Indian ISPs Forced to Block Entire Domains Simply to Try and Stop Trading of One Film Movie studio Reliance Entertainment has somehow convinced courts in India to block entire domains -- simply to try and stop the trading of a single movie. According to Torrent Freak, not only have ISPs been ordered by the courts to block BitTorrent websites like BtJunkie, but they've also been ordered to block legitimate storage locker services like MegaUpload. Unsurprisingly, first in line to enthusiastically block entire domains is Reliance sister company Reliance Communications. MegaUpload insists that this will be a great opportunity to test anti-blocking technologies: Commenting on the censorship, Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom told TorrentFreak that the effects of these blocks are usually resolved in a week, but while they stand they give the company a chance to do some analysis. "For us the India block is a great opportunity to see how users respond. In India we have one of the highest installation rates of our Megakey application. It gives users direct access to our servers. The Megakey instantly cures any kind of ISP or DNS blockade and always finds the fastest route to our servers,” Kim adds. In other words, those who want to get the copyrighted file will simply find a workaround, while less tech savvy users will be greeted with a broken Internet. The effort illustrates concerns many have with SOPA here in the States, in that filtering entire domains to try and stop piracy simply erodes free speech rights while breaking core Internet functionality -- all to protect the revenues of companies that failed repeatedly to adapt their business models to the modern age.
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  SpikePremium
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1 edit | not a failure to adapt... Big content has never "failed" to adapt their business models at all, its that they never even really try.
History keeps repeating itself, everytime there is a new service that grows, Netflix being a prime example, they strongarm them into ever higher licensing costs, delaying releases by over a month, etc.
They don't even try to adapt their aging business models, because that would mean giving up their control over pricing and distribution. Instead they want to keep feeding us overpriced crap instead of providing value for your money.
Take 3D and 3DTV for instance, it was supposed to be their next big cash cow... yeah, its just another way to increase prices instead of give us any real value.
And no, Ultraviolet is not their way of 'adapting' like they want you to believe. | |
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Mullica Hill, NJ | Re: not a failure to adapt... UV is a good idea in concept... but since its from the industry its going to fail because its not built by a consumer angled firm. it will not give the users what they actually want.
But yes the MAFIAA is always on a mission to kill that which they cannot fully control. They tried to kill the VCR, the CDR, the DVDR, the DVR. pretty much anything that puts content consumption in the control of the viewer they are against.
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| | | | Download legally ya bunch of freeloaders, and we wouldnt have this headline, would we? Hope you all get served !
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| Re: not a failure to adapt... said by ITALIAN926:Download legally ya bunch of freeloaders, and we wouldnt have this headline, would we? Hope you all get served !
How? As the MPAA and RIAA have not made many legal alternatives to piracy that are not DRM encumbered and work, I will stick to the free method, that is DRM free. If I pay for my music, I expect to be able to use it as I please. As far as im concerned, the MPAA and the RIAA deserve a federal inquiry into unfair business practices for censorship and mishandling their own funds. Look up "hollywood accounting" and see why many actors dont get paid for DVD sales, and residuals, and sometimes not even up front. The MPAA and the RIAA are both worse than your average loan sharks. | |
| | | | | | Re: not a failure to adapt... said by Chubbysumo:As the ... RIAA have not made many legal alternatives to piracy that are not DRM encumbered and work Yup, Amazon does not sell songs/albums as MP3 downloads and therefore those hundreds of MP3's I've gotten from them don't actually exist 
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Awww too bad, wouldve liked to have seen it.
I Love how people try to justify doing something that is illegal. With all the legit sites out there, amazon, netflix, itunes, there is NO justification for people to DL/UP copyrighted material. "If its free, its for me" . Yea, head straight to your supermarket and shove some steaks down your pants. | |
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| Re: not a failure to adapt... said by ITALIAN926: quote:
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Awww too bad, wouldve liked to have seen it. I Love how people try to justify doing something that is illegal. With all the legit sites out there, amazon, netflix, itunes, there is NO justification for people to DL/UP copyrighted material. "If its free, its for me" . Yea, head straight to your supermarket and shove some steaks down your pants. Terrible analogy. At least as it relates to the law.
