Indian blogosphere: The fight against ‘Yahoo! India plagiarism’ is not over!

admin — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:37:00 +0000

March 5 will be remembered as a big day in the Indian blogosphere as a group of desi bloggers have brought down the big Yahoo! India. The issue started from the day at least 5 recipes from a food blogger Suryagayatri’s Kariveppila blog were taken and slightly modified to be placed on Yahoo’s Malayalam Portal without any go-ahead or acknowledgement. The news of the plagiarism crowded the entire Indian blogosphere within no time. After that, a mighty campaign called a ‘Remove Plagiarism’ was started by the desi bloggers and turned into an online protest on March 5. Yahoo! surrendered in haste and sent an apology to Surya Gayathri. Note: Surya Gayathri hasn’t received a personal apology from Yahoo!. Visit the bloggers’ discussion board at Dining Hall to sport their protest. Well, A Yahoo! spokeswoman claimed the imitation of the content to be unintentional and blamed the incident on Webdunia.com (India) Pvt. Ltd., the content provider to Yahoo. But, the triumph didn’t come as easy as Yahoo! after getting a hint of the incident had silently deleted the felonious content without acknowledging the plagiarism. This is surely a great win for Indian bloggers and those who have fallen prey to plagiarism. Via: Desicritics Image: Kariveppila

Proxy sites helping Indian bloggers access banned blogs

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:32:00 +0000

The ban imposed by the government of India doesn’t seem to be achieving its objectives as internet users are shifting towards proxy sites to access the banned sites. I have already mentioned of such proxy sites via which the users can have access to the banned sites. The Internet Service Providers Association of India has also accepted that the sites could be accessed despite all the ISPs blocking it at their end. In the mean time, Indian blogging community has shown its rage against the ban on blogspot since Indian ISPs have blocked the whole site despite the fact that government has asked to block certain pages only. ISPs put their point forth by saying that it’s not possible for them to block specific blogs. That is the reason they have to close the entire site. Mr Kiran Karnik, President, Nasscom cited that the ban on blogs was ‘neither desirable nor feasible.’ The news in the air is that more web sites will be added to the list of banned sites very soon. Anyway, that is not going to create any problems for the internet users, thanks to the proxy sites. Via: sgknox

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Indian blogosphere: The fight against ‘Yahoo! India plagiarism’ is not over!

Proxy sites helping Indian bloggers access banned blogs