Just rehost it / mirror it elsewhere..?
VLC media player banned in India
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#82It's fascinating that attempts at censorship often seem to quickly founder in incompetence of all things.
It turns out that actually banning the right things and not the wrong things seems simple on the surface and then turns out to be problem of nearly unsolvable scale and complexity, to the point where the system often falls down through the utter humiliation of how badly it is working.
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is mpv better than vlc?
I had an old laptop, on which VLC struggled with a video, but MPV worked fine. I like keep multiple of these critical applications around. Sometimes, for a use case, one works better than the other.
With old hardware, better use ffplay, to play a video direct from the command line with no overhead.
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#84It 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.
It is indeed funny to see nerds attempt to ascribe some factual, logical reasoning to why such actions are taken by certain politicians.
When you learn first hand how grossly ignorant of the internet many politicians really are, in almost any country, it can be quite the wake up call.
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Or MPC-HC if you are on Windows.
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some reports suggest that VLC Media Player has been blocked in the country because the platform was China-backed hacking group Cicada was using it for cyber attacks. Just a few months ago, security experts discovered that Cicada was using VLC Media Player to deploy a malicious malware loader as part of a long-running cyber attack campaign.
Incorrect, Cicada deployed a custom version of VLC which was hacked. Use VLC from our website and you’ll be safe.
Unrelated, do you have a stance on Ninite as a distribution method?
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#87Re: VLC media player banned in India
#88It 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.
Funny and painfully ubiquitous. Probably really well-paid monkey astrologers too.
governments write their own checks and set their own pay rate. You can bet they are quite rich.
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#89President 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.
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Somewhat cheeky but you're right. mpv is much better than VLC.