Court Order Blocks BitTorrent, Megaupload and More

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December 27, 2011
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In a sweeping attempt at stopping piracy of their latest movie, a studio has obtained a court order forcing India’s ISPs to block some of the world’s largest file-sharing sites. A company spokesman gave a SOPA-style reason for their actions, claiming that site blocking is the only way they can stop foreign sites from engaging in “rampant online piracy.” Megaupload says the ban presents a great opportunity for them to test their anti-blocking technologies.

As 2011 draws to a close, movie company Reliance Entertainment have demonstrated yet again why corporations should not be trusted to put anyone’s interests above their own when they have powerful censorship tools at their disposal.

For the third time this year, Reliance have persuaded India’s High Court to track the responsibility for preventing copyright infringement of their movies right back to the country’s Internet service providers.

The ISPs have taken the legal threats seriously. Since Christmas Eve, Internet users trying to access many torrent sites including BTjunkie and cyberlocker services such as Megaupload have been greeted with a message stating that “This site has been blocked” along with a note reporting – “Copyright Reliance Entertainment, All Rights Reserved.”

Reliance told TOI that the blockade was put in place to stop piracy of the company’s latest release, the movie Don 2. However, the company isn’t just having specific torrents or URLs blacklisted, they have succeeded in getting entire domains blocked, SOPA-style. Indeed, their justification could have been written by SOPA proponents.

“All websites like Megaupload and Filesonic are located out of India and such sites rampantly promote online piracy. In fact, steps such as the John Doe order are the only step that we copyright owners are left with,” said Reliance spokesman Sanjay Tandon.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, one of the first ISPs to respond to the blocking demand was Reliance Communications (Rcom), a situation bemoaned by legitimate cyberlocker customers.

“Since Friday morning I can’t access any file-hosting websites. Not all web users are pirates. We share legitimate files through websites like Megaupload and Filesonic. Like photographs we have clicked. Blocking of websites is ridiculous,” said Gaurav Shukla, Reliance Broadband customer and editor of news portal AndroidOS.

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.

While there is little Reliance Entertainment could have done about the leak of a telesync (camcorded, direct audio) version of Don 2, they have only themselves to blame for the almost perfect DVD screener copy currently doing the rounds online.

Stats collected by TorrentFreak suggest that in total the movie has been downloaded around 150,000 times on BitTorrent alone – it’s currently hovering around in the Top 15 most popular torrents on The Pirate Bay. Whether this amounts to a “success” for Reliance is a matter for them.

It’s worth noting that if all entertainment companies in India took this same action for all of their releases, it would be possible to have all ‘infringing’ sites blocked on a rolling and permanent basis. Considering the SOPA debate during the last few months, that unnerving eventuality will sound worryingly familiar.

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fuck them off , hope this movie will fail and they go bankrupt , they sensor the internet and kills millions of job to get possible few additional sales for a worthless movie
- Mitch Mead
  
  It undoubtedly will due to them doing this. Without it spreading through p2p I doubt they will make much profit.
  - Guest
    
    There are hundreds of thousands of freelancers in India who write small scripts and apps for clients and use p2p and these cyberlockers like MU to distribute their work. Many of them even have premium accounts on these sites. All of a sudden a stupid judge passes a blanket ban on these sites without any thought of repercussions and damages.
    
    And we still call India a democracy, when big companies like Reliance can get the judges to order whatever they want? Very soon, these judges will be delivering pizzas to Reliance bosses too.
    - Dgtarun
      
      Reliance is a bitch company. The day it has come from then till now its a pain in the ass of all the citizens of India. Fuck them off from this world. Jack ass Reliance. . .
  - Youngruben12
    
    It’s not about the profit, my friend we are being cutoff from society. Look at the Big Picture..
- http://twitter.com/MAFIAAFire MAFIAAFire
  
  Especially when censorship like this has already been defeated:
  http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-dancing-add-on-kills-dns-and-ip-blockades-111130/
  - Guest
    
    This looks like a job for … !
    
    Oh, you’re already here. Hey Mafiaafire. So, what ya doing?
    - http://twitter.com/MAFIAAFire MAFIAAFire
      
      :)
      
      What are we doing? Just laughing at the morons who are trying to use a sword to fight the wind.
    - Fan
      
      Hey MafiaaFire, how come my dutch VPN can’t access Torrentz.eu? Even with your addon. Is it blocked in Holland? Am I doing something wrong?
      
      (Love ya work)
    - http://twitter.com/MAFIAAFire MAFIAAFire
      
      @Fan
      > Is it blocked in Holland? Am I doing something wrong?
      
      Come on over to our support forum (ilovemafiaafire.net) and one of the guys will try to help ya.
      
      It wouldn’t be fair to TF (or look pretty) if we started support threads here :))
  - FFS
    
    You really do whore your addon every little chance you get.
    - http://twitter.com/MAFIAAFire MAFIAAFire
      
      That’s addonS to you! (Note the ‘s’) :p
      
      We are as much as a non profit as possible,no advertising (no budget), but you still seem to be offended when we tell people we have already come up with a solution to the kind of censorship they are experiencing… why?
      
      We also cross linked to another TF article rather than our site, which is good for SEO.
      
      We are proud of our work, and with ~40k downloads in a month (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mafiaafire-piratebay-dancing/statistics/?last=30) I think people appreciate what we are doing.
      
