Video Sharing Websites Blocked After HC Order

• Star Ban. Actor and co-owner of the Kolkata Knight Riders Shah Rukh Khan may be banned from entering Wankhede stadium after getting into a fight with officials from the Mumbai Cricket Association on Wednesday night. The MCA has filed a police complaint against the Bollywood actor for abusing officials in an inebriated state. Khan, however, has denied the allegations, and has demanded an apology for the behaviour of security staff whom he says shoved around his daughter and other kids. [The Times of India]

• Internet Block. The government has asked all major Internet Service Providers to block video sharing websites like Vimeo, Dailymotion, Pirate Bay and Torrentz, after a “John Doe” injunction from the Madras High Court filed by a film company seeking protection against pirated copies of the Tamil film 3. However, the Department of Electronics and Information Technology, which oversees blocking of websites, said they had not issued “any directive to any ISP to block these websites based on the Madras High Court order”. [The Times of India]

• Hack Attack. Hacker group Anonymous brought down the websites of the Supreme Court and the Congress party on Tuesday, posting on their Twitter account the following message: “Namaste #India, your time has come to trash the current government and install a new one. Good luck”. The hacking was thought to be in response to the blocking of file-sharing websites like Pirate Bay and Vimeo. The hackers have also allegedly threatened to take down the website of the Department of Telecom. [India Today]