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Ven as we continue to increase our reliance on the Internet and put more parts of our lives online, small incidents serve to illustrate how the delicate balance between technology, governance, and the rights of the end user really is. The things we take for granted can be swept away by any time, not just because of a simple technical failure, but because of the whims of those in power. One evening in late July, a number of Indian Web users discovered that they’d been locked out of file sharing sites such as Rapidshare and Megaupload. A simple error message informed them that their ISPs had been forced by the Department of Telecom to block these sites.

Speculation was rampant across Twitter and various websites, till it was discovered that a Delhi High Court passed an order allowing a film distributor to prevent piracy of an unreleased movie, which the said company had used to scare ISPs into blocking these sites. However, no one managed to produce the actual court order, or any part of it specifically authorizing such action. Users began reporting that different ISPs were blocking different sets sites, and some weren’t blocking any at all. There was no public notice, no timeframe, and in fact no sense behind these blocks—it seemed that the ISPs were merely following directions, scared they’d be sued for non compliance, when in fact they have no way to specifically prevent individual files from being pirated and should have no responsibility for doing so either. And so, a random selection of perfectly legitimate services was blocked.

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Thousands of people were denied service for undoubtedly valid purposes, while hundreds of other online storage sites were unaffected. There was also no effect on P2P networks, Torrent traffic, or any of the much more likely means of piracy that anyone would be likely to use.

Proxy sites were unaffected, and many reported simple URL manipulations worked—evidence of the ISPs’ ineptitude or hurry. Service was restored within days, again with no clear reason indicated. We might all laugh off the incident as a minor inconvenience, but it’s a dangerous precedent. Anyone with a vested interest—whether corporate, moral or political—could do it properly next time, ensuring that more services are blocked, more tightly, and indefinitely. And what if our courts decide that ISPs are in fact responsible for preventing piracy? Or that filters against pornography should be in place to “protect Indian culture from Western influence”?

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They wouldn’t be able to live up to terms like those without sweeping blocks on all kinds of services and functions. It’s happened before and continues to happen around the world: there have been blackouts due to political unrest in Africa and Europe, debates about traffic shaping and net neutrality in the USA, a proposed national pornography filter in Australia, pressure against Wikileaks in the name of preserving various nations’ security, the MPAA and RIAAs’ barrages of multi-million-dollar lawsuits, and of course pretty much anything the powers that be in China disapprove of. In India, all it took was a court siding with a corporate interest. It's a slippery slope, and without clear government directions as to what courts, corporations and ISPs are and aren't allowed to do, we'll be at the mercy of their whims.