neo1911 Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 What an idiotic move by the Department of Telecom (DOT). BTW, I am on MTNL and typing www.rapidshare.com shows me this: But typing rapidshare.com opens the website as normal. (They are not blocking it right?) Users are complaining about other ISPs and Twitter should be abuzz!! Source I hope other countries don't follow suit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Worthington Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 Glad I don't live there. Other parts of Asia will likely follow suit, along with major countries in Europe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Techno_Funky Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 Huh! Who peed in their soup today :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
primexx Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 Try changing your DNS to OpenDNS or Google and see if it's still blocked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pers3us Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 Huh! Who peed in their soup today :blink: heh .. no Firefox eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Techno_Funky Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 Using google DNS here and its still bocked. Like Sanke said they have blocked sites as "www.rapidshare.com" but if you directly type in rapidshare.com it opens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Rambo Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 Opening fine for me. (MTNL Delhi User) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Techno_Funky Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 heh .. no Firefox eh? There you go :p Nope blocked, MTNL Mumbai here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MS Bob 11 Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 Such freaking idiots. Why are they blocking entire domains? I couldn't download some legitime Windows hotfixes by request (HFRs) yesterday from mediafire.com. India ALWAYS has this problem every once in a while. Last time, they blocked the entire Blogger domain instead of blocking whatever specific blog at Blogger they wanted to block. LOSERS. And the reason is the lamest I've ever heard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saurabh32 Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 i think that they are not currently restricting https pages. so try to connect rapidshare with https://www.rapidshare.com/ also change ur DNS to opendns or google as primexx said Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guru Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 That aside, this is not the first time that India has faced Internet censorship from ISPs with several Indian ISPs recently blocking Typepad.com, Mobango.com and Clickatell.com without warning in March this year, claiming that it was ordered by DoT to do so, while the latter revealed in an RTI request filed by Medianama that it hadn?t ordered ISPs to block the sites in question. http://thenextweb.com/in/2011/07/21/indian-isp-airtel-starts-blocking-file-sharing-websites/?awesm=tnw.to_1A4VJ&utm_campaign=&utm_medium=tnw.to-other&utm_source=direct-tnw.to&utm_content=spreadus_master however, this time it seems to be govt directive. seriously wtf? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duffydemon Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 Working fine here ( BSNL Chandigarh user ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FE4RL3SS Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 Yet again governments controlling the internet and media. So much for free speech and freedom of the internet eh? :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guru Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 Files Sharing Sites Blocked In India Because Reliance BIG Pictures Got A Court Order http://www.medianama.com/2011/07/223-files-sharing-sites-blocked-in-india-because-reliance-big-pictures-got-a-court-order/ :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Growled Member Posted July 21, 2011 Member Share Posted July 21, 2011 So block a whole domain just because one movie studio got their panties twisted? Wicked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liju Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 Everything fine here. I'm on BSNL (National Internet Backbone - II), Kerala. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legendkiller Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 My link Working fine here. Don't quite understand the need for this topic............Should have checked facts, before saying that "India has blocked (all) file storage websites"..................you are listing only rapidshare here, that's not the only file-sharing website..... :angry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo1911 Posted July 22, 2011 Author Share Posted July 22, 2011 ^^ Way to crash into a party after it's over. If it wasn't for all the online buzz, this would have got out of hand. If you never knew, almost all file sharing websites were banned by Airtel and Reliance 2 days ago. It was first reported on broadbandforum.in. Bandwidth is still expensive in India. The real reason for these ISP's was to save their own bandwidth. For ISP's it's like aiming by keeping gun on some one else's shoulder. Get the real picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legendkiller Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 I live in Delhi and use Airtel and so do many of my friends..........and its certainly not blocked.......and also by posting this on a global forum.......will not make the PM sit up and take notice..... Go and use torrent websites to download ur stuff........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Techno_Funky Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 I live in Delhi and use Airtel and so do many of my friends..........and its certainly not blocked.......and also by posting this on a global forum.......will not make the PM sit up and take notice..... Go and use torrent websites to download ur stuff........... Huh! WTF! are you Daft or something, please just go back to the cave you just came from. And FYI! this is also front page news on Neowin, go figure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legendkiller Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 Huh! WTF! are you Daft or something, please just go back to the cave you just came from. And FYI! this is also front page news on Neowin, go figure. Really typical of people who spend their days chatting and using "funky" language that you just used............ :p :D . good on you mate. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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