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    Thumbs down AIRTEL Blocking CyberLockers

    Are AIRTEL users able to visit any of these webistes:
    RapidShare.com
    Mediafire.com
    MegaUpload.com
    Hotfile.com
    SendSpace.com
    Fileserve.com
    MegaVideo.com
    VideoBB.com
    Novamov.com
    Movshare.net
    Filesonic.com
    Putlocker.com
    Depositfiles.com

    According to reports, File-sharing related Internet Censorship has set it's footsteps in India: Check TorrentFreak for details.

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    8File sharing websites have been blocked in India since yesterday on some ISPs because Reliance BIG Pictures got a “John Doe” order allowing them to service cease and desist notices on movie pirates pirating the film Singham, Mahesh Rangathantan, COO at Reliance Entertainment, told MediaNama. Singham is releasing in theatres tomorrow. What is unique about this order through, according to Big Pictures VP (Music and Anti Piracy) Sanjay Tandon, is that it also covers Internet Service Providers, and not just people selling pirated DVDs or cable operators. “A John Doe order is given against unidentified people, because the copyright owner doesn’t know who is going to infringe. We anticipate that certain entities are going to infringe, and the Delhi High Court has granted us a John Doe order,” Tandon said.

    Yesterday, Airtel Broadband users reported that several file sharing websites like MediaFire had been inaccessible,and a notice was displayed, stating that the site has been blocked on request of Department of Telecom. A traceroute search suggested that the block was instituted at Flag Telecom. Our readers also indicated that with certain other ISPs – Zylog and MTNL Triband – the file sharing sites were not accessible.

    Tandon said that the order doesn’t necessitate blocking an entire website, but only that ISPs should not make the film Singham accessible: the order only pertains to the access of the film. “Our only appeal with this order is that you cannot make the film available through your network. It’s a matter for the ISPs to look into,because it becomes their liabiltiy.”

    Our Take: What About The Rights Of The Customer?

    So here is what appears to have happened: the court order apparently allows Reliance Big Pictures to ask ISPs to ensure that Singham isn’t pirated, and since the only the ISPs cannot ensure or monitor individual instances of piracy, they appear to have gone ahead and blocked the filesharing sites, probably deciding that it’s better to be safe than sorry, and ended up throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

    This reminds me of the 2006 blogger block, wherein instead of blocking sub-domain pages, on orders of DoT, the ISPs completely blocked blogger, typepad etc.

    In this case, by blocking access to these sites, the ISPs appear to have ensured blocking of legitimate file sharing as well.

    What can be done about it? Frankly, I don’t know. The question that you have to ask yourself is – as a customer of an ISP, what are your rights, and is the ISP liable for preventing your access to the world wide web? The court order in this case apparently doesn’t direct ISPs to block filesharing sites in their entirety. By going beyond the apparent mandate of the court order, aren’t your rights being infringed upon? What gives an ISP the freedom to do that?

    Unfortunately, unless someone takes an ISP to court, I suppose we will never know.

    http://www.medianama.com/2011/07/223...a-court-order/

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    I think you can use the tunnel/proxy servers to bypass, though there will be some bottle neck

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    Talking This is crazy thing - karan expertantipiracy

    This is real crazy, by blocking 10 or 15 sites, its impossible to stop piracy. Mostly downloaders are techies, every one knows that how to use a web based proxy, if the site is blocked in current ip, people can access using proxies, for example Hide My Ass! Free Proxy and Privacy Tools - Surf The Web Anonymously is such a service, This being used by so many corporate employees for accessing facebook, etc.

    Than doing kiddish things, reliance should think some thing technological, this is like a dad scolding a kid, beta dont go out, bhoot pakdega , hahaha

    Wake up india, we are far ahead of other countries, prove some thing technical and not these small things

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    Proxy sites dont let you download a 5gb file and its surf the web anonymously not download a 5gb file anonymously.
    I appreciate Reliance's point of view but this is no way to stop piracy.

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    Thumbs up you can use vpn

    Well using VPN, you can use your computer as normal, but it will be behind proxy, there are paid vpn and free vpn available. I have used this tons of time

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    Yeh paid VPN's would let you download large files.

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    Post Watermarking is a much better measure

    Instead of doing all this stuff, i think they should watermark the movie so they can trace back the theatre where which the video is recorded. And also all the theatres should be satellite linked to prevent recording at late nights.

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