In what can only be the most ridiculous proposed law of 2007 the India Government is proposing a ban on all internet and mobile video. According to the Economic Times, the proposed law is in response to the increase in cyber crime and piracy. So in typical India fashion the government wants to shut down all videos on the web. Notwithstanding that impossibility, how does the government plan to enforce the ban?
From the Economic Times, “we propose to add sections in the revised IT Act in order to tackle the problem. However, it has not been finalised whether mobile and social networking sites should be allowed to provide the service with some safeguards or there should be a blanket ban,” a source said. They can add all of the sections they want but how do they plan to enforce the law as it pertains to videos produced outside of India yet shown in India?
The Indian Government continues to live in pre-1990 socialist India where "big brother" knows best. When are they going to wake up and realize they can no longer control what the average citizen reads and watches? There are new technologies on the horizon that will address piracy and cyber crime (although I don't understand what they mean by cyber crime as it is so vast a topic) and they should wait for those technologies to emerge instead of enacting such a ludicrous law.
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