Chief of eBay's Indian Site Arrested, Released

An anonymous reader writes "As reported, Avinash Bajaj, the CEO of Baazee.com, the Indian subsidiary of eBay, was arrested by the Indian police for distributing pornography. What really seems to have happened is that two high school students from Delhi Public School filmed themselves having oral sex, and this video was distributed through Delhi by email. Some time later, Ravi Raj Singh, a college student from IIT Delhi, offered his VCD of the 157-second clip for sale on Baazee. Avinash Bajaj has now been released on bail, but his U.S. passport is still impounded. AP report here." In reaction to the scandal, SoumyaRay writes, "the Indian government is planning a law based on the DMCA that would establish the responsibility of the corporation when dealing with copyrighted materials. The law 'would deal with four categories of functions by a service provider: transitory communications, system caching, storage of information on systems or networks and information location tools.' Does this differ in any major way with the DMCA? What is being overlooked and what is the potential for abuse? What would you propose?"

Comments

+5 informative for the .torrent

[Anonymous Coward]

someone's gotta have it

Re:+5 informative for the .torrent

[kaedemichi255]

why don't you check suprnova.org?

Potential for abuse:

[LMariachi]

What is being overlooked

A link to the .torrent?

Even more...

[EvilStein]

Reuters story said that the girl was sent to Canada, and the guy was in deeeep trouble at home. Both of them were students at a private school, too.

So this can only mean one thing - Hot Indian babes *do* put out!

Can I outsource myself to India now? :D

Sheesh...

[TLLOTS]

"...two high school students from Delhi Public School filmed themselves having oral sex..."

"a college student from IIT Delhi, offered his VCD of the 157-second clip"

157 seconds... sheesh, they really need to learn to take their time and enjoy it ;)

Re:My proposal

[SirBruce]

>Living in China, I can tell you that people in
>general are happier here, unless they are very
>poor.

So, rich people in China are happier than poor people.

>It seems to be that the richer you get, the less
>happy you get.

Wait, so rich people in China are LESS happy than the poor people?

>At least this has been the recent trend in the
>West, and there are signs of it also in booming
>China.

Wait, so in China, rich people were happier than poor people, but now that their richer, they're less happy?

Bruce

that does not make sense

[PMuse]

From one of the articles: Explaining the rationale for such a law, a senior government official said, "In the MMS case the objectionable clip was put on the website by someone who had access to it and not necessarily the person behind it. It was an infringement of the copyright. Moreover, despite the incident becoming a public knowledge the clip was not removed."

What a pathetic attempt to use a media event / scandal to promote something unrelated to it! No one in India or elsewhere is worried about copyright here. The boy certainly hasn't made a claim for lost revenues! Whoever the shill is who is claiming that the MMS incident justifies an Indian DMCA ought to be embarrassed to be selling this bunk. There really is only one thing to say to an argument like this:

"Ladies and gentlemen this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk, but Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now, think about that. That does not make sense! Why would a Wookiee--an eight foot tall Wookiee--want to live on Endor with a bunch of two foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense!

"But more important, you have to ask yourself, what does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense!

"Look at me, I'm a lawyer defending a major record company, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca. Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense. None of this makes sense!

And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room . . . does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense. If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests."