Freedom Of Internet at Stake So far 300 Sites Blocked in IndiaIf 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.

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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.