      But… have a good day bro ;)
- anon1
  
  don’t worry, if it’s not a ’50′s style movie with lots of singing and dancing, it’ll be a flop : D
- Anonymous
  
  Who cares? My BSNL connection still loads megaupload.com. And i dont give a shit about that stupid new movie. My friends who went to see it said it was awful. I wont even download it.
- I am ***** angry
  
  ?? FUCK FUCK ??
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Anonymous

Reliance Entertainment and Reliance Communications sound similar. Seems like it’s the same company.. why a court order is needed for that is a mystery to me…

Anyway; bunch of idiots. Why does this happen often in India?
- http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IZ5BM5GNLA54OADSWGSXAMA7SY Jay
  
  The courts are very disperse. So Reliance can forum shop all day long for lenient judges. Further, they are just now having their women’s revolution to put this in perspective. To think that the judges will understand the technology for blocking this seems to be pretty laughable at this conjecture.
- Anonymous
  
  Does anyone in the western world really care what India’s laws are? I mean c’mon, no one in North or South America has a substantial amount of laws similar to any Asian country…
  
  Point is, I hope they don’t plan to use this as a reason why the US should implement such legislation. “But India’s government lets them do it!” — Good thing this isn’t India, and we have that “freedom” that we love to flaunt…
  Perhaps we could implement a population-control law similar to China next!!! I could actually be slightly in favor if the number of children people could have depended on IQs or ancestral achievement, everybody gets at least one kid though.
  
  In the same way, I can see a need for something like SOPA for other applications, such as banishing child exploitation on the internet, and you know, things that are actually HARMFUL. But locking up people or ruining them financially for the rest of their lives over potentially acquiring, without someone-who-they-have-never-met’s permission, a certain sequences of 1′s and 0′s is absolutely beyond idiotic.
  - http://torrentfreak.com/ Rob8urcakes
    
    **Good thing this isn’t India, and we have that “freedom” that we love to flaunt…**
    
    I trust you’re being deliberately facetious and sarcastic Frosty but what freedom would that be exactly?
    The freedom to be homeless?
    The freedom to be jobless?
    The freedom to be in abject poverty?
    The freedom to starve to death?
    The freedom to be refused medical treatment when it’s needed most?
    The freedom to freeze to death, hungry and to live on the streets like rats?
    
    With all those “freedoms” the USA is fast becoming one of the most totalitarian, inhumane, asocial, fascist régimes in the World.
    - Dueep Jyot Singh
      
      I agree with Rob. Indian laws are meant to be a pain in the postitch for Indians and we are trying to straigten them up. It is only when companies like Reliance try out such stunts is that we can understand a fact that it is possible for a service provider ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD INCLUDING THE USA to block access to ANY SITE THEY LIKE on their own volition. WAKE UP USA, if it .has happened in India and China, get ready for it to happen to you, too.
      As for laws,people in the West have their own set of idiotic laws to face daily.Viva la Freedom of the West.
      to the list please ddd the freedom to let a child die because you as her teacher are not allowed to give her medicine?
      the Freedom to let your child call the police and the state deem you an unfit parent because you prevented that fat spoilt brat from hogging on junk food and the state considers it to be an infringement of his personal freedom!
      The freedom to let a murderess au pair off because she yelled “you cannot do this to me, that baby deserved to die, its crying disturbed me?”
      You send your spoilt brat to youth correction camps for a number of years saying let someone else shoulder the responsibility for another year? That is after you neglected a child during his childhood and/ or spoilt him by lettting him do what he wanted?
      
      Look at your state and shudder, my friend FrostyC.
    - Guest
      
      Ok Rob, I’ll bite; how are these “freedoms” unique to the USA? How is the USA the worst in any of these? I think you need to actually study totalitarian countries like North Korea, Myanmar, or even the farmers in China who had their land requisitioned in the reform periods, and you’ll understand why the USA does not fit.
      
      Did you know, for example, that it is illegal for a hospital to refuse life-saving treatment to anyone, regardless of their financial situation? The problem is that many people on the streets don’t know that when they are dying, they have a place they can go that is required by law to take them, and is required in many states to let them stay for multiple days for recovery. Of course, seeing the high rate of mental illness among the homeless population, it’s not hard to see why they don’t know that.
      
      You sir, strike me as someone who attacks the USA simply because it currently holds the ranking of superpower, not because. It’s particularly sad, because the USA actually has problems that wouldn’t be that hard to fix, but the mass of people who simply want to proclaim that “the USA is fast becoming one of the most totalitarian, inhumane, asocial, fascist régimes in the World.” Heck, even our medical system would be relatively easy to fix. One very simple solution is to remove the Gateway system. Just with that, we could greatly reduce costs.
      
      I will say this; the USA has been the worst on trying to restrict the internet to prevent piracy, but even if that is censorship, it is not the stuff of totalitarianism. There is no aspect of violence, a minimal chance of police interference, etc.
      
      @Dueep
      
      Ah, so we’re going to rely on case study examples? If we’re going to do that, let me assure you that I can show you examples of horrible things done in most any country. If we’re going to discuss India, I’ll just mention female infanticide and the torture of prisoners in the court system.
      
      Going after everything you said would take to long, so I’m going to go after your most egregious attack?
      
      “The freedom to let a murderess au pair off because she yelled “you cannot do this to me, that baby deserved to die, its crying disturbed me?”
      
      Do you understand the concept that preserving a system of justice is more important than delivering justice to any individual person? The entire purpose of a trial system is that it’s not supposed to be swayed by what the populace thinks. Just because everyone else decides guilt doesn’t mean that there is guilt. In this case, even though this woman was probably a murderer, I’m glad to see that the court’s decision was abided by, and no one took the violence into their own hands. That’s the mark of a civilized society. Look around to the countries in the developing index, and you won’t fin that that’s the case.
- Dueep Jyot Singh
  
  Yes, my friend, these sorts of stunts happen a bit too often in India, especially when half baked companies like reliance hold us broadband clients to ransom by cutting off access to the internet whenever they wish. We have no redress or forum here to which one can complain. And now they have started to block access to sites. This Big Brother tendency is getting to be a bit too idiotic and tiresome. The only thing that we Indians do in such cases is write tweets on Facebook , stop buying Reliance products (which does not bother them much, they have made their billions) and write to papers complaining against them. Needless to say, those letters are not published!!! So we can consider ourselves living in a democratic police state of India.
Anonymous

Jesus Christ.
Anon

“Anti blocking technologies”, another term for “we’ll steal your shit and make ad money against it until you finally put us in jail.”

