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If you think ‘Internet’ is open to everyone, think twice though you live in India. Earlier Union Minister Kapil Sibal asked to remove controversial contents from social networking sites like facebook. It was highly criticised over the media but still Google, Facebook and twitter was asked to court to defend them.
Now similar thing is happening as of now almost all major ISPs has got the court order and has been asked to block 300+ sites as our exclusive inside sources from Indian ISPs informed us.
If its 300 today who knows it will be another 300+ tomorrow are we living in China? On March 29th, 2012 Madras High Court passed another ‘Jon Doe’ order in response to Chennai-based Copyright Labs for their two movies, Dhammu (Tamil) and 3 (Telugu). This was passed so silently that very few noticed it.
All these mess started in July 2011 when Reliance Entertainment obtained a court order from the Indian High Court which restrained many Internet services providers from offering, even indirectly, a pirate copy of the movie Singham. With this court order Reliance Entertainment asked all ISP to block many file-sharing sites including Mediafire, MegaUpload and Hotfile.Mediafire and similar file hosters are not simple pirated file sharing platform rather many people shares important files via these sites.
In March this year Kolkata High Court ordered ISPs to block 104 music sites which offer unauthorized music content. The court even ordered to block via DNS and IP address blocking, backed up with Deep Packet Inspection.
Why Vimeo is not working in India?
Vimeo is just another video sharing site like YouTube was blocked by ISP due to court order, but after soon it was unblocked by Reliance Communications (ISP of ADA Group) but it blocked player.vimeo.com so that even if you can load the website, no video can be played. Interestingly another legitimate video sharing site – DailyMotion is also blocked which now has been unlocked as told by inside sources from Indian ISPs informed us.
In United States anti-piracy does not go like this, there anti-piracy cells can’t even think about these actions ordered to ISPs by Indian courts. Here in India anti-piracy cells are not a big success, hence they and entertainment industries are lobbying to take the ultimate step – website blocking. This can never be supported.
As a reader or a common Internet user whats your take dont you think there is a loophole in our legal system and money muscled entertainment industries is misusing it over our legal system? Internet is free and open to all, and it will be!
List of all 300 sites which has been asked to be blocked in India
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In a reponse to protest against file sharing sites famous hacker group Anonymous posted two videos with their message to Indian Govt.
Ridhim April 11, 2013 at 5:40 pm
Tried couple of listed websites, seems to be working for me -_-
Sivilsivankutti DELL August 30, 2012 at 1:20 pm
KAPIL SAHEB A QUESTION FOR YOU , GOVERNMENT HAS LAUNCHED AKASH TAB FOR USING INTERNET EFFICIENTLY BUT NOW YOU ARE BLOCKING SITES AND MAKING UR TAB USELESS……..HATS OFF………. BUT CONGRESS IS NOT GOING TO STAY ANYMORE AND YOUR DECISIONS IS JUST A MERE DREAMS FOR YOU GUYS MIND IT….. WE ARE WATCHING EVERYTHING AND COLLECT EVERYTHING U CAN COLLECT IN THIS REMAINING YEARS BCOZ CONGRESS IS WILL BE NO MORE…… CONGRESS GO BACK……. WE WANT FREEDOM….. JAI HIND
Sivilsivankutti DELL August 30, 2012 at 1:14 pm
Government just wants to deviate users attention from the ongoing corruption in every govenment sector hence decision to ban sites is just a matter of support for the attack over nepal peoples and kapil saheb is always wise over this block block is kapil saheb mantra!!!!!!! still they are unable to do that , so poor
Mark Ackley June 7, 2012 at 12:21 pm
Not a good move by Indian Government
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Himanshu May 30, 2012 at 7:01 pm
What the Indian Government think of itself? They just want money money & money from each cell of Indian Man.
Ganesh May 28, 2012 at 5:46 pm
@Prithvi
Are you mad? Who are they to decide that? I take so many important tutorials from torrent sites. And if they are blocked how will India get free education? You should be ashamed. Now these sites are blocked. After a few days political and new sites will be blocked under the pretext of harmful information. Then all TV, internet and others media will be fully controlled by government, just like China.
@Dy4me +1
I think Prithvi is a communist.
@All
Congress down down. And we should protest! This censorship is like China and Egypt!
