There is no paper called the "Hindustani Times" - its called the "Hindustan Times" - and they never published any sort of report that I've at least run into.....
OK - programmers or not - fact of the matter remains that there are a bunch of users who use MSN and Yahoo in India. Now - for arguments' sake - lets just suppose that US ISPs do not pay up and the Indian ISPs block their content - - - - there are going to be a whole bunch of very unhappy users out there, who are already paying exorbitant rates for Internet access. Secondly, I do believe that the rest of the world would be only too happy to return the favor of blocking Indian based sites - and they generate most of their revenue from orders placed from outside India by people who want to send back gifts to people at home... a bit like chopping your own leg off!
Its just like how the Indian economy under one George Fernandes operated in the 70s when they threw Coca Cola out of the country - if you can't compete with them, make life more miserable for them - - - - I'm from India, and I'm not a programmer (I'm a network engineer) - and I, for one, can see that if they try to pull a stunt like this, they'll just end up shooting themselves in the foot!
So we can probably all rest easy, and be sure that we here in America are not going going to pay anything for our content to be available in India!:)
On a final note - they're contending with Indians 0 if there's a way to get around a block, or find a loophole in a system - rest assured, an Indian will ALWAYS find a way!:)
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There is no paper called the "Hindustani Times" - its called the "Hindustan Times" - and they never published any sort of report that I've at least run into.....
The correct term is "Ganja" :P
OK - programmers or not - fact of the matter remains that there are a bunch of users who use MSN and Yahoo in India. Now - for arguments' sake - lets just suppose that US ISPs do not pay up and the Indian ISPs block their content - - - - there are going to be a whole bunch of very unhappy users out there, who are already paying exorbitant rates for Internet access. Secondly, I do believe that the rest of the world would be only too happy to return the favor of blocking Indian based sites - and they generate most of their revenue from orders placed from outside India by people who want to send back gifts to people at home... a bit like chopping your own leg off!
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Its just like how the Indian economy under one George Fernandes operated in the 70s when they threw Coca Cola out of the country - if you can't compete with them, make life more miserable for them - - - - I'm from India, and I'm not a programmer (I'm a network engineer) - and I, for one, can see that if they try to pull a stunt like this, they'll just end up shooting themselves in the foot!
So we can probably all rest easy, and be sure that we here in America are not going going to pay anything for our content to be available in India!
On a final note - they're contending with Indians 0 if there's a way to get around a block, or find a loophole in a system - rest assured, an Indian will ALWAYS find a way!