The verdict is significant due to its departure from the usual practice of blocking only URLs and not the entire website. The Delhi high court has asked the government to block access to entire website of 73 “rogue sites” for illegally streaming videos of cricket matches saying that banning of specific uniform resource locators (URLs) was not always an adequate measure to stop piracy. Subsequently, a single bench of the HC had ordered blocking the entire 73 websites. Accepting the plea, the HC had in March this year said that only the specified URLs of the pirated content would be blocked. Later, the Department of Electronics and Information technology (DEIT) had to the HC that blocking the entire websites would violate freedom of trade on the Internet.

Source: Hindustan Times August 02, 2016 19:07 UTC