Fine. As you wish. At least we’ll all see it’s not the rightsholders being the dicks this time.
- Fredrika
  
  > “”Anti blocking technologies”, another term for “we’ll steal your shit and make ad money against it until you finally put us in jail.”"
  
  As usual you seem seriously confused. The eventual act of performing a copyright infringement, trough using your own physical property, that you own, in a manner that constitutes a conflict with someone’s monopoly, is never anything even close to stealing. You can verify this indisputable fact in the law, a dictionary, a physics book or a book about logic.
  
  Why do you have such a huge problem with using proper language or logical terms?
  
  > “At least we’ll all see it’s not the rightsholders being the dicks this time.”
  
  There’s obviously nothing wrong or dicky about making sure people can access your fully legal site, that performs no copyright infringement whatsoever, when some ignorant court decides to force postal services to censor peoples access to it, based on some fascist companies falsified accusations?
  
  But facts where never your strong side, now was it?
  - Anon
    
    Tell it to the judge Fredrika. You are an utter, empty vessel.
    
    as always.
    - Fredrika
      
      > “Tell it to the judge..”
      
      What does a judge have to do with the fact that you seem completely incapable of using proper language and terms to even remotely logical describe certain acts?
      
      > “You are an utter, empty vessel.”
      
      Well, if we for a second disregard the fact that you just performed another personal attack, i.e. an ad hominem fallacy, it’s actually your accusation that is, as always, completely empty.
      
      As always.
    - downloading like crazy
      
      oops just dl it
    - Anon’s Mom
      
      Please, just stop embarrassing yourself and shut up.
    - http://tinyurl.com/ANoiXioNA-personal-info ANoiXioNA
      
      @Anon ……….
    - Anonymous
      
      Ah, as far as I can see the only one here who is on the border of appearing in the front of a judge would be you, for implicit libel.
      
      Or are you in effect saying that Fredrika’s explanation of easily verifiable fact is somehow illegal?
      
      Let me guess. Facts are rampantly on the side of Pirates so facts should be outlawed as well? This is, after all, your usual stance.
  - Anonymous
    
    The definition of stealing is to appropriate one’s property without consent. Please justify how taking a movie which was paid for by a company and distributing it without said company’s consent is not stealing? I await your reply with interest.
    - Anonymous
      
      In addition, file hosting sites are hardly innocent. While I disagree with a blanket ban, steps should be taken to remove or restrict access to copyrighted content hosted on these sites.
      Claiming that a site that hosts copyrighted material and does nothing about it is innocent is like saying that if I hold someone down while others rape them, I’m innocent because I wasn’t doing the raping.
    - Fredrika
      
      > “The definition of stealing is to appropriate one’s property without consent.”
      
      Correct, and therefore the term is completely incorrect to use when describing when someone manufactures a copy with his own property, that he owns.
      
      No property belonging to someone else is permanently deprived from that owner, so that he no longer has access to it, when someone performs a copyright infringement, through manufacturing a copy with his own property. Therefore nothing physically or logically close to theft has taken place.
      
      The only property involved when people fileshare is the property belong to the filesharer. As you may or may not know, an intellectual work does not constitute any kind of property. Property is something that is scarce in supply, and that can be owned, sold or bought. An intellectual work is not scarce in supply and it can not be owned, sold or bought.
      
      The unfortunately misleading term intellectual property does not refer to the intellectual work in itself, it refers to the copyright monopoly, which is a piece of intangible property, that can be owned, sold or bought.
      
      > “Please justify how taking a movie which was paid for by a company and distributing it without said company’s consent is not stealing?”
      
      Whether or not you personally and subjectively feel something has been justified, does not decide whether or not something has been stolen.
      
      > “..file hosting sites are hardly innocent.”
      
      They are legal, and they do not commit copyright infringement. Whether or not your personal subjective opinion considers them innocent or not is completely irrelevant to that fact.
      
      > “..steps should be taken to remove or restrict access to copyrighted content hosted on these sites.”
      
      Well educated courts have decided in thought trough decisions that adequate steps are taken, by responding to a copyright claim in a takedown notice, and that to put any other responsibility on the file hosting sites is unreasonable. The single fact that hosted content is copyrighted does not decide whether or not certain distribution of it constitutes copyright infringement or not.
      
      > “Claiming that a site that hosts copyrighted material and does nothing about it is innocent is like saying that if I hold someone down while others rape them, I’m innocent because I wasn’t doing the raping.”
      
      If we for a second try to ignore your somewhat twisted and disproportionate comparison of a civil matter as a potential copyright infringement in a distribution monopoly, with the rape of a human being and violation of someone’s body, there’s a fundamental difference, in the latter example you are aware of what’s going on. Once filehosting sites are made aware of a copyright infringement, they are by law obliged to remove the download possibility. If they do not they are no longer considered innocent.
      
      But since you so vividly choose your subject of comparison, do you feel that it is appropriate to compare an intrusion into a monopoly over manufacturing and distribution of copies, with the rape of a human being, to try to prove a point?
      
      You don’t think that people who actually has been raped, feel a bit sickened by you using their horrible trauma as comparison to a company performing an intrusion into a distribution monopoly?
    - http://tinyurl.com/ANoiXioNA-personal-info ANoiXioNA
      
      well said @ Fredrika
      
      Sugar and spice and OH JESUS CHRIST !
    - Anonymous
      
      Should we here enter the various links to supreme courts in the US and elsewhere in the world where they explain that copyright infringement is not theft with every reason as to why this conclusion was drawn is entered?
      
      Copyright infringement is not theft. Just as watching an action movie does not constitute murder. So what you are really saying is that lawyers and judges with a combined few centuries of experience in interpreting the law between them are unable to draw the proper definition of what constitutes theft or not.
      
      You have a very high opinion of your own legal skills, i must say. A misplaced one, imho.
- Guest
  
  >At least we’ll all see it’s not the rightsholders being the dicks this time.
  
