VLC-Developer VideoLAN Sends Legal Notice To Indian Ministries Over Ban (techcrunch.com) 12
VideoLAN, the developer and operator of popular media player VLC, has filed a legal notice to India's IT and Telecom ministries, alleging that the Indian bodies failed to notify the software developer prior to blocking the website and did not afford it a chance for an explanation. From a report: Indian telecom operators have been blocking VideoLAN's website, where it lists links to downloading VLC, since February of this year, VideoLan president and lead developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf told TechCrunch in an earlier interview. India is one of the largest markets for VLC. "Most major ISPs [internet service providers] are banning the site, with diverse techniques," he said of the blocking in India. The telecom operators began blocking the VideoLan website on February 13 of this year, when the site saw a drop of 80% in traffic from the South Asian market, he said. Now, VideoLAN, in assistance with local advocacy group Internet Freedom Foundation, is using legal means to get answers and redressal. It has sought a copy of the blocking order for banning VideoLAN website in India and an opportunity to defend the case through a virtual hearing. In the notice, VideoLAN argues that the way Indian ministries have enforced the ban on the website, they violate their own local laws.
Face palm ... (Score:5, Insightful)
Let me see if I have this right ... allegedly, Chinese hackers were distributing hacked versions of VLC that send the data of Indian citizens back to China. The Indian government response is to block the site where you could get the actual legitimate hack-free version of it, which will drive their citizens right into the hands of purveyors of dubious warez to get a copy, just making the problem worse. They don't even do this right, as not all ISPs are blocking it (although it seems that the major ones generally are), and in the light of actual evidence they simply dig in, continue to be silent, and continue to block.
My faith that we are, as a species, are going to "make it" diminishes daily.
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> My faith that we are, as a species, are going to "make it" diminishes daily.
The doddering bureaucrats are currently threatening global thermonuclear war and the normies think it's OK to just keep the current system and vote harder.
You may be right.
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>the normies think it's OK to just keep the current system and vote harder.
YES, so much this.
First-past-the-post is the very bottom-of-the-barrel version of democracy. It promotes strategic voting, which inevitably leads to 2 parties dominating...so there's only 2 parties for the wealthy and corporations to buy off.
CGP Grey does a great job of explaining this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Re: Face palm ... (Score:2)
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Why would you say that? We're going to "make it" for sure. I hate to do an "Idiocracy" but when all else is lost, people still fuck.
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Road to Perdition, (2002) makes a passing point that in unstable times, morality and the concept of future, disappear.
Post-apocalyptic stories are wrong in that they don't describe the mega-wealthy. It's the poor and middle-class forming into tribes and fighting each other for dwindling resources but the rich will have a bunker full of toys, weapons and food that can keep them alive for years. They will simply wait for a war of attrition to kill everybody and emerge owners of an empty planet that will b
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> ..dig in, continue to be silent, and continue to block ..
Its a largely passive culture, and./or an honour/shame culture and/or a power/weakness culture..... depending on who or which individuals are involved.
You, we, the west are not present to jerk the chain.. they stay passive.
You, we, the west are not present so we cannot 'shame' them.
You, we, the west are not present so we are 'weak' in the cultural sphere which shapes their actions.
Hence nobody does anything, it not safe to do so anyway, and unles
Aspiration vs reality (Score:5, Funny)
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maybe they could contract a local tech company to help...