[x-pubpol] Internet censorship in India

[Joly MacFie]

(Via Dave Farber)


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From: *Niranj Vaidyanathan*
Date: Friday, May 18, 2012
Subject: Internet censorship in India
To: dave at farber.net


Hi Dave

For IP, if you wish.

Yesterday, Copyright labs, a company supporting Indian movie industry (
http://www.copyrightlabs.in/), made the news on social networking sites.
The reason : They got a John Doe order on almost all Indian ISPs to block
Vimeo, Dailymotion, Pastebin, and most of the popular sites that distribute
torrents or magnet links.

The company says that the reason was to prevent piracy of a couple of South
Indian movies. Details, including a copy of the John Doe order, is
available on this website : http://bit.ly/Kfyftk

On twitter, someone representing the company and the CEO of the company
(presumably the same person, based on writing style), have been responding
to general public after the details were published as to why this was done.
They claim they had requested for blocking specific URLs, but the ISPs had
gone ahead and blocked access to the website instead and that they are
working with ISPs to block only specific URLs. As of this morning, access
to all these websites remains blocked from India. [ Copyright Labs on
Twitter -  https://twitter.com/#!/copyrightlabs and the CEO -
https://twitter.com/#!/harishramlh ]

Anonymous (possibly the Indian arm, and in response to the censorship) took
down the website of Indian Supreme Court yesterday, which made the news on
mainstream media.

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Niranj



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