Some ISP shows that banner ( This website is blocked as per the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology Act, 2000). The Indian government should invest in ways to stop evil intent, not the victim (VLC in this case).”įrançois, however, thinks the reason behind the ban could be Cicada attacks, “Govt says they are not involved in this. Jean-Paul Saman, former secretary of Videolan, claims that VLC is the victim here, “The general public does not always recognise that they are downloading a software that has been tampered with. (First appeal filed by IFF source: IFF Twitter account) The RTI filed by IFF got a single-line response from the IT ministry, “No information is available with the Ministry of Information and Technology.” To which IFF has filed the first appeal on this response. (RTI filed by IFF source: IFF Twitter account) The IFF supposed this is untrue and filed an appeal.” “The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) has made a request to your government, and they said that they are not aware of any ban. When probed about government involvement, François said they didn’t have a clue. But it got in the news only recently and that’s when most people started noticing it.” The ban has been effective since February, and a few people have notified us.
The truth is neither the government nor the people at Videolan are aware of what’s happened to VLC.įrançois Cartegnie, the main developer at Videolan, told Analytics India Magazine, “We do not have contacts with the government and did not get any government notice. However, some claim that the government has nothing to do with the ban. Some suggest it may be because Chinese hackers use it as a medium to hack into computers in India. For the past few days, the VLC media player ban has been the talk of the town.
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