I am writing this since this list is read by many folks outside India who might think "Internet ban" at varying levels and put to some facts for people to make some more sense on the banning. Its mostly on 2-3 ISPs in India, so calling "Internet ban" is slightly exaggerating IMHO. (I owe that much to my ISP who did not block any of the said websites but get painted with same brush in the "Indian ISP bashing" game). People are pointing wrong reasons (copyright bans) while the actual issue is about incompetence, anti-net-neutrality and self censorship principles followed by select ISP's.(I need not name them, its well known :)) Anyone who went through the anonymous list[1] will understand its got very little to do with copyright to block "Satish Seth" search results. The easy option is to unsubscribe from the ISP's instead of blaming it on copyright (shooting the wrong thief, at least this case).
In future, would appreciate if you tag mail such as these with [OT] since they are not directly related to list but might be of interest.
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Regards
Srikanth.L