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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. Reliance Media has an upcoming Movie release by ami.one · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Reliance Media has an upcoming Movie release scheduled in 2 weeks.

    This happens every time just before a new movie release. It'll be back to normal after that. The few other ISPs are probably going through Reliance. None of the other large ISPs have done this.

    Its just to reduce the chance of a leak before the release, which has happened a few times in the past and is at times disastrous for the movie as it gets reviewed before opening day. Then if its good it gets downloaded a lot, while if its bad there's are less viewers turning up in theaters.

  2. Re:Not Blocked by mehrotra.akash · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The block is being done by Reliance on Reliance connections because a major movie released by Reliance is being released