Loading blocked URLs is apparently punishable by 3 years jail and Rs. 3 lakh fine in India

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We like to legislate unimplementable, classic WTF laws, the latest in case being the surrogacy nonsense. Who is the Govt. to tell me I can't be over 55 if I want to be a father? Or that I have to be married? Or that I have to be straight and childless in the first place? Why can't I have a kid through surrogacy if I'm a 56-yr old unmarried gay man (or woman) with a biological child from an earlier relationship?

This isn't unlike the ban on smoking in public places or the blurring of smoking and drinking images on-screen, thanks to the moronic Ambumani Ramadoss. How's that outdoor smoking ban working out for everybody? Or for that matter the ban on selling tobacco products near schools? For fcuk's sakes, forget tambaku, we all know there are illegal thekas (liquor shops) within yards of many educational institutes across the country.

you had two penalties for using quotes unnecessarily. the warnings are sent to your message center. i have removed it for now.

Thanks for unblocking me, I appreciate the gesture, but in my 17 years of using teh interwebz this is the first time I've been 'warned' on a forum for anything. That too, for using quotes that do not have any heavy media content? Oh well. Your forum, your rules, I guess. No harm, no foul.

P.S. - I'm officially butthurt LOL.

 

[Sushubh]

Well. After more than 10 years or running a forum... I finally enabled an automated message to new registrations so that they get alerted about these rules that might be unique to this forum as soon as they join the forum. Now it's up to them to decide if they are going to read it or not!

 

[Saurabh Srivastava]

Ok in a nutshell someone please explain me if I download something illegal via torrent will government initiate an action against me or no action will be initiated till original copyright holder files a case against me?

 

[Sushubh]

government is not going to come after you unless a complaint is filed by the copyright holder.
you are taking a risk of getting caught if you are downloading copyrighted material from the internet without taking any precautions.
copyright holders might not be going after downloaders right now but they would eventually so it's better to be safe than sorry.
depending upon how long the isps are required to maintain logs, you might be at risk for a long time for what you do today.

 

[volcano619]

Imagine like government going after 10-20% of India's population..do you think its feasible ??
These things works in countries like US,Europe because of perfectly implied Cyber laws(also the persons involved to regulate it) and the amount of people involved actually in doing the crime.
India has lot more on its table to deal with

 

[Sushubh]

mmm. they do not have to go after 10-20% of the population. they just have to go after a small number and get a few people jailed for a few months to set the fear in the mind of the masses.

internationally, content creators give an option of paying a monetary fine instead of jail time to copyright violators. so they can actually start charging a particular fee per file from the violators. this is very feasible and worth the effort.

and then there is the other option. get the courts to instruct ISPs to blacklist repeat offenders. you would lose your internet connection and also barred from getting service from another service provider for a particular time period.

depends upon which route the content creators take, they can go after a small percentage or a large number of people.

 

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[volcano619]

Yea but even countries like US,Europe don't impose such strict actions,they just send some notices now and then
Do you think India would make such a move...[emoji14]

 

[Sushubh]

What option does India has if the content owners go after consumers? Government does not decide what to do with complaints. The law does. Courts have issued rather stupid judgements on cases filed by content owners in the past. Blocking access to complete domains because the content owners are too lazy to file complaints against constantly changing individual urls.

 

[volcano619]

Let me put it this way,even if the content providers go after the people and they use the law to enforce something,then I think its not going to make any difference or may not be as strict as our fellow neighbours are imposing upon their citizens..
Not to mention the corruption rate in our judicial law system,this is just going to slip away..

 

[Saurabh Srivastava]

Copyright owner can pay higher bribe than individuals to the system to get some people punished to teach lessons to offenders.