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Is Airtel curbing speed of Filesonic, Fileserve, Oron... and other file sharing sites?

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 12:43 PM PST

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Originally Posted by 133t

chromaniac has covered all the points that you have raised, i would like to just point out , personal consumption is very different from street piracy, that is the one which hurts , downloading for personal use it perfectly legit in Netherlands, Spain, Canada, and India as per the standing law. in india cause thier is no written law which handles digital downloads yet so the copyright act of 58 applies.

Regarding the legal position on downloading of illegal content, I believe this is dealt with by the “Information Technology Act 2000” and not by the copy right act.

If you see Section 43 of the IT Act (as amended by the “IT Amendment act 2008”) says,

“If any person without permission of the owner..downloads, copies.. any data.. or information.. he shall be liable to pay damages by way of compensation to the person so affected”

So it is perfectly illegal for anyone to download copy righted material. However the legal loop hole here could be that, the owner should be able to establish that they suffered some damages due to the downloading of this material. And considering the pace and efficiency with which our courts operate, this could lead to decades of legal wrangling before some meaningful thing comes out.

Disclaimer : Iam not a lawyer nor an expert on this act. This is what I could gather from the material available, and would like to hear others views on the same.

Perfect Sense

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 12:42 PM PST

URGENT!! need help regarding new mtnl wifi connection

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 12:17 PM PST

You can connect your laptop via wifi using both methods. mtnl provides a modem router combo, as well as a standalone adsl modem (cheaper). I use a standalone adsl modem (beetel 110tc1) and a wifi router. how big is your place ?

Reliance LTE 4G Wireless Broadband could be launched announced anytime now

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 12:11 PM PST

Looks like a press release.

RIL's 4G broadband to offer exclusive content & spectacular speed at dirt-cheap rates — economictimes.indiatimes.com — Readability

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RIL's 4G broadband to offer exclusive content & spectacular speed at dirt-cheap rates

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"It will be a repeat of the (first) big bang," says independent consultant BK Syngal, who was the architect of Mukesh's previous entry into telecom, and headed that business from 1999 to 2002.

This is sort of disturbing.

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And lastly, there's the RIL philosophy of disruptive pricing. According to RIL executives aware of the development, the company is looking to bundle data services at about 10 per GB, which is one-tenth of current 3G prices. It is, they say, also planning to bundle this with entry-level tablets powered by Google's Android operating system that would cost 3,000-8,000. That the demand for low-cost tablets is robust is evident from the 1.4 million bookings that Aakash, the 2,500 tablet made by UK-based Datawind and subsidised by the government of India, received in 14 days after it was put up for sale online. The RIL official quoted in the first instance says the company is also looking to offer online services in "security, health and education". So, for example, by paying, say, 30 a month, a customer can access doctors online 24X7. He said the company was also talking to the government to link up with the database of unique IDs being created for every Indian, called Aadhaar.

Nandan Nilekani, the chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), which is implementing Aadhaar, confirmed this. "We have had preliminary discussions (with RIL) on how Aadhaar and the platform can be used to offer applications," he said. "You may not have a cardiologist for every village, but a 100 of them could be available to millions through this hub-and-spoke model on the cloud (computing)." RIL is targeting these millions. Targeting millions is something RIL never did late in the last century, when its first wave of growth came as a producer of industrial goods - petrochemicals, oil refining and oil exploration.