Now, 3-year jail for viewing torrent site, blocked URL in India

August 21, 2016 21:33

The Indian government, with the help of internet service providers, and presumably under directives of court, has banned thousands of websites and URLs in the last five odd years.

But until now if you somehow visited these "blocked URLs" all was fine.

However, now if you try to visit such URLs and view the information, you may get three-year jail sentence as well as invite a fine of Rs 3 lakh.

This is just for viewing a torrent file, or downloading a file from a host that may have been banned in India, or even for viewing an image on a file host like Imagebam.

You don't have to download a torrent file, and then the actual videos or other files, which might have copyright.

Just accessing information under a blocked URL will land you in jail and leave your bank account poorer by Rs 3 lakh.

Read more HERE

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