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| | | | | | "We could not process your order. The sale of MP3 Downloads is currently available only to US customers located in the United States.
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^ They totally don't.. | |
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| | | | When they charge you a dollar for every time you whistle a top 40's tune will you still be saying the same thing?
What about every public institution in the UK now that does a birthday party has to pay some dead person's estate for all eternity $10 every time they sing "happy birthday"?
How about the fact that even colours themselves are becoming copyrighted as our our own genes? How do you expect us to "legally" pay for those?
Copyright is all about controlling the consumption and has nothing to do with compensation. For that to happen the "consumer" has to have some rights.
WE do not have any at all and are continuing to lose them with the rest of our societal freedoms. | |
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kudos:5 | Re: not a failure to adapt... said by neo :When they charge you a dollar for every time you whistle a top 40's tune will you still be saying the same thing? Don't laugh. RIAA has sued companies just because a radio in an employee breakroom can be overheard by a store customer.
said by neo :How about the fact that even colours themselves are becoming copyrighted as our our own genes? I heard that IBM had a copyright on *their* particular shade of blue. It would not surprise me if AT&T sued Orange cellular in the UK because of the orange colors.
DISCLAIMER: The AT&T and Orange (cellular) images are used under the "fair use" provision of U.S. Copyright law, »www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html /insert rolling eyes icon to indicate the absurdity of having to even include such a disclaimer/ | |
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| | | | said by ITALIAN926:Download legally ya bunch of freeloaders, and we wouldnt have this headline, would we? Hope you all get served !
Hey look - it's a sheep. With it's nose up someone's ass.
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ColossalCave | Kind of like Gun Control With the work-arounds already in place, this whole concept of blocking websites and entire domains takes on a rather familiar flavor of tossing the baby out with the bath water.
Or to put it another way: When domains are outlawed, only outlaws will have access to the domains.
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| | | O'rly? That's test for DeSOPA. | |
| | | Thats not a bad concept If SOPA passes maybe us pirates will get left alone. No easily worked around darknet here. No sir.
Move along. Nothing to see here. | |
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| Re: Thats not a bad concept said by DataRiker:If SOPA passes maybe us pirates will get left alone. No easily worked around darknet here. No sir.
Move along. Nothing to see here.
The pirates and free speech activists have already set up alternative DNS systems, but the problem is, is that the promary DNS authoritative servers, run by ICANN, are in the USA, so they can pretty much be forced to remove all listings to a site, even if it does not reside in the US, or a US domain(under SOPA/PIPA). I am setting myself up with a DNS server in my own house(old p4 machine), that simply gets the good DNS responses, and saves them, and when time comes and a DNS server is censored, my own DNS server is unaffected. I am also taking the time to learn the direct IP address of a few of the sites that I like the most, because that cuts DNS out of the loop entirely. | |
| | | | | Re: Thats not a bad concept Well, you won't know you're living in a police state until they cut off........(crickets) | |
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| legitimate storage locker services ... like MegaUpload?
Wow, you found something legitimate there? Well done! Must have had to look long and hard. Mostly that seems to be porn, warez, and movies. I guess some grandma also uploaded her recipes there.
Sadly, the wild west internet days are coming to an end. The settlers are moving west, and the days of the outlaw and gunslinger ruling the internet are coming to a close.
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Mullica Hill, NJ | Re: legitimate storage locker services its funny that the government now hates the internet doing what they designed it to do. pass traffic around obstructions and breaks in the path.
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| | Things seems working normally on BSNL-AS9829 I can open all sites normally on BSNL (India). Very likely effect will be only on Reliance broadband. On BSNL, Airtel, MTNL, MTS etc - not really. Except Reliance no one really has interest in blocking. Even on wireless plans hard data consumption caps make it a good deal for ISP's to have bandwidth consuming apps. | |
| | | What could it be I wonder what movie it was | |
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