Archives for the month December 2011
Apar GuptaNYT interviews Sachin Pilot on Internet Censorship
In what seems like an exercise to clean up the air on the governments plan to regulate online content, Mr. Sachin Pilot has given an interview to NYTanswering several direct questions posed by them. While I do not agree with …
Govt asks Bharti, Vodafone, Idea to stop 3G roaming pacts
Saptak SanyalComing down heavily on operators for violating license norms, the Telecom Ministry has asked service providers to discontinue their 3G roaming agreements and is also contemplating imposing penalty on them.
The decision comes after the unanimous view of telecom regulator …
delhi court orders 22 social networking websites to pull down content
Press reports indicate that 22 social networking websites have been asked to put down content by a District Court in Delhi. I am relying on the information reported in the Economic Times and DNA to quote the Order, since it …
UMG claims right to block videos it does not own
Last month saw frantic activity over the pre-censorship comment which was subsequently withdrawn after widespread public outcry and derision. Even though pre-censorship made an obvious impression and brought the internet censorship debate to prime time news, one of its most disturbing aspects …
Vodafone Essar Ltd vs Raju Sud
Concerned a dispute with regard to the subscriber, inter aliachallenging the authenticity of computer generated bills which contained the charges. The Court held that, “printouts taken from the computer/server by mechanical process as contemplated under Sections 65 and 65-A …
State v. Navjot Sandhu
The Hon’ble Supreme Court when examining Section 65B, held that even when an affidavit/certificate under Sec. 65B is not filed it would not foreclose the Court from examining such evidence provided it complies with the requirements of Section 63 and …
how to rely upon an email in court
As the title of the post suggests, there is some complexity attached to the process of filing an email or any electronic document in court and then relying upon it as evidence. Since the law of evidence which is contained
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the best form of flattery
Day before yesterday night I was happy to see my name in the Hindu in connection with a post on this blog. The post was on the lingering concerns with the proposed regulation of user generated content on social …
Comparing litigation strategies of Microsoft, Google, and Apple using google scholar
Someones made a nifty script called, “litig-o-meter”, and searched the published opinions on google scholar for litigations involving Microsoft, Google and Apple. Though the data which has been mined and the emperical analysis is limited only to written and …