  Ah, so you’re saying that they were dicks before, despite your insistence that everyone else were the dicks. Thanks for confirming that. There might be hope for you yet.
  
  …Nah, who’m I kidding.
Floppy Copy

How do they stop the sneaker-net though? There are a whole lot of sneakers in India. Perhaps a ban on IP infringing shoe stores is in order. :)
http://twitter.com/Power2All Power2All

They just give a push to other people to invent harder ways to stop sharing.
Is it not via bittorrent, then it goes via underground, they just pushing them further into a hole.
Guest

Mehhh.. Censorship is not a solution to get higher profits. This will not get them more money. People download stuff, because it’s FREEE!!! I’m pretty sure that Indians don’t give a damn, if they can’t see that “Don 2″. Indians will just watch/record older movies on TV or do something else to entertain themselves. Movies are just one way for entertainment.
I’m wondering.. why can’t the movie company just show the movie for free with a few ads (that doesn’t disturb the viewers) on the website. So that viewers are happy that they can watch it for free, and the company is happy, because they are getting money for showing ads. And there should also be a “donate” button, so if people really enjoyed the movie, they can show their support to the moviemakers.
- Dueepjs
  
  True, friend Guest. We Indians care too hoots about seeing that pathetic movie Don 2. This stupid stunt by reliance was just a way of holding their customers to ransom. Well we have woken up and have cancelled our subscriptions with Reliance, giving them the old Index.The idea that they can control our web surfing activities is not only illegal and arbitrary but it proves the ancient axiom that those who the gods wish to destroy , they first make mad. In fact, Indians have begun losing patience with Reliance’s capers and arbitrary idiocies. You may find reliance Broadband shutting down operations one of these days, because ve haff had enough!
  - Dueep Jyot Singh
    
    Oops, Two hoots!!!
Herptyderp

I took a photograph (a real priceless piece of art, i’m not just some hobby photographer, trust me) so block all p2p and cyberlockers quickly, before someone posts it on the interwebs. I don’t care if you block all other traffic on those sites, save my photograph! Oh shi..photos can be shared on almost all sites. Block the interwebs completely NOW!
- humor and tragedy
  
  Quoted, due to awesomeness…
http://blockaid.me BlockAid DNS

We would appreciate if someone could tell us whether they are blocking all packets to these sites or whether it is just a dns blockade.
- Anonymous
  
  It is likely to be a DNS block with an optional IP block added.
  
  In other words nothing that HTTPS, VPN or a web proxy like fetch4.me could not easily bypass.
- Anonym
  
  They’re using Netsweeper to block sites. Admin made rule. All internet connectivity passes through this proxy. Accessing these sites passes on the ip address too from which it was accessed. (All this can be viewed from page source of the “Site has been blocked” page.)
- Dueep Jyot Singh
  
  All packets. Everything which has a filesonic or fileserve or megaupload URL. That means I cannot download or upload any book or file on any P2p site. Talk about Big Boots goosestepping all over me.
http://twitter.com/al_d_25 booda dass

meh if they want to see it they will… maybe just be a physical Chinese copy lol… j.k but yeah know what i mean
Anonymous

as per usual, fire a cannon to shoot a fly! clueless judges issuing ridiculous orders simply to protect a single industry. never stop to think about all the legitimate files that are shared over the ‘net via these type of sites or the harm that’s done to them. all countries seem to be employing the same stupid logic. i wonder what would happen if all these sites packed up and went to somewhere that had little if any interest in stopping file sharing? the economic impact would be far greater than losing the revenue from a movie studio.
- Qaqa
  
  I hope the judges are ‘clueless’ because the alternative (which is far more likely, IMO) is that they’re bought and paid for by the ‘entertainment industry’…
  - Jnxonwdd
    
    Bought? No way…
    Judges who make decisions like blocking the internet over shit movies and for shit corps, have to be honest and upholding the law.
    I refuse to believe otherwise dammit! :P
- Dueep Jyot Singh
  
  The same thing happened a couple of months ago with Paypal. We Indians were not allowed access to our foreign money paid through Paypal because it was deemed to be Black money. Just 4 days of Paypal blockage lost the Indian government umpteen hundred billions I kid you not in foreign exchange. Finally some sensible person in the government financial regulatory bank the RBI thought up a good way of getting the foreign exchange flowing again through Paypal. It is only when the proof of the pudding is pasted on some one’s face in India through a financial loss, it is only then that he wakes up and says oooh, I did not think of that. This is what has happened with the judge and his judgement. I wonder if he can spell “John Doe”?He was too busy looking at the “gifts” given to him by Reliance.
http://twitter.com/al_d_25 booda dass

BTW Beware you Don2 pirates lol > http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/showbiz/bollywood/pirates-don-2-beware-634 < funny ass picture if your North American
http://www.twitter.com/echoman74 echoman

“lol” that is all.
Geee

“anti-blocking technologies.”
gets the pop corn
hey atleast they can get shit done
big movie comin up ? shut DOWN EVERYTHING !
http://twitter.com/DEMONLORD4000 DEMONLORD

looks like just an dns block
foff

Movie attendance in the US is dropping like a rock. The movies suck and no one has the money to go to a movie. Ticket prices have finally reached the tipping point. I can only imagine what it must be like in a third world country. People will just say F U to the movie and see it later or never. My wife is from a third world country and I know growing up she heard about movies but saw very few. What these pro censor fuckheads don’t realize is that no one needs to see their shit.
- Anonymous
  
  and at the same time, why are the majority of “most often downloaded torrent movies” (each downloaded by millions) all generally US produced.
  
  Its got precious little to do with ticket prices and no one wanting to go and see it.
  
