thu, May 17, 2012, 8:50 AM UTC

rkwz wrote: post #4

This is what I get: Access to this site has been blocked as per Court Orders

Which ISP ? Location ?

Re: Vimeo, DailyMotion, Pastebin, Xmarks & Major Torrent Sites Blocked in India

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Post by batpad » Thu, May 17, 2012, 8:50 AM UTC

No, these sites are being blocked. I am on Airtel as well and things weren't blocked until yesterday. I think Reliance was the first to enforce the block - I believe they're also the ones who filed for the court order. It's really good to see this on the HN front-page, and hope there's more awareness / discussion. Blocking pastebin is a bit ridiculous :/ - the message one gets when one goes to any of the sites is just "This site has been blocked as per Court Orders", without any other explanation. Changing DNS servers does not work, so they are doing it at a different level.

tl;dr: sites are being blocked. wtf?

Re: Vimeo, DailyMotion, Pastebin, Xmarks & Major Torrent Sites Blocked in India

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Post by RealGeek » Thu, May 17, 2012, 8:50 AM UTC

jezclaremurugan wrote: post #2

No it isn't. Everything is working fine for me. I checked in Airtel, and over NIC (National Informatics Center). If it isn't blocked by the NIC (gov. body, btw, I am a gov employee) I doubt whether anyone else would block it.

It is blocked on major ISPs like Airtel, MTNL & Reliance. Some ISPs may have not implemented the block yet, but may follow soon.

Re: Vimeo, DailyMotion, Pastebin, Xmarks & Major Torrent Sites Blocked in India

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Post by muon » Thu, May 17, 2012, 8:50 AM UTC

A few days back, customers of Reliance faced blocking of Torrent and Vimeo, which was later unblocked. Meanwhile, BSNL did not block any of these sites.

Re: Vimeo, DailyMotion, Pastebin, Xmarks & Major Torrent Sites Blocked in India

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Post by asto » Thu, May 17, 2012, 8:51 AM UTC

This is happening so often in India that it isn't even newsworthy anymore :(

For those outside India who are wondering, only Airtel (private) seems to have blocked sites. I have a BSNL (state owned) broadband connection and everything still loads fine for me.