@SDee
You nailed it. Govt wants to control all media news, they control TV and Radio. But internet is becoming more and more a media like outlet (twitter, FB) so they want to control those too.
In fact a few ways to bypass the block:
> Try adding https : // instead of http : // . For example:
> Try some nice VPNs (some are paid)
> For torrent sites alone, try google cache. Then click magnet URL.
singh May 26, 2012 at 3:01 pm
BUS YEH HE KAAM REH GAYA TERE KO.
BSNL EVDO M B SITE OPEN HO RAHE HAI. JA KER DE BSNL K AGAINST B CASE….
Rajesh Kumar May 26, 2012 at 2:10 pm
download sites not only contains only songs and videos… it has many useful informations also…why this govt. dont know this…What a stupid decision they have taken…we have power supply problem, inflation, petrol price, all goods price hiked, tax increased….we people are the fool to read this give comments about the govt.. nothing will happen…i dont know what to say…
aditya iyer May 26, 2012 at 11:51 am
@Harsh Saini
+1
Harsh Saini May 26, 2012 at 9:47 am
We dont need to censor the INTERNET we need to censor the PARLIAMENT.
RDB May 26, 2012 at 8:01 am
If you see Anonymous list of websites blocked by Reliance Communications, you will find it blocked some of orkut/facebook groups and profiles who are among protesting AIR India Pilots. It means piracy is just a camouflage, Govt basically likes to control internet.
kawal May 26, 2012 at 6:18 am
Now i think its enough, first they banned SMS, Now call rates going to hike, petrol already burning, and this foolish politicians wants to control internet, this ppl want to hijack our freedom of speech, what more we can expect from a moron minister Sibal ?
should May 26, 2012 at 1:15 am
Goverment should think bringing blackmoney , fight correcption, fight inflation, dome something on devaluation of money, rising petrol, rotting grain, telecom pectrum, unemployment industrial growth falling to the low rather then thinking of these piracy issues who are benefiting only few handful.
should May 26, 2012 at 1:07 am
@Aiswarya R L
so TRUE there would be nothing to download.
akhilesh May 25, 2012 at 10:41 pm
Example-1- CURREPTION IS EVERYWHERE
EVERYONE KNOW ABOUT IT illegall
THEN WHY ITS IS Present?
example-2 Oprater’s Eating Balence from custmore’s
by activating VAS services its illigal
tell me any penality for it
This is oprater’s revnue trick is using 90% Oprater’s
example3- Free gprs also is illgal
but search “free 3g” in google
u will find many working trick
30% user’s are using it
tell me which user paying penality fo it
Jagannath May 25, 2012 at 9:56 pm
All sites are accessible from an MTNL Broadband connection
V May 25, 2012 at 9:32 pm
@SDee
True Nikhil, Sdee.
Govt. just wants to control all things and thats the stupid thing.
By the constitution we are given freedom but government wants to take away our freedom.
Its just a hint how they want to control all information.
So in future- We will require permission of our government to piss in your own toilet.
Amit May 25, 2012 at 8:38 pm
blocking a whole website by ISPs is illegal and in contravention of IT Act. For illegal blocking of a legitimate website, ISP could face criminal charges punishable with 3 years of imprisonment and a penalty of Rs. 5 lacs. By blocking the whole website a user is denied of legitimate access to fully legal content. Such orders generally apply to the SPECIFIC URLs that host offending material and NOT THE ENTIRE DOMAIN. Any affected party, including a user, can sue an ISP for damages worth Rs. 5 crore for every instance of violation under Section 43(i) of the IT Act.
Achu May 25, 2012 at 8:19 pm
don’t take that simple…. Now its responsibility of ISP to block these sites from consumers. So if IP blocking fails they may take some other strong actions like suing customers for illegally accessing sites and there by making loss to them( court may ask isp for penality if they fails to block)
Aiswarya R L May 25, 2012 at 8:15 pm
So …4G and FTTH will be a failure in india … With that speed we dont have anything to download…
Aiswarya R L May 25, 2012 at 8:09 pm
Is there any problem like leagal action for consumers if they use these sites with some proxy service ?
akhilesh May 25, 2012 at 7:25 pm
block all ip & sites n oprater’s
bcoz only blocking some sites
there is no any problem in open/streaming thease site’s
u can unblock by using proxy/VPN
then what gov will do???
