With Internet Archive ban, Bollywood's fight against Piracy threatens online freedom

Suits for copyright infringement have been filed by Prakash Jha Films and Red Chillies Entertainment

In yet another instance of over-broad and disproportionate online censorship, the Madras high court has ordered 2,650 entire websites to be blocked nation-wide, as an interim measure against the infringement of copyright of certain films. On July 21 and August 2, the Madras high court ordered an interim injunction against several Internet Service Providers (ISPs), in a case of copyright infringement, directing the ISPs to disable access to websites upon the plaintiff’s request, including, perplexingly, the Internet Archive, an online library of public domain works, which also hosts an archive of more than 20 years of the World Wide Web.

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