  Who ya trying to kid Foff ?
  - foff
    
    They do it because they can. It does not mean they can’t live without it. Before there was internet there were tons of black market DVD sellers. So it has being going on for a long time only the mode of distribution has changed. Pro copyright supporters are pissing in the wind if they think any of their attempts will ever make them a dime a more.
    - Anonymous
      
      So what you’re saying is, it doesn’t actually have anything to do with ticket prices or no one wanting to see it but simply “because they can” ?
      
      Why say it has anything to do with one thing, when you already know its something completely different ?
    - http://twitter.com/icanhazsake Ninja
      
      Oh but it has everything to do with prices. Today I buy more books because they are at least 40% cheaper and I actually earn enough to spare the money. I also buy more DVDs today because I agree with a price tag of $10 for the movie and the tickets for the cinemas are a complete wallet rape.
      
      Go back to your troll cave Pelouze. Or start working with facts. He has his wife as some1 who had this as her reality. I am one who had this as his reality. If your reality is such that you can buy whatever for whatever the price is then good for you. Just don’t generalize.
  - Anonymous
    
    Marketing and trade restrictions?
  - Anonymous
    
    Half a dozen studies on file-sharing performed on behalf of governments disagree with you. There is no correlation between movie attendance and filesharing. That has been conclusively disproven.
    
    So, for how much longer will you try to argue from “facts” which exists only in your personal opinion?
Ok

The Megakey seems like a good tool but we need all these big filelockers and other websites to work together and work on a worldwide dns-system not controled by the U.S gov. Right now there are to may small projects like mafiaa-fire and blockaid.me. Work together so they can’t take shit down.
- Ne
  
  The problem: http://xkcd.com/927/
- Anonymous
  
  Why do you care if rights-holders want to take their copy-written materials down ?
  - Ok
    
    Quote from the article:
    
    “Since Friday morning I can’t access any file-hosting websites. Not all web users are pirates. We share legitimate files through websites like Megaupload and Filesonic. Like photographs we have clicked. Blocking of websites is ridiculous,”
    - Anonymous
      
      These websites wouldn’t be on the radar if piracy wasn’t at epidemic levels and that these sites didn’t profit from other peoples work so much.
      
      Only two parties to blame when it comes to site blockages and the owners/creators or copy-written material are not one of them.
    - Fredrika
      
      > “These websites wouldn’t be on the radar if piracy wasn’t at epidemic levels..”
      
      In reality, these websites wouldn’t be on the radar if it wasn’t for the fact that rights holders went after people using P2P-filesharing. Since people felt unsafe using P2P, demand for safer solutions went up.
      
      Second, piracy is in no way at epidemic levels. The thesis that piracy even constitutes a problem for society or the content industry is a claim that hasn’t been proven in any independent scientific research. That a small part of the content industry, the part that relies heavily on the specific single business model of selling copies, possibly might be suffering, is in no way proof of the former. It’s only proof of that they can’t handle free market rules.
      
      > “..and that these sites didn’t profit from other peoples work so much.”
      
      As explained to you several times before, they do not profit from other peoples work any more than what Sony does when they sell VCR’s, double cassette decks or CD-burners. They profit from being a fully legal successful sought after and appreciated service. They are successful free market entrepreneurs.
      
      > “Only two parties to blame when it comes to site blockages and the owners/creators or copy-written material are not one of them.”
      
      In reality it’s actually the other way around. The parties to blame are the politicians who can’t draft legitimate legislation, and the courts who can’t stand up against censorships demands from fascists, and both those parties in turn are influenced by rights holders alone. People filesharing and other successful free market entrepreneurs are in no way demanding censorship. The blame for censorship obviously always falls on the fascists that demand censorship, the rights holders in this case.
      
      But facts and logical reasoning never were your strong sides, now was it?
  - Pelouze
    
    “But facts and logical reasoning never were your strong sides, now was it? ”
    
    Nor yours either eh freddie.
    
    You really do type a lot of pro piracy rubbish lol.
    - Fredrika
      
      > “Nor yours either..”
      
      Another empty meaningless accusation? As i’ve said before, if there’s anything in what i write that you don’t understand, agree with or can’t accept as it is written, please specify which part, instead of coming up with meaningless accusations, and i’ll explain it to you, with references if needed, from the law, a dictionary, a physics book or a book about logical reasoning.
      
      > “..eh freddie.”
      
      We’ve already established that you can’t restrain from committing ad hominem fallacies such as personal attacks, as you just did again, but you can’t even post a reply to the correct person either?
      
      > “You really do type a lot of pro piracy rubbish..”
      
      Again you’ve seem to have seriously misinterpreted what i’ve written. As explained before i’m in no way pro-piracy. Every single claim i put forward consists only of facts, and seldom any of my personal opinions.
    - Anonymous
      
      If you want to mistake Fredrika’s argument of explicit fact as “pro-piracy” then your problem is bigger than you know as in that case apparently the real world is pro-piracy.
      
      It wouldn’t be the first time you tried to argue from a standpoint exclusively located inside of the boundaries of your own skull though so nothing new there.
Anonymous

If this was SOPA style they would do like one court in the US did. Why wait for SOPA when the Judge ordered both their domain name and money accounts to be seized and turned over to the plaintiff.

Still blocking entire sites including lawful services like MegaUpload for ONE MOVIE seems a very wrong judgement to make. For example this movie could appear on YouTube and what if it does not appear on the blocked sites? Then they have just been punished for an act they did not commit.

Proof India is crazy with pre-emptive punishments (next jail people for future theft) but not as crazy as the United States.
- Guest
  
  India is a country where women exploit the gender biased laws and file false cases against men to ruin their lives. The judicial system is so painfully slow that by the time a man proves himself innocent, he would have already spent 40 years in judicial custody which is no better than prison.
  
  The judicial system facilitates celebs and those with money to never serve their sentences no matter what the crime while the poor languish in prison far longer than their sentence duration. Rare cases when justice is actually served make the headlines because it only happens once in 20 years.
  
  That’s why I am surprised that such stupid orders are passed by judges at the mere request of a corporation without any basis.
http://twitter.com/CheapassFiction AeliusBlythe

Wow.

