My guess of what would have happened is this: Some movie producer tried to find places in which their movies were pirated, and did google search and made a lis

My guess of what would have happened is this: Some movie producer tried to find places in which their movies were pirated, and did google search and made a list and did a court case. Now some random judge who doesn't understand/like internet asked the sites to be blocked. And videolan.org was middle in that list and it got overlooked. Then they handed that list to ISP. Few ISP found the issue and decided not to block it, but many blocked it without looking.