Back in March of this yr, the Indian authorities banned the very fashionable VLC Media Player with out specifying any cause. The ban that has been imposed isn’t a correct ban, however relatively a smooth ban, which means that whereas the VLC participant itself works wonderful for Indian customers with none points, the primary web site of VLC has been banned in India. 

Currently, if any Indian web customers attempt to entry the VideoLAN web site, they get the next message: “Your requested URL has been blocked as per the instructions obtained from the Department of Telecommunications Government of India.”

VideoLAN, VLC’s mum or dad firm says that they weren’t even given a possibility to say something in opposition to the ban. Now, they’ve additionally despatched a authorized discover to the Indian Government. Furthermore, they’re additionally asking the federal government to offer them with a cause for the block in order that they will have a possibility to defend themselves.

Why was VLC Media Player banned in India?

As of now, the Government of India has not but launched any official assertion relating to the ban of VLC Media Player in India. VideoLan claims that the platform was banned 6 months in the past within the month of February 2022. They declare to have even approached the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to know the explanations behind the ban, nevertheless, they didn’t obtain any response. 

This may be very stunning as earlier, each time such selections had been taken, an official assertion was launched from the federal government. Something that’s much more stunning is that the VLC Media Player app remains to be out there on the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. It needs to be famous that the every other apps which have been banned by the federal government in India had been faraway from each these shops virtually immediately.

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