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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
#42Let's hit them where it hurts. Sign and share this petition.. http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/i-will-vote-against-the-c... ..and we can announce that we're a vote bank that can hurt them.
How does this help? At all?
Re: Vimeo, DailyMotion, Pastebin, Xmarks & Major Torrent Sites Blocked in India
#43I am using airtel in New Delhi and the sites seem to be working. specifically checked vimeo, xmarks, pastebin.
This is from our leased line via Airtel, so it seems that corporates are exempt from the ban.
Re: Vimeo, DailyMotion, Pastebin, Xmarks & Major Torrent Sites Blocked in India
#44They only blocked http access, it looks like.
Sites that support https still work.
I guess the ISPs are only sniffing port 80?
Re: Vimeo, DailyMotion, Pastebin, Xmarks & Major Torrent Sites Blocked in India
#45A 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.
I think that the reason behind this block-unblock cycle that reliance goes through every time a movie of theirs is released is quite simple. They do not want to block these sites permanently because then they lose an edge in the competition with airtel.
On the other hand whenever a movie from Reliance entertainment comes out they want to avoid the cams to spread for the first few weeks so they block these sites. Once the first couple of weeks have passed they undo the blocks.
Re: Vimeo, DailyMotion, Pastebin, Xmarks & Major Torrent Sites Blocked in India
#46They only blocked http access, it looks like. Sites that support https still work. I guess the ISPs are only sniffing port 80?
No, It means the people who are blocking sites don't know how to do it properly.
Having said that, this is hardly surprising.
Re: Vimeo, DailyMotion, Pastebin, Xmarks & Major Torrent Sites Blocked in India
#47They only blocked http access, it looks like. Sites that support https still work. I guess the ISPs are only sniffing port 80?
At least vimeo is still blocked on port 443.
Re: Vimeo, DailyMotion, Pastebin, Xmarks & Major Torrent Sites Blocked in India
#48Its 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…
Time to start distributing tor.
Though I am frankly amazed that pastebin was blocked. I know what its used for... everything. It is about as nefarious as a chalk board. When are those getting banned?
Re: Vimeo, DailyMotion, Pastebin, Xmarks & Major Torrent Sites Blocked in India
#49They only blocked http access, it looks like. Sites that support https still work. I guess the ISPs are only sniffing port 80?
At least vimeo is still blocked on port 443.
I think that's because they redirect to http?
The Pirate Bay works on https (I love that they have legit certs)
Re: Vimeo, DailyMotion, Pastebin, Xmarks & Major Torrent Sites Blocked in India
#50Its 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…
Time to start distributing tor. Though I am frankly amazed that pastebin was blocked. I know what its used for... everything. It is about as nefarious as a chalk board. When are those getting banned?
Basically anything that makes content sharing easy, becomes a threat to the government.
The thing is Radio, TV and Papers are already bought by the government. Its paid media, and media that is isn't paid is generally killed.
Internet is a dangerous beast. No centralized control, amazingly rich content can be shared seamlessly. This is dangerous to the government. That is why there is so much commotion.