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

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Post by SquareWheel »

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.

None of those words have been misspelled...

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

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Post by Arun2009 »

RealGeek wrote: post #8
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.

My reliance connection allows TPB, Vimeo and Pastebin. I can confirm that at least vimeo and TPB were blocked till a few days ago when I checked.

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

#35

Post by biggfoot »

SquareWheel wrote: post #32
tutysara wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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.

None of those words have been misspelled...

'protect your move ...' Move? What move?

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

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Post by kshatrea »

Having a Tata Photon+ wireless (EVDO) connection, as well as an MTNL (Mumbai) broadband and a local internet provider (Hathway) in my home and/or at work, I haven't seen this in action. I am not sure whether Airtel and Reliance have any vested interest (far be me from it!), but Reliance is also the owner of BIG Entertainment and BIG Pictures (both owned by the younger Ambani), and the Mittals of Airtel have tied up with BigFlix. In other words, this may be a net non-neutrality move, not the first of its kind.

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

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kshatrea wrote: post #36

Having a Tata Photon+ wireless (EVDO) connection, as well as an MTNL (Mumbai) broadband and a local internet provider (Hathway) in my home and/or at work, I haven't seen this in action. I am not sure whether Airtel and Reliance have any vested interest (far be me from it!), but Reliance is also the owner of BIG Entertainment and BIG Pictures (both owned by the younger Ambani), and the Mittals of Airtel have tied up w…

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

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Post by kamaal »

Its getting ridiculous by the day, the way laws are being set here in India.

Recently the Supreme Court of India, has ordered that all cars must get rid of their sun films. Even tinted glasses of any tint percentage aren't allowed. This is because they think the kidnapping, terrorism and crimes against women will stop if the cars get rid of sun films and tint on windows. People are predicting heavy bribe business in early days after ban is enforced.

In another instance, the court has also ordered that heavy vehicles like lorries, trucks and other goods/passenger vehicles get speed regulators fixed preventing them from going above some level(I guess that is 60 Km) this is because some boy died in a over speeding accident. From what I hear, there is a strike planned to counter this.

Coming to Piracy, its ridiculous to think that they are going to stop piracy by banning torrent and video sites. In a country where pirated CD's are available on the footpath for the price of peanuts, Piracy isn't going to be that easy to solve. In fact of bulk of the piracy business happens, through those means. Very few people apart from the computer savvy ones know how to use torrents, or even know what torrents are.

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