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

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Ouch said:
well the important part here is that you can go to jail for downloading pirated media from the internet. most people find it hard to believe this. it's better to be safe than sorry. these warnings are already pushing more people to explore VPNs so that's a good thing.
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The govt that sends people to jail for downloading content wont last 2 days in India.

Has anyone been sent to jail anywhere for downloading content?
 
What if a friend sends me a link to site named "www . nice name here . com" which I am unaware that it is blocked OR hosts illegal content.

How will I ever know without clicking on it that it is not legal?
 
^ A friend would probably not do that, but the same thing can be done by websites.
 
You just made me click it and realize its torrent site!
 
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Yea but you don't know if it's legal..because government's notice does not pop up [emoji14] and it's sushubh who shared with us..[emoji1]
 

the fault lies with airtel. they are delivering their message over http. the website is running on https. most browsers does not load http content on https domains by default. so the message is not loaded at all. if you enable loading of unsecure content, the message from airtel would come.

why airtel? because the website is using cloudflare. and airtel is inserting this message between cloudflare servers and website's own host servers. so even if you are on reliance, you see the warning from airtel.

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http://www.airtel.in/dot/?dpid=1&dpruleid=3&cat=107&ttl=0&groupname=-&policyname=-&username=-&userip=162.158.55.38&connectionip=127.0.0.1&nsphostname=Policy04-Chennai&protocol=policyprocessor&dplanguage=-&url=http%3a%2f%2fzooqle%2ecom%2f
 
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. 😱

Ouch said:
you had two penalties for using quotes unnecessarily. the warnings are sent to your message center. i have removed it for now.
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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. 😀
 
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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!
 
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?
 
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.
 
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
 

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