=
reliance evdo blocking hosting site’s everytime when any movie release’s
by using VPN ..unblock everything..download anything ..
opraters’ cheat to custmore’s
costmore cheat to oprater’s & this will continue..
Saptarshi Roy May 25, 2012 at 7:14 pm
Hey RDB, what is the logic behind blocking XMarks? It has got nothing to do with piracy. I can access the website though.
SDee May 25, 2012 at 5:10 pm
@DATTA – when u gonna start worrying ,when thay start to watch n control ur mails n personal info..
having an OPTION does’nt get rid of real problem here..
What about freedom of speech ,if F***** goverment will gonna decide what we speak or how we ACT…
Just bcoz thinking like urs who think that its not their Concern,but think about the future this is just the beginning of how Govt. wants to control all the information….
Nikhil May 25, 2012 at 3:54 pm
using hotspot shield software u can open any blocked website, any where in the world even in china…
kavint May 25, 2012 at 2:13 pm
dear readers,
i hinted about this past 3 months, saying that torrents will be blocked.. there was severe criticism of my view saying it can never happen..
though happy to see a thread on this, i too feel the heat…
luckily to me extra torrent was restored after 5 days block, yet
i fear this will not be lifted soon for 2 reasons..
1. all unlimited plan holders use the internet for heavy downloading especially torrents, the companies feel these customers as loss makers whether they are loyal or not…
2.cloud services will be a flop business if torrents and media sharing survive…
apple and others are already into bussiness…
so
in India having a 3g/ 4g never matters when nothing is available to download..
what fun…..
there is only one chance to lift the ban if we shed off unlimited plans and go for lowest price plan or prepaid 3g/4g, causing heavy loss… let them learn the value of unlimited plans….
mks May 25, 2012 at 1:55 pm
Well said and i still acess all the site with simple google tricks
novicefreak1 May 25, 2012 at 1:42 pm
thanks for useful tips!!!!!!hope this may not be requried!!(Hpe the sites are nt blocked)
mydream May 25, 2012 at 1:38 pm
pls click sensongs com(blocked site)many sites follow them
SCrAzy May 25, 2012 at 1:04 pm
This ban is one of the stupidest moves I have seen.. These stupid bans can be circumvented by a few clicks… People who want to indulge in piracy will do it no matter what…
This is plain bullying by the government .. If piracy is the problem then why not implement rules to stop it at it roots….
There are hundreds of things that can be done to stop piracy before the copy even reaches the internet…. Just bcos the production houses fail to curb piracy at their own level they are moving to ban torrent sites as a whole!!! which is ridiculous…
Just because ONE ROADSIDE VENDOR at the corner of a crowded market street is selling pirated movies does not mean the government can ban the public from visiting the entire street!!!
D Datta May 25, 2012 at 1:01 pm
I do not think it will matter to any tech savvy users, although it will take 2 minutes more to download them. Download a VPN software like Cyber Ghost VPN, open a torrent site like piratebay.se and then click on Magnet link, and add it to torrent client like utorrent, then close VPN and download as usual.
So be cool guys there is nothing to worry.
Jagannath May 25, 2012 at 12:58 pm
Most of the listed sites are blocked from my Airtel Broadband…
Harsh May 25, 2012 at 12:49 pm
Bhai logo bsnl evdo se sari site khul rahi hai…..sarkari aadesh sarkari company nahi manti hai…wo bs reliance ne isliye block ki hai kyuki wo khud movies banate hain…..
DB May 25, 2012 at 12:43 pm
@Tharun George
@ THARUN
Good for you! Give me the number of ASIANET so I can file a case against them in DOT !!
>> I am able to open all blocked site. My ISP is Aisianet a regional cable service and has not blocked any sites so far.
Munna May 25, 2012 at 12:34 pm
We say India is a democracy. but these acts are not part of Democracy. For a problem a solution should be given which is not affecting others. But this kind of decision is not a goo one.
