Internet users enraged over blocking of file-sharing sites
While the world celebrated World Internet Day on Thursday, netizens in India woke up to popular file sharing sites blocked by Internet Service Providers. This was following a recent John Doe order by the Madras High Court, on a suit filed by the city-based Copyright Labs for preventing piracy of Tamil Film 3 and a Telugu movie Dammu. Users who try to access these sites got to see the message, “Access to this site has been blocked as per Court Orders.” The Madras High Court had issued an interim injunction on March 29 wherein 3 the ISPs including MTNL, Bharti Airtel, Aircel Cellular, Hathway Cable and Datacom, Vodafone India, Idea Cellular, Reliance Communications and TATA Teleservices were directed against allowing infringement of copyright through the communication, duplication, downloading and uploading of content without a proper licence. “Instead of blocking specific URLs that were screening the movie, they blocked the whole sites,” he said.. “Anyway, enough damage has been done since the action was taken only 45 days after the movie got released,” he added. “While Sites such as You Tube provide specific tools to remove content, thereby respecting the copyright order, others such as Daily Motion don't even reply to mails,” he said.
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