The lack of understanding by the courts, politicians, and rightsholders is appalling. Hasn’t anyone hear of this little site called “The Pirate Bay” and the continuous failures to block/take them down? Even non-file sharers have heard of that one. So how is it that a single person on the planet still thinks these type of things are worth the time? Again and again I keep thinking people will learn and that they will try some NEW assault, then more news of blocking comes in and I learn that I am more naive than I thought. They never learn.

The only hope, (maybe):
“… In fact, steps such as the John Doe order are the only step that we copyright owners are left with…”

The only step? So they KNOW that their options are closing. Do they know that their one option has already failed a hundred times over and they’ve basically lost already? (Well, ok it’s not the real last step which, I suppose would be to hunt down all the admins of the site as well as all the users and jail them so there is no one left to carry it on. But actually even that would not work–there are too many of us. Fill up their jails….)
- Anonymous
  
  the real logical step is to compete with ‘file sharing’ if they think it is so big a deal and so harmful. i know, all the studies have proven otherwise, but the industries refuse to accept what they dont like. the whole issue is about control, nothing else
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Alyssa Blindy

Blocks are for children, not for websites. And Reliance Entertainment needs to stop staying true to their name and relying on the courts to do everything. SSOPAs (sweeps) like this aren’t going to help anything. They will only make people want to pirate more.
- http://torrentfreak.com/ Rob8urcakes
  
  lol, great wee phrase Alyssa-Babe, “Blocks are for children, not for websites.” and so damned true too.
  
  May I use it elsewhere please, or do you not claim any rights of CopyWrong on it? hehe
  Thanks in advance, with a sneaky wee hug from Scotland.
  - Alyssa Blindy
    
    Well, considering I stole it from someone else, you can most obviously use it. Lol and even if it was my own phrase, you could still use it. I don’t believe much in copy wrong.
Indian

Are these judges in India crazy? How can you pass blanket orders to block fully legit sites to prevent downloading of one or two movies? How the hell do these nincompoops come to the conclusion that everyone uses sites like MU for piracy? Its like the judges in India bend over and take it up the arse whenever Reliance tell them to.

What these fools don’t realize is that by trying to prevent online piracy, they are inevitably increasing counterfeiting. Nearly every neighborhood in India has counterfeit stores selling bootlegged DVDs for around 30-50 cents. The smart ones of the current generation are promoting online filesharing so that these counterfeiters go out of business but Reliance is doing the opposite by trying to stop online filesharing. In India, any movie is destined to fail without word of mouth and what better way to spread the word that online filesharing?
- Guest
  
  I’m confused. What’s the difference between getting a counterfeit copy and downloading a pirated copy, besides the money? I don’t really see why we should care about counterfeiting if we don’t care about piracy. I mean, they aren’t lying about what they have, so they aren’t being fraudulent… so why do we care? It seems that if we insist that people have the inherent and unalienable right to share all the culture they want, then they should have an equal right to sell it too.
  - Indian
    
    The idea is that if you like a movie and have the money to buy it, then you should buy it from the people who made it to reward them and if you don’t have any money to buy but you like it, you download it online and spread the good word about the movie.
    
    Why pay money to the middle men (counterfeiters) and make them rich when they had zero contribution in making something you loved? Middle men are a blight upon society everywhere in the world. A part of the reason why many people have boycotted purchasing music is because the labels (middle man) get all the money and the artists make peanuts in comparison. The fight is to eliminate the middle men everywhere and filesharing is a great medium to take the fight to them.
    - Guest
      
      What do middle men have to do with this? I thought the fight was to preserve basic civil rights, including the right to upload and download anything because other people shouldn’t be able to restrict your property. The only reason that the corporations are bad is because they restrict this right. That’s why we dislike the corporations, even though the marketing and investment they offer helps artists get off the ground. Their only flaw is in restricting what people can do with their property. The counterfeiters didn’t restrict me. They didn’t tell me what I can and can’t do. Therefore, I don’t see why they should be demonized. Heck, I don’t even see them as being that different from a hypothetical filesharing site that relies on add revenue, but is only visited enough to support itself because it carries “infringing” content. The only difference is plausible deniability.
      
      You say that the reason people should pay the artist is because they like the product; well, I say that if they like it, let them find the person they’re supposed to pay. If a counterfeiter claims that they are the creating artist or that they are in any way connected, arrest them for fraud. If they don’t, and they’re just offering copies, then it falls on the consumer to find the person they want to pay.
      
      To simplify that; giving money to an artist in exchange for something you have already watched is charity because they have no good or service to offer you at that point in exchange for your money. In charity, it is your burden to find the person or group you want to be charitable to. The only thing we can prosecute for there is fraud. If counterfeiters commit fraud by lying about who they are, arrest them. Otherwise, let them be. They have commited no crime. They may be assholes, but then again, I’ve heard people call me an asshole for downloading dozens of movies without paying, and I can’t really call them wrong. It’s fine to be an asshole, so long as you aren’t violating anyone else’s rights.
      
      I also disagree with your labeling of corporations as simply “middle men”. A counterfeiter is a middle man; their only role is in distribution. The corporations do offer more, including investment, marketing, review/editing and start-up services. If you want to beat the corporations, you’ll need to understand that their services cater to the artists, and that without developing similar services, the filesharing movement isn’t going to progress nearly as quickly as it can. We need a way to give the artists those same services easily and efficiently. Then we can pull the artists away from the corporations and end this nice and simply.
Successfulmingle Com

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He is so freaken amazing looking- geez louise!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gosh I’m gushing-lol
http://www.YouMeUs.in linusr

doubt court gave them permission to block entire website. will know if someone appeals against reliance entertainment.

previous judgements where to remove specific post or content
Anonymous

“In fact, steps such as the John Doe order are the only step that we copyright owners are left with.”