Esmail May 25, 2012 at 12:31 pm
MTNL mumbai has already blocked all these sites since more than ten days back. Its simply the pressure that is being put by major Film production houses who are running in losses coz they are not being able to recover their money due to lack of adequate viewers and paucity in box office collections for which they blame P2P sharing sites like torrents for piracy and illegal distribution of copyrighted material including movies and songs. What they fail to understand is the fact that the reason for decline of viewers for their movies has been an after effect of single screen movie cinema halls being converted to Multiplexes with a three to four fold increase in ticket rates which makes it out of reach of the middle class man’s budget to watch a movie in the multiplex (The multiplexes have to pay lesser taxes than single screen theaters and yet charge higher for tickets to boost their profits)
On the other hand there is competition in the telecom sector to provide lower tariffs for data plans with faster download speeds and greater volume of data, with this being handy and easy availability of the movies on p2p sharing sites the common man is bound to choose that as a means to obtain his doze of entertainment. This move of the government will not be successful in deterring the consumers from sharing files online, for when one door closes another opens, its just a never ending Cat and Mouse play.
Esmail May 25, 2012 at 11:52 am
MTNL mumbai has already blocked all these sites since more than ten days back, but then they had blocked songspk.pk as well when the court had ordered so a few months back, but now its fully accessible. Its simply the pressure that is being put by major Film production houses who are running in losses coz they are not being able to recover their money due to lack of adequate viewers and paucity in box office collections for which they blame P2P sharing sites like torrents for piracy and illegal distribution of copyrighted material including movies and songs. What they fail to understand is the fact that the reason for decline of viewers for their movies has been an after effect of single screen movie cinema halls being converted to Multiplexes with a three to four fold increase in ticket rates which makes it out of reach of the middle class man’s budget to watch a movie in the multiplex (The multiplexes have to pay lesser taxes than single screen theaters and yet charge higher for tickets to boost their profits)
On the other hand there is competition in the telecom sector to provide lower tariffs for data plans with faster download speeds and greater volume of data, with this being handy and easy availability of the movies on p2p sharing sites the common man is bound to choose that as a means to obtain his doze of entertainment. This move of the government will not be successful in deterring the consumers from sharing files online, for when one door closes another opens, its just a never ending Cat and Mouse play.
Sidhartha May 25, 2012 at 11:47 am
Way to go!!! Now atleast we will get a feel of staying in a developed nation like china.. worlds biggest democracy crumbling like a pack of cards.. first freedom of speech and expression on social networking and now this.. If you dont want bad comments on social sites about u r self stop doing shit and do something positive
Suman May 25, 2012 at 11:30 am
Some goods torrent sites are going to be blocked. People who prepared the list either know something what other internet user doesn’t or they do not understand the internet
Upesh May 25, 2012 at 11:01 am
you are correct , i too wasted lots of money in talkies and internet data in movies downloading. @Damn it!
rk May 25, 2012 at 10:53 am
Why not gmail . I hv seen sm ppl sahring ebooks through it.
Anil May 25, 2012 at 10:46 am
Kangress ke raj mai sab kuch chalta hai.
Aur vote do kangress ko. Maybe their policy manifesto secretly says that they’ll turn india into china or saudi arabia.
rk May 25, 2012 at 10:41 am
To be extra sure also block Youtube, Gmail, Facebook, twitter. some ppl sharing illegal docs through gmail as well. WTF This govt shld go.
Saurabh May 25, 2012 at 10:41 am
This would have been done way before. But it’s better late than never. It will help to curb menace of piracy to some extent but not completely.
Sakey May 25, 2012 at 10:39 am
I was planning to make a move out of my ISP the day when Vimeo stopped working now i know the reason thanks for bring out any idea when it will get unblocked ?
Tajinder Singh May 25, 2012 at 10:37 am
I m using bsnl service.no website is blocked yet
Upesh May 25, 2012 at 10:02 am
Actually court alone(should order govt to pass order to do blocking) can’t do these things without listening from websites they ordered to block as these sites contents are not totally pirated(they where simple file sharing sites but some of us uploaded the pirated content too) , but since the so called ‘law’ in our India is ‘brought to us’ by some billionaires hence we are suffering and cannot get results for our cases so quickly from court as in this case, Also our Maximum of IPC laws (for example land acquisition law old as well as new 2011 )is from British origin which Britishers used to suck us during Pre-freedom era and our politician found these laws very useful for their post freedom ruling power. we should now fight in court to convince them that this country is not China and so these sites can only be asked to remove the pirated content not total ban in free India. Also our Govt should have to slap courts from time to time.
