You May Face A 3-Year Jail Term For Just Looking At Torrent Websites In India.

Remember the time you tried to ban porn websites earlier and how it outraged most of us? Well, you’re trying to do the same thing by banning my torrent websites. In fact, you want to ban the very idea of torrents.

You see, If you visit a torrent website you are committing a crime. According to the Indian Government, if you even attempt to look at a torrent website, you can earn yourself a 3 lakh fine and land yourself in Jail for up to 3 years. Their ban is so ridiculous that not only downloading a torrent file is banned, but even viewing an image hosting website like Imagebam is a crime. C’mon Government dudes, who the hell is making these lists and why the fuck is it so poorly compiled?

If you visit a torrent website in the near future you will get a warning like this:

"This URL has been blocked under the instructions of the Competent Government Authority or in compliance with the orders of a Court of competent jurisdiction. Viewing, downloading, exhibiting or duplicating an illicit copy of the contents under this URL is punishable as an offence under the laws of India, including but not limited to under Sections 63, 63-A, 65 and 65-A of the Copyright Act, 1957 which prescribe imprisonment for 3 years and also fine of upto Rs. 3,00,000/-. Any person aggrieved by any such blocking of this URL may contact at urlblock@tatacommunications.com who will, within 48 hours, provide you the details of relevant proceedings under which you can approach the relevant High Court or Authority for redressal of your grievance"

Most of these ‘compiled’ URLs are blocked via your DNS. They filter these websites via the DNS filter and block them via a list that is maintained by your internet service provider. You can easily bypass this by using Google’s very own DNS service. However, you can still be traced by the government.  Alternatives include using VPN software to access torrent websites that is much safer in our opinion.

Please be safe when you access Torrents in the next few days, you might just end up in jail and they don’t have WI-FI over there.