I just got a mental image of one of these executives beating his head against a brick wall and then complaining about how the wall is hurting him.
- Anonymous
  
  Actually the executive in question would be suing the guy who built the wall…
  
  Other than that, good comparison.
Dsa

MAFIAAFire what are you doing these days????Not updating your lists regularly?Last I checked(3 days back), I still couldn’t access Extratorrent,Filesonic,Fileserve,Rapidshare,Mediafire,Megaupload and every other file-sharing site because I have(sadly) a RCom BB connection and it seems the wimps are resorting to blocking whole websites in the name of the law, when they can’t stop DVDScreeners leaking from their corporate ‘good-for-nothingness’!!!!!

Down with SOPA,down with GoDaddy,down with Reliance.
- http://torrentfreak.com/ Rob8urcakes
  
  You need to use MAFIAAfire’s own “Report a Site” to get it included in their latest updates.
  http://www.mafiaafire.com/report_site.php
  
  If no-one bothers to ask them to redirect, how will they know to do it, huh?
  Maybe it’s done by magic …
  lol
- Guest
  
  Um…GoDaddy has withdrawn support for SOPA. So I say Go Daddy! lol.
Kutti Q

stupid
Anonymous

It would have been nice had Mega fought this one in Court where it should be an easy win.

Point out they are a lawful company following DMCA law and should a user upload this movie without their knowledge then the production only need to ask them to remove it. Maybe they could get the whole blockage revoked… if they cared to. I expect some lawyer in India would welcome the job.

Best fight censorship wherever it appears or it would only spread like a disease.
- Anonymous
  
  i dont know what the latest is over the Mega vs UMG case but perhaps they are concentrating on that rather than have 2 cases going at once.
  
  censorship has already spread worldwide. it is worse than any disease in the speed that it has spread and the effects that it has had. i still think that the entertainment industries are the willing scape goats here. once they have control of the ‘net, governments will remove it and take over themselves. in the mean time, it’s the industries that are getting all the heat. governments hate what they cant control or get money from and the free-flow of information between countries is a definite no-no in their eyes!
  - Anonymous
    
    I believe Mega is already involved in multiple cases. Alas I don’t have the details to hand and only recall their Perfect 10 cases which was more recently dropped in an out of court settlement.
    
    I doubt it would be a big issue for them if they wanted to fight this India block but so many countries and so many blocks.
    
    What would be most nice would be to see another Judge point out how stupid this first Judge was. It seems that many Judges can be fooled into anything if they only hear half the story.
- http://torrentfreak.com/ Rob8urcakes
  
  I reckon MegaUpload and all other blocked sites should sue both Reliance AND the Indian gov’t for losses suffered as a direct consequence of this tremendously stupid Court decision which will affect the revenue and reputation of the blocked sites.
  
  After all, none of these blocked sites were even a party in the Court proceedings and therefore had no opportunity to advise the Court of the wrongdoing requested by Reliance.
  Consequently, none of the blocked sites may appeal against the decision as they weren’t involved at all, yet they will suffer losses.
  
  Indian High Court = Epic FAIL
  
  For blocked sites to rely on simply hope that the affected ISPs will appeal the decision is utterly unfair and unjust.
  - Guest
    
    Meh…ISPs in India couldn’t care less about its customers. Its evident from pathetic speeds and service provided by all ISPs across the country. Not a single ISP exists which provides reliable 24×7 broadband, whose very definition is that its an “always on” connection.
    
    Furthermore in most areas customers don’t have the freedom of choosing from more than one ISP. Many areas don’t even have any ISP. So ISPs can afford to treat customers like peasants here.
- Guest
  
  Every other day some country or the other is blocking Megaupload and similar sites for one lame reason or the other. Its definitely not possible for Mega to fight for their rights in every country. It would financially sink the company.
UniversalSoldier

Although I download thru torrents and don’t use megaupload, I am getting my reliance broadband disconnected since I hate any type of foolish censorship..
BTW http://www.megaupload.com is blocked but megaupload.com (without www) is still working.. Foolish reliance..
Alec Baldwin, Nigga.

I am going to download their shit movie and then delete it after confirming it was a legit copy. The fuck if I’d actually watch that crap…”The one-time police informer sets his sights on the European underworld.” Fucking Yawn. Good luck “forcing” people to watch this tripe in the theaters …
- Alec Baldwin, Nigga.
  
  I came back to say, Wow, just wow. Gotta love the generic singing/dancing sequences in every…fucking…Bollywood… movie….no thanks VoluntaryInternetPolice/RelianceCommunucainment/Prestige Worldwide…ShiftDel the funky Spacebarian, thanks for the 1s and 0s in the shape of a crap film, don’t worry, I made sure it was deleted for you so no one would ever, ever watch it accidentally, thinking it might be a quality film.
  - Guest
    
    A bunch of thugs rob a bank and murder a few people. 5 minutes later they start dancing on the streets with half naked girls performing as backup dancers behind our hero who happens to be the gang leader and the police performing as backup dancers for our heroine.
    
    That’s Indian cinema for you.
Dueep Jyot Singh

All right guys, here is the situation from an Indian.
Yes the judicial system is in the hands of people who can pay. I wrote a letter of protest to one of the papers but it will not be published.
Here is the letter verbatim-

Reliance telecom services’ arbitrary illegal and strong-arming tactic of blocking a number of P2P websites since Friday last not only smacks of setting up a dangerous precedence, but also gives its existing customers a taste of the things to come. This should show people using broadband services how easy it is for service providers to block sites just to show that they are in control. We are not living in a police state and the fast dwindling client list of Reliance services will agree with me that this blocking of sites like megaupload, filesonic, fileserve and other filesharing sites is totally unjustifiable, and capricious. Reliance is definitely not a government agency monitoring the morals, the principles and the activities of its clients. So one demands that necessary steps are taken against them and any other broadband service providers who think it is their duty to block access to Internet sites, on their own whim.
These things happen only in India because of the systems tendency to try idiotic stunts just for fun! If we protest it’ll be modified. If we don’t protest companies like Reliance will try out another idiotic caper and we’ll let them get away with it. This is the way the cookie crumbles in India.
http://www.accountancystudents.net/ accountancystudents.net

controlling piracy is almost impossible…..:p
- Anonymous
  
  “Almost”?
  
