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Outlander

I don't regularly download porn, but sometimes I do. Do the telephone people pay any attention to what people are downloading? And is it the same with all service providers?
Also, will the BSNL people be able to detect if I am downloading a porn movie, especially with Utorrent?
Thanx.

aruncse30

thats ur own intrest man.. if they decide.. then 99.99% ppl will be in prison..

.01 is me...

kronos047

Am another one who will be there.Dude don't worry about it

player

forget about these things no one is monitoring you in india, i think in India every network is open. as my elder brother lives in UAE he was saying that torrents are blocked here, the ISP doesn't allow this and social networking sites are also blocked!

and by the way i dont download these things, as it ruins you!!!

whitestar_999

don't worry as long as its for personal use.in any case bsnl won't spend its time & resources on things like porn when they have more important matters to handle.(read Rs.50000 bills contested in courts for wrong billing)

ashishtabla

Don't worry about all these issues...

Preetam

Dont worry man they will not catch you unless u share it with somebody else[like doing a business].And by the way as per my knowledge govt. do monitor our activities.They have a centre in Mysore[Karnataka].But dont worry if u dont do something like online froud u are safe

rasarat

I don't think that they'd care. If they did we'd all be fried. I read somewhere that 80% of all internet traffic is on account of porn .. maybe more. So I guess it just makes good business sense to allow it

Just stay away from illegal stuff

gardencityboy

Dont worry man
first of all you are using BSNL a government provider

they are not bothered about any thing you do, just pay your bill and be happy

It is very difficult to know what you are downloading when you are using peer to peer network download as the files are split to 100 odd segments.

You may be downloading a song or a movie when we tap the peer to peer network it would not make sense until the complete file is downloaded.

So chill and keep downloading

I agree with rasarat to be away form illegal stuff, like using some one else password with out the knowledge of the owner which could put u in problem

puchu

Hey friend, why do you waste your bandwidth on porn ?But thats your personal matter.

But police will never come to you.

Till anything you do on the net concerns you and only you,its not going to attract any trouble.

seking

If BSNL and Govt started taking interest on each everything we download, they will go out of business.

puchu

I agree.

parshanth

You Will Be in trouble if you access illegally Or No Problem Dont Worry Why else Are We All Interested in Internet...

Outlander

Arre yaar, answer the question; can the police track you? Can a file in Utorrent be tracked at all? One person (if I remember correctly) has replied that it cannot be, since the file is broken into hundreds of pieces, but then the police does catch people. So what I wish to ask is, how hi-tech is the police in India, if anyone knows the answer to this...

My question was a very general one, that is it safe to download porn in India? Are there cases when people are caught? I myself have been using the broadband for an year now, and no one has come to my home, but its always better to download if there is no risk. Actually I don't download porn much, maybe sometimes, but I download English movies a lot; now the thing is that even these (DVDRip) movies are not certified by the Indian censor board, so officially it is illegal; on torrent sites you keep hearing people complaining about their receiving warnings for downloading stuff.

If possible, post links to sites where there is information about Indian laws concerning this, and also their actual implementation (since there is a difference between there being a law and it being actually put into force; if you don't know, legally, anal sex is prohibited in India, and so even if you have it with your wife, the police can in theory come and arrest you ).

Its alright, don't waste your breath over this issue. Answer if you feel like it.

aruncse30

hello.. ur query is already addressed by many of ur members.. however ur above comments make me feel that u r trying to do some illegal dealing through internet.. if u r only porn downloader.. then go ahead.. else...jus move out...

parshanth

Donot Try To Be Scared of Something thats Nots existent.. Porn Cds Are Sold ............. Which Is illegal but if you burn CD For Personal Use It Is legal i think.............

Logik

I really don't think BSNL or any service provider do any thing if ur downloading PORN. but yeh, doing some serious stuff (best eg sending Email to Government/Institutions which can voilate things) is pretty harmful business, Unless ur expert at Security (hacking i mean).

PS - Some one said: Porn Pwns Internet.

Outlander

Hello ArunCSE30, or whatever your name is - no, I am not into doing anything really illegal, it's just that all of a sudden I started thinking about this.
And remember: this thread concerns you all; coz everyone downloads porn, so don't make it out as as if >I< am a pervert... Actually I don't even know enough about the net yet to use it for illegal purposes (I wouldn't be asking you people questions if I had the know-how of everything). I just download with Utorrent, and most of the time it is just English movies. The only reason why I ask all this is because out in the streets, in a laari, you can see people selling pirated CDs, and the policemen are standing right beside them; so why shouldn't we download away without any kind of fear. Like I said, its alright, stop wasting your breath over this issue now.

My original question was, whether the police in India are hi-tech or not, and no one really seems to know the answer to that. Anyway, I am giving a nice link:

Rediff Guide to the Net: Features: Dummies Guide to Porn Laws

aruncse30

as logik said.. downloading and burning porn's are not illegal.. but selling is illegal... im not trying to blaming u.. im jus trying to xplain the fact.. however.. if u still want to tesk police's skill.. i can give u 1 example.. few years back.. a doctor called prakash.. was running a porn site and police got him and now he is in lifetime prison.. if u still want to test it.. Open a site

whitestar_999

seems like you have searched well.i already posted the site you mentioned in my reply to your post at other site much before you posted here.however here is something which you will find interesting---
The three tests laid down in section 292 of the Indian Penal Code, on the other hand, are laid down
as follows:-
A book, pamphlet, paper, writing etc., shall be deemed to be obscene if it is:
1. lascivious;or
2. appeals to the prurient interest;or
3. if its effect or where it is more than one item, the effect of any one of the items, if taken as a
whole, is such as to rend to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely, having regard to all the
relevant circumstances to read, see or hear it
However, in practice it is the third test – ‘deprave and corrupt’ – which is most often resorted to for deciding on obscenity.It is also interesting to note that both making
pornography available as well as its possession are offences.To escape liability, the onus is on the
accused to prove lack of knowledge about the obscene or indecent contents of the material in question.