India starts blocking file storage websites


Recommended Posts

What an idiotic move by the Department of Telecom (DOT). BTW, I am on MTNL and typing www.rapidshare.com shows me this:

2pzmag8.png

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.

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

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?

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:

^^ 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.

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...........

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.

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

This topic is now closed to further replies.
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
  • Posts

    • Microsoft's fast coding model MAI-Code-1-Flash comes to Copilot Business and Enterprise by Karthik Mudaliar Microsoft’s recently announced MAI-Code-1-Flash model is now generally available to GitHub Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise customers. With this support, organizations can have more centralized policy controls and billing while finally being able to use Microsoft’s lightweight, first-party coding model. According to GitHub’s announcement, Business and Enterprise plan administrators must enable the MAI-Code-1-Flash policy in Copilot settings before developers can access the model. Microsoft says that MAI-Code-1-Flash is for fast, iterative coding work rather than the most demanding architectural or debugging tasks. GitHub’s official model comparison page says that the model is great for "general-purpose coding and writing," while it excels at fast, accurate code completions and explanations Microsoft introduced MAI-Code-1-Flash on June 2 as part of a broader collection of internally developed MAI models. GitHub subsequently expanded support to Copilot CLI, the Copilot cloud agent, GitHub.com chat, GitHub Mobile, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, Eclipse, and Xcode, but said support for managed Business and Enterprise customers was still on the way. In Microsoft’s own benchmark testing, MAI-Code-1-Flash scored 51.2% on SWE-Bench Pro, compared with 35.2% for Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 4.5. Microsoft also claimed that the model used up to 60% fewer tokens on SWE-Bench Verified. Do note that these are vendor-run results rather than independent measurements. The model is billed at provider list pricing under GitHub’s usage-based system. GitHub currently lists MAI-Code-1-Flash at $0.75 per million input tokens, $0.075 per million cached input tokens, and $4.50 per million output tokens. For organizations, the main incentive to use MAI-Code-1-Flash is likely to be efficiency rather than maximum capability. A smaller model that responds quickly and limits unnecessary output is quite useful for repetitive agent tasks at scale, especially after GitHub Copilot’s move toward usage-based billing. The "Flash" model is recommended for fast work and not necessarily for huge repositories with loads of context. It's better if teams compare their output with other larger models, especially if they're working on security-sensitive changes and complex, multi-file work.
    • yes AND no the "original" or plain/normal Optiplex 7010 won't be getting any more new firmware updates BUT the Optiplex SFF/SFF Plus {small form factor}, Micro/Micro Plus & Tower/Tower Plus 7010 editions DO get new updates such as this new one   and here are similar guides from the Dell web site for Dell systems: https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000390990/secure-boot-transition-faq https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000347876/microsoft-2011-secure-boot-certificate-expiration
    • AT&T has been spying on US citizens with the NSA for decades.. they just know how to keep it more under wraps.. the evil level is still there.
  • Recent Achievements

    • One Year In
      bernmeister earned a badge
      One Year In
    • Week One Done
      Scoobystu earned a badge
      Week One Done
    • Week One Done
      tuben earned a badge
      Week One Done
    • First Post
      OffsetAbs earned a badge
      First Post
    • Reacting Well
      OffsetAbs earned a badge
      Reacting Well
  • Popular Contributors

    1. 1
      +primortal
      455
    2. 2
      +Edouard
      206
    3. 3
      PsYcHoKiLLa
      157
    4. 4
      FloatingFatMan
      71
    5. 5
      Steven P.
      68
  • Tell a friend

    Love Neowin? Tell a friend!