Indian ISP Blocks A Bunch Of Websites

The title is not correct. A movie studio, Reliance Entertainment, won a case in the court where the judge ordered ban of a few sites such as Megaupload. Given that it is a court order, ISPs (all of them) had to block it.

In this case, it is the court which is responsible for such sweeping judgement and not a single ISP. I guess the fact that Reliance also owns an ISP resulted in a confused title.

I'm one among those unlucky Reliance subscribers who were thrown this 'website blocked' page a couple of days back. The only reason I'm still with Reliance is that they don't have any data cap on the usage and has decent customer service.

Though they 'thought' they blocked these sites, I was able to access them by just removing 'www' from the url (Lucky me :)). FYI, they are using Netsweeper for filtering and the admin login page for the same is open to the public ;)

Insane. Indian lower courts are crazy. If someone appeals to higher courts it will get overturned in no time. Thankfully, things are working from other ISPs, so it's a reliance only thing.

I'm using Reliance broadband from India. www.megaupload.com is working for me right now.

Perhaps it's relevant that I'm using 8.8.8.8 for DNS?

Needs more information about the court order and which court issued it..

It's working from BSNL, only Reliance might have blocked it.

I'd call and say 'Fuck you Reliance'!! And I'd just switch my ISP , there are people waiting to give you a internet connection. Just because they have power doesnt mean they can misuse it. And I'm sure this blockade won't last long.

PS:Is Reliance trying to recreate Godaddy scene in India ? :P