The recent Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) legislation may have been rejected in US but India it has become a success.
In a court order issued by Kolkata court to 387 Internet providers, they will have to block 104 websites because of a suit that was filed by Indian Music Industry (IMI) against 104. The suit was filed against the websites for hosting material illegally. According to the judges, blocking these websites is the best way to handle the situation and carry on with the case.
Every single website hosting industry’s music illegally was ordered to be blocked by the court. IMI provided list of 400 top most offending websites that were supposed to be blocked but court decided to block 104 for now.
According to arstechnica.com, the court has provided court with three options regarding how the sites should be blocked, One is blocking by IP address (“57.432.5.22”), second is blocking by DNS name (“hackread.com”), or the third option is URL blocking by deep packet inspection (“hackread.com/bollywood“).
Blocking websites on the internet is not a piece of cake, as the first website that was ordered to be banned long ago was songs.pk but after several tries the ISPs couldn’t block the site because songs.pk was able to found other direct access link for the users in India.
Indian SOPA is also raining over Google and Facebook, where court is pressurizing both companies to delete offensive material and images against the Hindu Gods.
Court decision was strongly hailed by the international music trade group (IFPI), but at the same time they think that there is much more that has to be done in this stance. According to chief executive of IFPI Mr. Frances Moore “The court ruled that blocking is a proportionate and effective way to tackle website piracy. The Indian government should build on this progress by moving forward legislation to effectively tackle all forms of digital piracy to enable the country’s digital music market to reach its full potential.”
List of 104 websites that are to be blocked by ISPs.
1. songs.pk
2. absongs.com
3. apniisp.com
4. apunkabollywood.com
5. bollyextreme.com
6. bollymaza.com
7. bollywood-hits.com
8. bollywoodmp4.com
9. bollywoodstop.com
10. coolgoose.com
11. dacoolsite.com
12. desibajao.net/desihits.net
13. desifunda.net
14. desisong.com
15. dhakdhakradio.com
16. downloadming.com
17. freeindisongs.com
18. funmaza.com
19. gogrumogru.com/songs.ind.in
20. karachimag.com
21. koolfree.com
22. lovepaki.com
23. mastmag.com
24. mobraja.com
25. mp3fundoo.com
26. mp3paradice.com
27. musicduniya.com
28. musiqbuzz.com
29. muskurahat.com
30. netmasty.com
31. pakfellows.com
32. paktimes.com
33. playlist.pk
34. punjabcentral.com
35. radioreloaded.com
36. radiorhythmz.fm
37. radiorocking.com
38. rkmania.com
39. songbox.pk
40. songsinn.com
41. songsnonstop.com
42. songsrack.com
43. songsrip.com
44. songzila.com
45. topupmp3.com
46. town67.com
47. 100india.com
48. musicindiaonline.com
49. aflatune.com
50. bharatlover.com
51. cckerala.com
52. centralmusiq.com
53. chimatamusic.com
54. desimusic.com
55. desishock.net
56. dhool.com
57. dishant.com
58. filmicafe.com
59. filmimusic.com
60. fun1001.com
61. hindimirchi.com
62. sunomusic.com
63. telugufm.com
64. yolike.com
65. andhravilas.com
66. smashits.com
67. songdad.com
68. songslover.net
69. ragalahari.com
70. rameshmusic.com
71. freeplaymp3songdownload.com
72. freefundoo.com
73. desijammers.com
74. thenisai.com
75. mp3feelings.com
76. mazafm.com/hindimirchi.com
77. kjyesudas.com
78. jaanfm.com
79. gr8click.com
80. funscrape.com
81. chirkutonorkut.com
82. tamilmaalai.com
83. tamilkey.info
84. vmusiq.com
85. sevanthi.com
86. tamilwire.com
87. a2ztamilsongs.com
88. mymaza.com
89. germantamilan.com
90. 123music.mobi
91. desiden.mobi
92. longmp3.mobi
93. krazywap.com
94. mobile-zon.com
95. mymp3.mobi
96. samwep.com
97. spicyfm.com
98. wapindia.net
99. wapmaza.mobi
100. waprocks.in
101. mobidreamz.com
102. waptamil.net
103. zinkwap.com
104. 22beats.com
