The title is not correct. A movie studio, Reliance Entertainment, won a case in the court where the judge ordered ban of a few sites such as Megaupload. Given that it is a court order, ISPs (all of them) had to block it.<p>In this case, it is the court which is responsible for such sweeping judgement and not a single ISP. I guess the fact that Reliance also owns an ISP resulted in a confused title.
I'm one among those unlucky Reliance subscribers who were thrown this 'website blocked' page a couple of days back. The only reason I'm still with Reliance is that they don't have any data cap on the usage and has decent customer service.<p>Though they 'thought' they blocked these sites, I was able to access them by just removing 'www' from the url (Lucky me :)). FYI, they are using Netsweeper for filtering and the admin login page for the same is open to the public ;)
Insane. Indian lower courts are crazy. If someone appeals to higher courts it will get overturned in no time. Thankfully, things are working from other ISPs, so it's a reliance only thing.
I'd call and say 'Fuck you Reliance'!! And I'd just switch my ISP , there are people waiting to give you a internet connection. Just because they have power doesnt mean they can misuse it. And I'm sure this blockade won't last long.<p>PS:Is Reliance trying to recreate Godaddy scene in India ? :P