IT Ministry orders VPN providers, crypto players to store user data for five years
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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.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..
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).
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.
Have a third party regulator. There are many retired bureaucrats owing allegiance to the incumbent to do this job.
Bingo!
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
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. :/
they don't detect VPN, however they can know the IP address of the datacenter the VPN is hosted from and flag those address.
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.
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.
Express VPN and surfshark shuts down its Indian servers.
www.news18.com
After ExpressVPN, Surfshark Leaves India Before New VPN Rules Kick In - News18
Surfshark’s physical servers in India will be shut down before the new law comes into power. Until then, users will be able to connect to servers in India as usual. After the new regulations come into effect, Surfshark, like ExpressVPN, will introduce virtual Indian servers – which will be...
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.
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.