After weeks of confusion and
frustration with blocked websites, the mess finally looks to be
clearing. Indians are all heaving a sigh of relief because their ISPs
have unblocked the access to the file-sharing, video-streaming
BitTorrent sites that include The Pirate Bay, Torrentz.eu, Vimeo among
others.
It was in news last month that
following Reliance, Airtel had also blocked torrent services and video
sites after they received the ‘John Doe’ court order. Thousands of users
from various states of India found the access to torrents blocked.
India's Medianama is reporting
today that the Madras High Court recently limited a badly drafted April
ruling on the subject. The court said in its updated ruling, according
to Medianama, which obtained a copy of it, that "the interim
injunction is granted only in respect of a particular URL where the
infringing movie is kept and not in respect of the entire website.
Further, the applicant is directed to inform about the particulars of
URL where the interim movie is kept within 48 hours."
MediaNama reports that the
Madras High Court, on an appeal filed by a conglomerate of Internet
Service Providers (ISPs), has passed an order saying that entire
websites cannot be blocked on the basis of "John Doe" orders.
Starting with the movie Singham,
for which Reliance Entertainment had taken a John Doe order last year,
movie studios have been consistently getting John Doe orders blocking
access to file sharing, video sharing and torrenting websites.
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