The Indian Music Industry (IMI), an industry consortium of 142 Music Companies, has obtained orders from the Calcutta High Court directing all Internet Service Providers (387 ISPs) to block 104 music websites. Court orders were obtained on 27th of January, 6th February, and the 1st and 2nd of March 2012.
ISPs have been directed by the court to block all 104 websites within 36 hours of passing the orders. It essentially has the order against Songs.pk as a sample. Apurv Nagpal, CEO of Saregama, told MediaNama that the first order was against Songs.pk, and subsequent court orders covered the rest of the sites. The IMI made a case against each website, he added, with proof of piracy of content from labels by each site.
Indian content businesses have increasingly been taking the legal route to combat piracy:
T-Series filed lawsuits against several major companies like YouTube (which was later settled), MySpace, Yahoo and Ibibo, and even got the founders of Guruji.com arrested. Reliance BIG Pictures began getting generic “John Doe” orders trying to force filesharing sites to prevent movie uploads, and getting some of them blocked. This is by far the biggest anti-piracy initiative till date.
The court has asked ISPs to block the sites using any of the three methods:
1. DNS Name Blocking: Which ISPs use to for looking up IP addresses corresponding to domain names. However, it's possible for filesharing sites to change their domain names..
2. IP Address Blocking Using Routers:
However, this method is possible for sites to be hosted on alternate servers, once blocked. So, this might not entirely address the issue..
3. DPI Based URL Blocking:
This mechanism involves configuring the ISP’s network management system to monitor traffic by means of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and reset or block a customer's connection to specific Uniform Resource Locators (URLs). DPI-based URL Blocking is necessary can be used to block only a portion of a website.
Now, what this means is, The information docket lists each of the 387 ISPs in India, to block all the 104 music sites, and certain legitimate sites in India, which provide legal options for consumers:
Saregama, Nokia Music, Flipkart, Cyworld, 7digital, Gaana*, In, IndiaONE, Meridhun, MyBand, Raaga, Radio One, Saavn, Dhingana, Artist Aloud and Telugu One.
ISPs have been directed by the court to block all 104 websites within 36 hours of passing the orders. It essentially has the order against Songs.pk as a sample. Apurv Nagpal, CEO of Saregama, told MediaNama that the first order was against Songs.pk, and subsequent court orders covered the rest of the sites. The IMI made a case against each website, he added, with proof of piracy of content from labels by each site.
Indian content businesses have increasingly been taking the legal route to combat piracy:
T-Series filed lawsuits against several major companies like YouTube (which was later settled), MySpace, Yahoo and Ibibo, and even got the founders of Guruji.com arrested. Reliance BIG Pictures began getting generic “John Doe” orders trying to force filesharing sites to prevent movie uploads, and getting some of them blocked. This is by far the biggest anti-piracy initiative till date.
The court has asked ISPs to block the sites using any of the three methods:
1. DNS Name Blocking: Which ISPs use to for looking up IP addresses corresponding to domain names. However, it's possible for filesharing sites to change their domain names..
2. IP Address Blocking Using Routers:
However, this method is possible for sites to be hosted on alternate servers, once blocked. So, this might not entirely address the issue..
3. DPI Based URL Blocking:
This mechanism involves configuring the ISP’s network management system to monitor traffic by means of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and reset or block a customer's connection to specific Uniform Resource Locators (URLs). DPI-based URL Blocking is necessary can be used to block only a portion of a website.
Now, what this means is, The information docket lists each of the 387 ISPs in India, to block all the 104 music sites, and certain legitimate sites in India, which provide legal options for consumers:
Saregama, Nokia Music, Flipkart, Cyworld, 7digital, Gaana*, In, IndiaONE, Meridhun, MyBand, Raaga, Radio One, Saavn, Dhingana, Artist Aloud and Telugu One.
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