India unblocks The Pirate Bay and other sharing

Web users in India are once again able to access video and file-sharing sites, including The Pirate Bay.

The countrys Madras High Court has changed its earlier censorship order which centred on the issue of internet copyright.

The original ruling made Indian internet service providers (ISPs) block access to entire sites to prevent a single film from being shared online.

The new order was issued following an appeal filed by a consortium of ISPs.

It states that only specific web addresses - URLs - carrying the pirated content should be blocked, but not the entire website.

The order of interim injunction dated 25/04/2012 is hereby clarified that the interim injunction is granted only in respect of a particular URL where the infringing movie is kept and not in respect of the entire website, reads the updated decision.

Further, the applicant is directed to inform about the particulars of URL where the interim movie is kept within 48 hours.

Hacking attacks

In late March, Chennai-based Copyrightlabs, an Indian anti-piracy firm, won a court order that made Indian ISPs and phone firms stop their customers reaching websites that were illegally sharing copies of certain Bollywood films.

The - similar to a John Doe order in the United States and designed to protect the copyright of music, films and other content - allowed copyright holders to request a website be taken down to prevent users from downloading content illegally.

The ruling led to a series of cyber-attacks by the hacker group Anonymous, which targeted a number of Indian websites, including those for government departments and Indias Supreme Court.

Anonymous said the attacks were carried out in retaliation against blocks imposed on video and file-sharing sites.

The internet hacking group then staged numerous protests against internet censorship in India.

replica Ebel Watch,Panerai Luminor Base Replica,Replica Watches.

I was shot for defying Kagame, says Nyamwasa

Johannesburg - Rwanda's former army chief told a South African court on Thursday that he was shot two years ago for defying President Paul Kagame, as he testified in the trial of six men accused of attempting to kill him."The reasons why I would think anyone would want me dead is that I have over the years defied the leadership, in particular President Kagame, on things that needed change," Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa told a Johannesburg court.Three Rwandans and three Tanzanians are accused of attempting to murder Nyamwasa in Johannesburg, where he was shot in the stomach outside his home on 19 June 2010, four months after receiving political asylum in South Africa.The former army chief said he believed that the assassination was ordered because of his claims that Kagame had ordered a former president's aeroplane shot down, thereby sparking the genocide in 1994."There are facts in my mind that the president of Rwanda ordered the killing of former president of Rwanda [Juvenal] Habyarimana," Nyamwasa said.Genocide But Magistrate Stanley Mkhari refused to admit Nyamwasa's comments as evidence in the case, branding them as speculation.Rwandan opposition parties have previously accused Kagame of ordering the shooting, a claim repeated in October by his former chief of staff Theogene Rudasingwa.The crash of Habyarimana's plane, in which Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira was also killed, triggered the genocide in which an estimated 800 000 people, mainly ethnic Tutsis, were killed.Nyamwasa himself has also been accused of ordering the shooting of the plane, a charge he has denied.The assassination trial has strained relations between South Africa and Rwanda, which wants Nyamwasa repatriated to serve a 24-year prison sentence after a military court last year tried him in absentia on charges of desertion, defamation and threatening state security.He also faces terrorism charges for allegedly masterminding grenade attacks in the Rwandan capital in the run-up to 2010 presidential elections.

Roger Dubuis Watch,Baume & Mercier Hampton Spirit Replica,Wholesale Jewelry.