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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 tutysara »

biggfoot wrote: post #17
emcl wrote: post #13

The really disturbing aspect of these blocking is the blatant manner in which websites which are known for their self-regulation (mainly for quality control) like Vimeo have been blacked out presumably by twisting the Chennai High court order against 'video sharing websites' by Copyright Labs, which seems to be a dummy company http://goo.gl/a1rjS . There is an alarming lack of internet literacy among the law makers a…

The site is quite ridiculous, so you are probably right about it being some dummy company.

It is not a dummy company, it should be a company with significant backing, may be it should have been put up in a hurry. I was expecting something of this sort when many politicians and their kin started acting in movies and buying stakes in production companies. From their contacts page I could see that they are based in chennai

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

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Post by biggfoot »

tutysara wrote: post #18
emcl wrote: post #13

The really disturbing aspect of these blocking is the blatant manner in which websites which are known for their self-regulation (mainly for quality control) like Vimeo have been blacked out presumably by twisting the Chennai High court order against 'video sharing websites' by Copyright Labs, which seems to be a dummy company http://goo.gl/a1rjS . There is an alarming lack of internet literacy among the law makers a…

"We Protect your move from spreading through Torrent" - They haven't even ran a spell checker on their site, can't stop laughing at these people.

"I worried more about piracy and it almost spoils everyone in the movie industry" ... only a man of such eloquence is capable of such otherwise impossible tasks ...

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

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Post by dnyanesh »

batpad wrote: post #7

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 jus…

I am on MTNL. I switched to Google DNS and all sites can be accessed again. Some days the Google DNS workaround was not working.

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

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Post by biggfoot »

tutysara wrote: post #21
biggfoot wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The site is quite ridiculous, so you are probably right about it being some dummy company.

It is not a dummy company, it should be a company with significant backing, may be it should have been put up in a hurry. I was expecting something of this sort when many politicians and their kin started acting in movies and buying stakes in production companies. From their contacts page I could see that they are based in chennai

Dummy meaning it is a facade put up by some vested interests. To my mind there is no way a genuine company can get this done without a legal (or should I say, illegal) backdoor.
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