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Indian Government Blocks Leading File-Sharing Services
- braindead_in 15y agoIt won't work. There are hundreds of other file sharing websites you can't block them all.
- rrrazdan 15y agoIts not working. I can access the sites from both Airtel and BSNL here in Delhi.
- SureshG 15y agoIt's not true! I can access all the sites mentioned. I am using Airtel!
- alexhektor 15y agothis seems to be not true for the whole country.., if you're from India, please post if you're having those issues or not!
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- packetslave 15y agono, please don't.
- kang 15y agoCan anyone state any links to legal documents for the same? Anyways, I just tried 3 ISPs. (BSNL,Tata and Airtel) All links are accessible.
- shrikant 15y agoMTNL users report blocking, but only if they use the full web address of a site – omitting www unblocks the site in question. ...and this is why blocking sites in India will NEVER work. They're just far too incompetent.
- intended 15y agoOnly for now though, I fear that over time they will improve, like a virus evolving. Then again lets see if an announcement comes out. It may just be the ISPs screwing up, or a whole host of other problems. I hope its not the Govt though.
- yuvipanda 15y agoTrue - remember the blogspot blocking fiasco a few years ago? Edit: Details: http://jace.zaiki.in/2006/07/17/blogspot-blocked-by-indian-isps http://jace.zaiki.in/2006/07/17/blogspot-blocked-by-indian-i...
- mootothemax 15y agoThey're just far too incompetent. Disagree, I think it's a case of being far too competent; I bet the spec came in listing the sites without subdomains, and the developers have completed exactly what was asked of them. Which must be annoying for the client, but if this is the case, more fool them.
- theballwatcher 15y agoCouldn't access mediafire alone this morning, on Airtel.The rest seem to be reachable.
- johnx123-up 15y ago"It's FUD and spam from hayai.in" - my Indian friend says so.
- anand21 15y agoThe ban is varying from state to state.Some of my friends having Airtel as their ISP can't get through but some can. No problems coming with other ISP's
- meow 15y agoSeems all sites are accessible using Airtel... Even if there is such an order from DoT, I seriously doubt the competency of the people involved to actually implement it...
- manyad 15y agoI can access all sites.
- ajhai 15y agoWhen I tried opening megaupload last night, I was thrown a blocked page by my ISP (Reliance). Upon checking the page source, I noticed an iframe content that redirected my request to the blocked message. Playing around with the iframe source, I found that my ISP is using Netsweeper Business software for blocking the file sharing services and the control panel is publicly accessible (http://ipaddress:8080/webadmin/start/ http://ipaddress:8080/webadmin/start/ is the link for my ISPs netsweeper control panel login page. If you're lucky enough to crack the password, you can unblock any website you want ;)). I don't really think there is any need for blocking file sharing services in India and I feel that these are just the desperate attempts by the so called DoT and the govt. to say that they're doing something.
- omouse 15y agoDon't they have more important stuff to do than pander to the interests of corporations?
- suprgeek 15y agoThis is apparently the cause http://www.medianama.com/2011/07/223-files-sharing-sites-blocked-in-india-because-reliance-big-pictures-got-a-court-order/ http://www.medianama.com/2011/07/223-files-sharing-sites-blo... A movie producer has got a court order requiring ISPs to block file sharing of a PARTICULAR movie...(singham). The ISPs have blocked the entire sites en-mass.
- meow 15y agoLooks like Reliance aims to be the small brother of RIAA. They already have an image as crooks among consumers.. this will only make it worse.. don't know who to blame, courts for giving a blanket order or over eager ISPs.
- dimmuborgir 15y agoJust working fine. Airtel, Bangalore.
- princeverma 15y agoSame here, Airtel Mumbai
- evolution 15y agoand this kills my weekend project minutesbox.com in India.
- arihant 15y agoWorks fine on Airtel.
- aangjie 15y agoWorking fine here. BBNL Bangalore.
- g123g 15y agoI think Reliance might be the most eager to implement this ban as they have interest in entertainment business thru BIG cinemas and AdLabs. But still what a bunch of idiots this govt is. Trying to show its stupidity to the whole world. Rather than trying to do something useful like bringing billions of dollars of black money stashed abroad they are wasting their time on these useless things.
- rajpaul 15y agoThe excuses people come up with to justify pirating make me smile.
- reliancedaddy 15y agoReliance broadband+, Reliance 3G banned filesharing sites,so now no more Karlo duniya mutthi me.. but i have bsnl 3g and its working fine so, ma chudaye janta jab apna kam banta.. Note: Never buy reliance
- sidi 15y agoAll major file-sharing services blocked :( ISP: Reliance, Ahemdabad