India lifts obtain ban on VLC • TechCrunch

India has lifted the obtain ban on VLC media participant, greater than a month after the favored software program’s developer filed a authorized discover in search of rationalization from the nation’s IT and Telecom ministries.

The Ministry of Electronics and IT has eliminated its ban on the web site of VLC media participant, New Delhi-based advocacy group Web Freedom Basis, which supplied authorized assist to VideoLAN, stated on Monday. VideoLAN confirmed the order.

Indian telecom operators started blocking VideoLAN’s official web site, the place it lists hyperlinks to downloading VLC, in February of this yr, VideoLAN president and lead developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf instructed TechCrunch in an earlier interview. India is likely one of the largest markets for VLC.

The overwhelming majority of individuals depend on VLC’s official web site to obtain the favored software.

“Most main ISPs [internet service providers] are banning the location, with various methods,” Kempf stated of the blocking in India. In mild of the blocking, the location instantly noticed a drop of 80% in site visitors from the South Asian market, he instructed TechCrunch.

Final month, VideoLAN and Web Freedom Basis used authorized means to get solutions and redressal surrounding the ban. India’s IT ministry by no means made public the order of the ban, but all telecom operators within the nation complied with it. In its authorized discover final month, VideoLAN sought a duplicate of the blocking order.