  Try “Completely” instead. Yes, in theory you could control piracy. That necessitates re-building the internet from scratch and up the actual manpower for maintenance by a factor of a thousand or more.
  
  In essence you’d need to convert it into a corporate intranet. And you’d have to abolish a lot of services currently running fully legally.
Anon

mega should set up their own legal lobby body they must be able to out spend and bribe in India surely?
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No-ww3

Avaxhome block now on dns italy. news.
$deity

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ must be being hammered – the site errors out with a 503 – “This application is temporarily over its serving quota. Please try again later.”

Must be a lot of people in India testing if megaupload is down.
- Sandra de Palma
  
  @deity: Try http://www.isup.me , which is working.
townie2

perhaps the U.S. is using India as a proxie for a test run of SOPA.
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Tr

same nightmare , different day.
http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Anderson/100000208969581 John Anderson

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Vjgvhg

I was about to go and watch this movie with my friends, but now after reading this article, we will cancel out plan and watch it at home instead. (Dvd Scr is good though). Fuck Reliance
Fhgfhf

fuck it
UniversalSoldier

All sites are unblocked now..
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Akinari Anzai

something like this also happen in my fuckin country, Malaysia.. the government block top 10 file sharing like megaupload etc.. it’s realy frustrating me becuse the gud-for-nothing PM said the government would never put any internet cencorship yet they still block it…
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Test

I had 4year membership paid and GBs of my own original video content there I shared there for personal and business purposes. And who it going to refund this? How am I supposed to host and share my own video??? Die in hell, US!
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Test

just block US. because of these pricks got my business staff blocked on megaupoad, where I got 4-year membership paid, by the way. are americans going to compensate my losses? I doubt. screw them, just block this joke-of-a-country from all online services. let’s them have their intranet like Chinese without blackjack and hookers
- LovePets
  
  Hey I am in usa and i agree with you, our stupid goverment is kissing our entertainments corp ass and pushing their weight around all over the world. they talk bout losses, well quit paying an actor almost a million dollars per episode just for a 30 min sitcom. our entertainment industry just another example of rich get richer poor get poorer. but now lot of us poor are cant give anymore money they are pissed.
unworthy person

when does megaupload will return? hope it more faster
Kook

Piracy and illegally copying all kinds of files and documents is becoming normal for people all around the world. What if the author does not want you to have it for one click of a button? Why should these sites that encourage thievery remain?
I support actions to close down these sites. Enough with information theft. Civilizations should work harder to produce information…harder than copy paste.
Jason

The truth is in the below link, thanks DoJ for illegally destroying our files on Thursday:

http://pastebin.com/iquHfjBa
Apoorv

Hi friends
I applaud as to what DoT has done by blocking the foreign websites in India. Even though currently only megaupload is blocked, but it still instills the fear in the mind of other server providers still operational in India. It is stated that in future other websites like fileserve,rapidshare,filesonic etc will also be blocked.
Pros:-
1) Will decrease piracy to some extent
2) People will start going and purchasing movies or watching them which will further boost the economic growth which stands at 7.4% currently
Con:-
1) In a country like india i believe that there is no end to piracy. If a certain website is blocked todyay tommorrow many other will come.
2) India is a developing country and the process to educate all is paramount. If all these file sharing websites are permanently blocked, they will defy the primary reason to start these websites(i.e) to share education related files.
3) If porn websites are also blocked, it is possible that the amount of prostitution,rape,harassing will rise as people do have their needs.

Suggestions:-
1) The limit to upload on each server can be brought down to 10mb so that it becomes difficult to upload the movies.(will have to come up for some solution for songs also)
2) The broadband and data card service of unlimited download should strictly be stopped.
3) IP address will have to be monitored to some extent to determine a large upload or download and fine should be pressed upon them.
Harshwalia49

fuck………….thats why I hate indian judicial law
DealBreaker

Started seeding 3 torrents of Don 2. Reliance Ind really caught my eye. You know what is ironic, my ISP has a reliance backbone….
It’s time these people learnt about a proxy or a VPN.
DealBreaker

Also i have my eyes set on Dangerous Ishhq and Ekk Deewana Tha. And fuck i dont even speak the language and literally hate hindi movies…
Configure a proxy, go to TPB and download any one of the top three most seeded torrents of Reliance produced movies. Any language. I’ll be seeding you, FOREVER.
BTW remember to enable encryption in your torrent client.
DealBreaker

Just noticed.Just add ssl to the url like – https://thepiratebay.se/
and the shit just loads….
And to think i was just trying to subscribe to a VPN!!!!.
Anonymous

ok fuck. MTNL just blocked all torrents & VIMEO (are they fucking retarded!!). fuck.. the world will end if they stop piracy. something has to be done.. now NOWNOWNOWNOW
Babkrish

I DONT THINK RELIANCE IS STUPID ENOUGH TO BLOCK ALL THE SITES. THERE SHOULD BE SOME MISTAKE. I AM SURE RELIANCE WILL WAKE UP FOR ITS OWN GOOD
Torrent Fan

many of the films are not available to buy online or in the retail outlets.. when people want to see other language films this is their most resort, i dono how this is piracy, will the judges make it available for all – all the movies… every person has his own interests in movies, how can they just blind an eye to the freedom of viewing movies which are not available in retail outlets or online for purchase. i have also seen that a movie DVD r Blueray of the same brand is much costlier than that i get in the retail shops.
Actually that film, for which this was done, is very similar to the previous movie of the same actor… n my parents mostly comment on the director only as a ‘psycho’… all his films are psycho as far a they know…. Individuals need entertainment not ways to expose their psycho and they feel is way to teach such Ps new ways to behave….

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