VideoLAN has issued a legal notice to Indian Gov for banning their website

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Post by ashleshbiradar » Tue, Oct 04, 2022, 6:39 AM UTC

VideoLAN has issued a legal notice to Indian Gov for banning their website
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Post by yakorevivan » Tue, Oct 04, 2022, 6:53 AM UTC

Awesome!! Governments should be held responsible for their actions. Way to go...

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Post by i67vw3 » Tue, Oct 04, 2022, 7:30 AM UTC

Some nameless bureaucrat must have been trigger happy while banning VLC URL.

Indian IT ministry is one if the worst ministries in the central government (from all governments formed until now)

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Post by puyoxyz » Tue, Oct 04, 2022, 7:56 AM UTC

For context: (not sure if this is right, just something I heard somewhere) the VLC website was banned because some people were distributing versions of VLC that included malware (not through the official VLC website, but through other websites), and for some reason instead of banning those unofficial websites they banned the official website

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Post by somecommit » Tue, Oct 04, 2022, 8:02 AM UTC

puyoxyz wrote: post #4

For context: (not sure if this is right, just something I heard somewhere) the VLC website was banned because some people were distributing versions of VLC that included malware ( not through the official VLC website, but through other websites), and for some reason instead of banning those unofficial websites they banned the official website

(conspiracy mode on:) Maybe the version with malware is linked to some high-earning scam company located in India

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Post by xupybd » Tue, Oct 04, 2022, 8:11 AM UTC

More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33077441

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Post by type0 » Tue, Oct 04, 2022, 8:22 AM UTC

puyoxyz wrote: post #4

For context: (not sure if this is right, just something I heard somewhere) the VLC website was banned because some people were distributing versions of VLC that included malware ( not through the official VLC website, but through other websites), and for some reason instead of banning those unofficial websites they banned the official website

Sounds like a good idea when you need to disseminate state trojans

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Post by jwilk » Tue, Oct 04, 2022, 8:36 AM UTC

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Post by lloydatkinson » Tue, Oct 04, 2022, 9:19 AM UTC

i67vw3 wrote: post #3

Some nameless bureaucrat must have been trigger happy while banning VLC URL. Indian IT ministry is one if the worst ministries in the central government (from all governments formed until now)

The general state of IT and software development in India tracks the same

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Post by phpisthebest » Tue, Oct 04, 2022, 9:47 AM UTC

puyoxyz wrote: post #4

For context: (not sure if this is right, just something I heard somewhere) the VLC website was banned because some people were distributing versions of VLC that included malware ( not through the official VLC website, but through other websites), and for some reason instead of banning those unofficial websites they banned the official website

>some reason instead

As with all things follow the money

Ask why would the scam capital of the world banned the legit site.