If the Indian government doesn’t respond, what measures does VideoLAN, being based out of France, reasonably have? They can’t really sue the Indian authorities.
They can. It's likely the Internet Freedom Foundation will assist them in doing that.
I can't say we are doing the best things but at least you can still bring the govt to court here in India. Judicial system here is slow, but it at least still works...
Defaults in India are very fast.