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Supreme Court website hacked in response to TPB, Vimeo block

An official report by BGR.in, who also managed to secure a copy of the John Doe order confirms that Indian ISPs ...

May 17, 2012 / 16:55 IST
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It's now confirmed news that Indian ISPs are blocking torrent sites like The Pirate Bay and websites like Vimeo following a court order pushed for by Copyright Labs, a Chennai-based firm at the Madras High Court. A copy of the John Doe order, dated 29th of March, 2012 now confirms that the Chennai-based firm secured the John Doe order in the light of two movies - Dhammu (Tamil) and 3 (Telugu). The court order, which can be read at this link lists the Indian ISPs which will block these sites completely. These ISPs include - BSNL, MTNL, Bharti Airtel, Aircel Cellular, Hathway Cable and Dotcom, Sistema Shyam Teleservices, Vodafone India, Idea Cellular, Reliance Communications, Tata Teleservices, O-Zone Networks, Tikona Digital Networks, BG Broadband India, Sify Technologies, among others. Quoting the CEO of Copyright Labs, Harish Ram, the report states, "We have been fighting for this for long and it seems the ISPs are finally responding." Click here for full story

first published: May 17, 2012 04:46 pm

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