Indian ISPs Told To Block Access To Vimeo
from the massive-overreaction dept
A few months ago we wrote about Indian ISPs being told to block (entirely) access to Megaupload (when it still existed) and BTJunkie. It seemed like overkill to block entire sites, but it appears that such censorship is expanding. There are reports in India of ISP-level blocks, ordered by the government, of a ton of sites. Many of these are torrent search engines and cyberlockers... but they also include Vimeo, one of the most popular video sites for filmmakers. This seems like another case of massive overkill by a government that has no idea what it's doing. It's amazing just how many overkill censorship attempts we've seen lately all in the name of copyright holders.
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Filed Under: censorship, india, isp, torrents
Companies: btjunkie, megaupload, vimeo
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Only Superman can do that.
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and it only for the rights holders, who are th evictims of crime, that they do this, but of course mike can overlook the crimes his fellow pirates do, all in the name of freedom mind you
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The poster missed several key elements. For example this post correctly identifies the author, but does not call him "Mikey" and there is a blatant lack of key words here.
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Are you that dissatisfied with El-P that you've gone beyond trolling his thread and have now spread your shillwings to other topics, regardless of relevance?
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I guess now people in India have to use a proxy to see indie shorts, actors' self-filmed monologues, and fanvids, but they can still watch all the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episodes they want to.
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Here here to big content for looking after our progress by moving backwards!
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False Rumour
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Our courts are run by retards
http://www.medianama.com/2012/05/223-need-specificity-in-court-orders-on-online-copyright-v iolation-in-india-transparency-from-isps/
Apparently PasteBin(!!) is blocked as well.
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1) What you see is a bunch of squiggles called "letters" on a webpage, unless you are actually in India watching kids, which is pretty creepy.
2) "angry" isn't the word most would use, "disappointed" is probably a better choice of words for how i feel about it.
3) "that they can't get free stuff anymore" no, the problem is that some people in India can't get free stuff anymore. Everyone here is saddened for THEIR loss. Those who have posted from India apparently have no problem accessing the affected sites
4) "can't get free stuff" if by "stuff" you mean access to completely legitimate websites. the kind that you can access from almost any other country, because there's nothing wrong with them. There's nothing inherently wrong with free. If someone walks up to you on the street and offers you $20 to go get professional psychiatric help, are you going to tell him no because it's FREE!?!?!?! (oh noes!). Of course, it may be different if the $20 is stolen, but on vimeo that is the exception rather than the rule
5) "Can't" as with any form of "blocking" there's already tons of ways around this. so this will stop grandpa from accidentally watching a legal video. The kind of people who are technically proficient enough to pirate in the first place have probably already found another way to "get their free stuff."
So, in conclusion, you comment should be something more like:
"The majority of what I'm reading about here is a bunch of age-diverse webizens empathizing with those in a foreign land who have a slightly more difficult time accessing legal websites, while hardcore piracy continues unabated."
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Oh, and this time there's no Kim Dotcom or Peter Sunde for you to blame notoriety on. Vimeo has been wrongly and irresponsibly blocked.
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Only a delusional troll would believe that there are not a multitude of workarounds, let alone other sites, where 'free stuff' can still be found...and these workarounds were probably available as soon as the first 'freetardist' got a website block splash page.
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Vimeo
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http://vimeo.com/29950141
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If the RIAA threatens you, you have the right to retaliate as you would to any terrorist.
Tell everyone they are supporting terrorism when they buy a dvd or bluray or pay for any entertainment from Hollywood or from any studio/organization financing the RIAA.
Tell everyone that when they share movies/tv shows /music over the Internet they are defeating the terrorists.
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This is really disturbing!
What i see is a terible precedent being set in front of everyone eyes. If we allows them to shutdown any website for false pretexs, then they might as well shutdown any website for no reason at all.
This to me is the coup of an investor that got very deep pockets and attempted to use govt. to shutdown their competition. General Electric is the undisputed champion in this departement.
Anybody that say this ban is no big deal cause the site in question is not a big loss, those people failed to see what is at stake here.
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Really stupid censorship
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https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/tor-browser-2.2.35-12_en-US.exe
Close your browser.
Unzip this portable file to a suitable location like non System partition ( Drive other than the C:\ Partition) or pendrive.
Run the �Start TOR Browser.exe� file from the �TOR Browser� Folder to launch a secure version of Firefox Portable.
It takes time to open since it directs your request through a Tor network of IP Addresses and exits in another country as a different IP address from your own.
Hence you can access any of your �forbidden� sites to which access has been blocked on the basis of the High Court order.
Other option is UltraSurf but it is slightly suspicious based on net reports.
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Users requested to exercise caution and use it for legitimate purposes only.
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VPN
It`s a VPN service, works similar with a proxy, only faster..
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VPN service to open blocked website
I got mine from http://www.primovpn.net , they are really easy to setup. I don't know if they will work with Himachi though.
Primovpn routers also let you do dual gateway on one router so you can be local and on vpn at the same time."
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