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India Threatens 3-Year Jail Sentences For Viewing Blocked Torrents (intoday.in)
"It is official now. The punishment for rape is actually less..." writes an anonymous Slashdot reader, who adds that "Some users think that this is all the fault of Bollywood/Hollywood movie studios. They are abusing power, court and money..." India Today reports:
The Indian government, with the help of internet service providers, and presumably under directives of court, has banned thousands of websites and URLs in the last five odd years. But until now if you somehow visited these "blocked URLs" all was fine. However, now if you try to visit such URLs and view the information, you may get a three-year jail sentence as well as invite a fine...
This is just for viewing a torrent file, or downloading a file from a host that may have been banned in India, or even for viewing an image on a file host like Imagebam. You don't have to download a torrent file, and then the actual videos or other files, which might have copyright. Just accessing information under a blocked URL will land you in jail and leave your bank account poorer.
While it's not clear how this will be enforced, visiting a blocked URL in India now leads to a warning that "Viewing, downloading, exhibiting or duplicating an illicit copy of the contents under this URL is punishable as an offence under the laws of India, including but not limited to under Sections 63, 63-A, 65 and 65-A of the Copyright Act, 1957 which prescribe imprisonment for 3 years and also fine of up to Rs. 3,00,000..."
This is just for viewing a torrent file, or downloading a file from a host that may have been banned in India, or even for viewing an image on a file host like Imagebam. You don't have to download a torrent file, and then the actual videos or other files, which might have copyright. Just accessing information under a blocked URL will land you in jail and leave your bank account poorer.
While it's not clear how this will be enforced, visiting a blocked URL in India now leads to a warning that "Viewing, downloading, exhibiting or duplicating an illicit copy of the contents under this URL is punishable as an offence under the laws of India, including but not limited to under Sections 63, 63-A, 65 and 65-A of the Copyright Act, 1957 which prescribe imprisonment for 3 years and also fine of up to Rs. 3,00,000..."
Sure, some judges may have decent knowledge, but as a whole they only ever had to learn law. The trouble is, they have been hoodwinked by The media who are driven by money - not right and wrong.
Better use emule to share, with Kad network if all emule servers are down. You don't have URLs to block there.
I know that the issue here is the outrageous punishment of the law, but the situation here is asymmetrical in that the content creators have all the financial incentive to fight legally, and the content sharers very little of it. However, the asymmetry is reversed on the technical side, so that's where you can play your cards.
Rome taught me patience and assiduous application to detail. Virtues which temper the boldness of great, general views.
It's a monologue.
Ludicrous. I wonder who will have the honor of being the first country to exact the death penalty for file sharing.
Accessing files by working around the state protected gate keeper? DEATH!
Accessing streams rather than hunting down the tape in a bargain bin somewhere because you can't get it otherwise anymore? DEATH.
Visiting sites otherwise banned by the government because it contains information they don't want you to know or share? DEATH.
Running a site banned by accident? Byzantine appeals process... followed by DEATH.
Imagine the pressure. Here's your first computer kiddo. Don't press this big red button though. If you do, they'll come and murder the whole family.
It's probably less risky to steal an actual DVD at this point. Hell, target the guys at the market selling the bootlegs. They won't call the cops.
If there are criminal penalties, then they must be publishing which are the prohibited URLs. Sounds like a good way to find any that you may have overlooked.
I care about the people in India about as much as they care about me.... which is to say, not at all.
How else am I supposed to watch my favorite Bollywood adventure? Please do the needful.
Seems like the most easy way to get rid of those criminals..
Unless of course they are calling from Microsoft to help you fix your virus ladden PC
The ones passing these laws should be literally raped, along with their family, then perhaps they would have a slightly better perspective on things?
Frucking ridiculous. In all honesty... I hope Trump bans outsourcing and H-1Bs or taxs the fuck out of them to make it harder to give those idiots jobs.
I was told I was going to see a funny cat video, but they linked me to Talledega Nights, now I'm in prison.
The next time "This is Windows Calling, Your computer have virus", I'll let them link to my computer which sends them to one of the URLs on the list.
Ignorance is no excuse. To the gulag with you! And your family! And friends!
like ellipses...
far too...
much.
Think about it: once we have large multinational brothels which own millions of female slaves to prostitute, rape will cause economical damage that the state-sponsoring prostitution rings are not willing to tolerate as it cuts into their very own profits. As a consequence, high penalties for rape will become part of multinational trade agreements and may eventually even surpass the penalties for copyright infringement.
