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Unblock Vimeo, Dailymotion, Rapidshare, Torrent links in India

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Re: Unblock Vimeo, Dailymotion, Rapidshare, Torrent links in India

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Post by melvinng »

melvinng wrote: post #3
MrSourz wrote: post #2

How exactly does that site "unblock" them?

Just input the link into the box, or use the bookmark bar.

So we have several datacentres around the world, and when users input a link. A server will take the task and try to download the content on the web, based on trial & error and user's response it learns how to download from a particular website.

Re: Unblock Vimeo, Dailymotion, Rapidshare, Torrent links in India

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Post by arihant »

I am in India right now. None of the sites you mention are blocked. Am I missing something here? It also looks no different than any other proxy site.

Moreover, your automatic video extraction part might actually break TOS of many sites you claim to support, specially if you play the extracted video from your own UI and/or host it on your servers, unless you are getting the video from a provisioned API and it allows such use.

Re: Unblock Vimeo, Dailymotion, Rapidshare, Torrent links in India

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Post by melvinng »

arihant wrote: post #7

I am in India right now. None of the sites you mention are blocked. Am I missing something here? It also looks no different than any other proxy site. Moreover, your automatic video extraction part might actually break TOS of many sites you claim to support, specially if you play the extracted video from your own UI and/or host it on your servers, unless you are getting the video from a provisioned API and it allows…

I think only Airtel users in Bangalore and Delhi are affected: http://gadgets.ndtv.com/shownews.aspx?id=GADEN20120203409&#3...
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