AP May 25, 2012 at 9:55 am
@Prithvi
Besides this, Vimeo is a perfectly legitimate website but might not have the resources or the intent to fight back against a moronic Indian government and a judicial process that seems to be taking too much at face value.
AP May 25, 2012 at 9:52 am
@Prithvi
Yeah? How is the decision taken on blocking any site? Tomorrow, if this whole thing progresses to someone raiding your home and locking it down because you have some illegally copied material, would you continue to have the same opinion?
What if some company wants to shut down your competing business by falsely accusing you of copyright theft? Will the same opinion hold?
Anuj Mhatre May 25, 2012 at 9:48 am
This is bullshit… We shud not entertain the govt. We shud protest
Pratul May 25, 2012 at 9:30 am
India provides to its citizens the fundamental rights these include individual rights, such as equality before law, freedom of speech and expression, freedom of association and peaceful assembly, freedom to practice religion. The action performed above is clearly the breach of this fundamental rights of citizenship of India. Honourable High Court is directing ISPs to block sites under pressure from film lobby. Unfortunately the cyber law in india is such poor that they use the easiest of the form to enforce this, outside india there are active cells to monitor and remove objective content from internet. It looks that india will go china way and we will be forced to use vpns as in china to unblock site content that are blocked.
irfan May 25, 2012 at 9:05 am
this is all due to the pressure of the american govt india and all other nations of the world are behaving like puppets of the american govt companies are launging 3G and 4G services promising the customer to deliver data at 1Gbps but what the we are going to do with this speed without these file sharing sites we dont need this blazing speed to browse facebook and social networking sites this can be done simply at 128kbps
Dj wana May 25, 2012 at 9:04 am
Trai n dot suckssssssssssss
madhu prasad May 25, 2012 at 8:57 am
Forget about US, just look to the neighbour nepal. Copyright laws are much stricker than india and are effective to save the local music and videos from piracy. Internet sites are not blocked there.
Steve May 25, 2012 at 8:27 am
Just use any VPN… Sites from all over the world will open.
Chinmoy May 25, 2012 at 8:23 am
K proxy allowing them all .
Damn it! May 25, 2012 at 8:09 am
We need insurance for watching movie
After watching the movie and if it is a crap one(as always) will you give a refund?
Watching movie is gambling. BAN MOVIES
Damn it! May 25, 2012 at 7:51 am
i didn’t know many many of these sites. Thank you so much for the info.
Rohan Singh May 25, 2012 at 7:50 am
This is totally bullshit. where is the democracy..? What we will do with unlimited plans then..? Reading news..? or Checking mails..? or Social networking..? Will this be enough for unlimited plans..? I think only 100MB plans would be sufficient. No use of investing more money to internet plans…now let us see how ISP’s are going to earn. Let this govt go to hell. I feel like using so much of slang now for our Govt but i am thinking if this site is also blocked then….
Suvajit May 25, 2012 at 7:21 am
@RajeeV
++++++1………….. I superlike ur cmnt………………..
Arun May 25, 2012 at 6:53 am
But, all of those websites work for me.I am using Google DNS. This might have been the reason.Can anyone tell me whether the ISPs could block those websites even after chaning DNS?
Tharun George May 25, 2012 at 6:13 am
I am able to open all blocked site. My ISP is Aisianet a regional cable service and has not blocked any sites so far.
Dy4me May 25, 2012 at 4:09 am
@Prithvi
Prithvi, Why dont u go love in China is you like a dictatorship so much? We have certain freedoms. May be You use torrent sites for illegal purposes. That doesnt mean that are not used for perfectly legal uses. If thats the case why dont we ban Knifes. They are used to kill people. They must be banned! they have no other use other than to kill people! Do you understand your folly.
Prithvi May 25, 2012 at 2:34 am
It’s justified. The copyright bill has just been passed and there should not be distribution of copyrighted stuff unless the patent right holders / producers themselves want ‘em to be passed on thru’ the internet. The above sites seem to be culpable of copyright violation.
RajeeV May 25, 2012 at 2:17 am
In India we will shout . but the nxt day we will all forget abt it