Your women's safety should be worth it to you: allow their internment into brothels and corporate ownership of them.
Who would be better suited to represent their interests than large whorehouses?
It has worked wonders for Hollywood and the publishing industries. And their starving artists.
So they're going to throw some underage kid in jail for 3 years? Or are they going to throw his parents in jail for 3 years, then fine them a bunch of money they likely don't have? So, in other words, the Indian government is now in the business of destroying someones' life before it even gets started, or destroying entire families, over some goddamn picture on some goddamn website they decided to block for some stupid reason? Why stop there? Why not just make the Ultimate example out of these 'criminals' and execute them? Would actually be less cruel to kill some kid who downloaded something than to destroy him by putting him in prison for 3 years. In fact just round up and kill the entire family of a downloader, that'll teach people not to pirate digital media, right? Be sure to publicly execute them so the message gets rammed home. I'm sure that'll make your media industry buddies real happy with you, protecting their pictures and movies by killing people.
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Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
How does that work? The same way as in Russia, where the providers are obligated to be a MITM (and replace a certificate if it's HTTPS)? Isn't that more of an outrage, then, than what they choose to block or what penalties they put in place?
I can assure you, the best way to get rid of dragons is to have one of your own.
Especially for the more than 600 million citizens that are still waiting to get access to running water, electricity and sanitation. I am sure they'll be ecstatic to learn about this new law.
Not all of these content producers are rich fat cats. Plenty are quite poor, and need what little they get from sales to live. As do their children or anyone else they may be supporting.
No, I don't literally mean my subject title, but there really is an element of life or death at play here. We need a better way to fund the arts, worldwide.
.only there, the abuse will be far worse than the United States can do to it's own citizens! (though the US wishes it could be as bad as India). Sit back and watch the mega shit storm as countless more lives are destroyed/ruined as they get chewed up, dissolved and excreted by the machine. (With human life held at such low value world wide, I am suprised to see people still get shocked and shaken when someone flakes out and guns down their work/school chums.)
I was gonna post a snarky reply agreeing with you. But upon researching it, they've just normalized the penalty to be the same as if you stole an actual DVD. Their penalty for theft is a fine and up to three years jail time. Unlike the U.S. where you have to steal a certain amount of property value before you can face jail time, India seems to have no such threshold.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_English
All this is pointless hyperventilating by people who understand little about India.
India is one the LEAST punitive countries in the world. It does not believe that putting people in the prison is a solution for anything – even for things most of us would agree that people should be put into prison for.
India’s incarceration rate is 33 (one of the lowest in the world) per 100,000
US incarceration rate is 698 (highest incarceration rate in the world, if you ignore Seychelles) per 100,000
Have you ever heard of anyone put in prison in India for downloading a file? The law has been around since 1957. I am not even sure if for-profit bootleggers who sell media in India have been in prison for more than a few weeks. This is just some tech-ignorant government bureaucrat getting carried away. If a 0.01% of Indians tweet about it, the warning will be edited to something realistic. This has been the pattern about most India alarmist articles on Slashdot.
The killing in self-defense shouldn't be a crime, too.
1. Pay a pro hacker
2. direct target to remote logged to a torrent site
3. Report and arrest target
4. Use logged history as evidence
5. Repeat to destroy all India based target
If you do it right, you can gain business profit, and/or political power. This proves the India system is corrupted with greed and outdated for how the current world works.
These fines should off course be paid in zero rupee notes.
Nae king! Nae laird! Nae yurrupiean pressedent! We willna be fooled again!
We need Mr.Robot
So (a) you think Trump will win and (b) you think he's going to actually try to do competent things when in the job? lol.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
It is official now. The punishment for rape is actually less...
Rape shouldn't be a crime, though.
Oo look at how badass this edgy dude is. Totes cool with rape. On account of what a badass he is. I'm betting you're quite a sight to see IRL too.
More of an effort to curb vastly distributed downloads and rate limits.
This is just pandering to women comment.
She Is Released many days back.
She peddled drugs which is a serious offense in many part of the world, not only in India. She was together with a person who runs shops in infamous drug peddling area. Her partner tried to "run away" from Airport !
https://www.theguardian.com/uk...
will give a clue, if you don't have one. Jewish are well known to be drug tourists in northern India. There is a limit to scamming and pandering everyone can do even in an extreme free place like India.
"It is official now. The punishment for rape is actually less..."
People want to pretend otherwise, but rape is what India is all about. That is one fucked up country, and God help you if you're a female and live there.