IT Ministry orders VPN providers, crypto players to store user data for five years

Kaleen Bhaiya said:
Would hurt the NRI fanbase..;)
Besides, it won't take long for issuing a dikkat to VPN providers to not allow any services, to and from India.
Let's wait and watch the fun..
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They can't do that because they don't have the jurisdiction required to amend laws outside the country. They impose laws on or cannot force non-Indian companies who are not even operating in India.
All they can do is compile a list of Servers and IP addresses of VPN providers and block the connections by DNS protocols or at ISP level (the kind of blocks they do for torrent and porn sites).
 
blr_p said:
In the recent case of farm laws all it took was street agitation to get the govt to back off.
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Apologies for OT but I beg to differ. The decision to roll back laws were taken long back before. It's anybody's guess that the govt were testing the waters to push farmers into submission. If there were no elections, this conundrum would have continued till date.
 
ibose said:
They cannot. Even something like this can be bypassed.
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Bingo!
Kaleen Bhaiya said:
Apologies for OT but I beg to differ. The decision to roll back laws were taken long back before. It's anybody's guess that the govt were testing the waters to push farmers into submission. If there were no elections, this conundrum would have continued till date.
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SC staying them a couple of months after they passed pretty much killed them.

Who asked SC to do that and on what basis ? nothing unconsitutional in them. Never even got challenged.
 
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Surfshark had mentioned they were talking to some lawyers to contest this. Lets see if they go through with it.

Also, Other vpn companies like PIA(and iirc nord) have pulled out already. PIA is also using a shell ASN to make it look like you are accessing internet from india when the node is actually present in SG
 
Is there any way to "mask" or hide the use of VPN? I wanted to use VPN to watch some live videos not available (no license) in India but the streaming sites detect my VPN and threw up an error which said something like "VPN not authorised on this website." They detected my VPN. :/
 
iPwnz said:
Is there any way to "mask" or hide the use of VPN? I wanted to use VPN to watch some live videos not available (no license) in India but the streaming sites detect my VPN and threw up an error which said something like "VPN not authorised on this website." They detected my VPN. :/
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they don't detect VPN, however they can know the IP address of the datacenter the VPN is hosted from and flag those address.
 
iPwnz said:
Is there any way to "mask" or hide the use of VPN? I wanted to use VPN to watch some live videos not available (no license) in India but the streaming sites detect my VPN and threw up an error which said something like "VPN not authorised on this website." They detected my VPN. :/
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Which VPN provider are you using? Torguard has a different tier of exit nodes which will allow streaming. PIA and probably others have this feature as well.
Even with this, your mileage may vary. Streaming service providers are quick to ban VPN exits masquerading as Residential customer and VPN companies keep spinning up more nodes.
 
Tunnelbear, Nord and few others. Just to see which worked and none of them did sadly lol.
How's Torguard? PC or Mobile or both?
 
iPwnz said:
Tunnelbear, Nord and few others. Just to see which worked and none of them did sadly lol.
How's Torguard? PC or Mobile or both?
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It is impossible to say that one operator will work with some streaming service for perpetuity. The services keep blacklisting IP blocks used by the servers, so it depends how aggressive the service is.

Also, some apps detect the tunneling on the system itself whereas the same service works fine if VPN is enabled on the router.
 
I'm using super cheap ($12 per year) FastVPN by namecheap for work. It's not the best VPN out there but still nobody blocked me yet.
 
t3chg33k said:
It is impossible to say that one operator will work with some streaming service for perpetuity. The services keep blacklisting IP blocks used by the servers, so it depends how aggressive the service is.

Also, some apps detect the tunneling on the system itself whereas the same service works fine if VPN is enabled on the router.
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No perpetuity. Just want to watch some interesting sporting events in a better quality. And Jio/Sony LIV are utter shit!
Sony LIV ruined my Olympics watching experience. Not an exaggeration. Tv channels provided better quality and I don't have a TV.
Anyway that's all.
 
iPwnz said:
Try Peacock tv and see if it works.
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Sorry, I get Puss.

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