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Pirate Bay, IsoHunt Blocked In India

Posted by timothy on from the say-it-is-not-so dept.

New submitter unmole writes "It seems that India's Department of Telecom has instructed ISPs to block popular torrent trackers like the Pirate Bay and IsoHunt. Visitors now see a page (Screenshot) informing them that 'This site has been blocked as per instructions from Department of Telecom (DOT),' with no additional details. The Department of Telecom has not made any public announcement to this effect. This comes months after an Indian court gave the green signal for prosecuting social networking sites."

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  1. US pressure by Kotakee · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This has been made after countless amount of pressure from the US. I don't think there would be any reason for India to do it otherwise - they are shooting themselves in the leg by not allowing people to get free content (yes, by violating copyright). In the long run the country would be much better and richer if they gained foothold in technology and knowledge by any means necessary. Hell, this is how US become to be what they are now - by blatantly ignoring European copyrights. Of course, US doesn't want to allow that so they can stay in power.

    1. Re:US pressure by Kotakee · · Score: 4, Insightful

      In simpler terms for the readers in the grand land of America:

      - India has no reason to fight against pirates
      - US income mostly consists of copyrights and patents instead of actual goods
      - US constantly bullies the whole world so that their largest revenue would stay secure.
      - India would, long term, make their country much better and knowledgeable by letting their people pirate whatever they want, like tools for coding, operating systems, photoshop, whatever. Currently they have little money.

      Conclusion - US pressures India and other countries.

      About US violations of copyrights in the past. It's fully known that US blatantly ignored any and every copyright and law that Europe had back then. This is how they gained power by openly abusing other countries and their people.

  2. Let Them Eat Cake by lobiusmoop · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Given that the GDP of India in 2011 was $1389, compared with $48,387 for the USA, I really don't think sales of CD's and DVD's are going to sky-rocket after blocking torrent sites.

    --
    "I bless every day that I continue to live, for every day is pure profit."
  3. MAFIAA Fire!!! by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 4, Insightful

    MAFIAA Fire!!!

    A FireFox plugin to defeat blocking of PirateBay and other trackers.

    It's ONLY DNS, after all... Save all your cryin' for the Queen.

    --
    "Flyin' in just a sweet place,
    Never been known to fail..."