Among India’s most preferred media gamers throughout several systems, VLC Media Gamer is supposedly being outlawed in the nation. The VLC Media Gamer site no more operates in India as well as individuals can not download and install the program’s exe documents (home windows executable documents) for setup any longer.
A tweet by Gagandeep Sapra reveals that when individuals attempt to open up the VLC Media Gamer site in India, they are rather welcomed by a ” The site has actually been obstructed according to order of Ministry of Electronic devices as well as Infotech under IT Act, 2000″ message.
Any person understand why @NICMeity has outlawed VLC Downloads in India? @internetfreedom pic.twitter.com/lQubbyK0Yi
— Gagandeep Sapra (@TheBigGeek) August 12, 2022
Surprisingly, VLC Media Gamer (the Android application) is still readily available on the Google Play Shop. Customers with an Android phone can see the Google Play Shop as well as set up the application in the meantime. There is still no word on whether the mobile variation of the preferred program will certainly additionally be influenced by the restriction.
At The Same Time, if you currently have VLC Media gamer mounted on your tool, phone or computer, you must still have the ability to run the program no concerns. On a Windows laptop/desktop, also if you have the offline executable configuration documents, you will certainly have the ability to set up the device as well as utilize it.
Why is VLC Media Gamer being outlawed?
According to an earlier record by MediaNama, VLC Media Gamer had actually been outlawed in India regarding the last 5 months. Nonetheless, a lot of individuals of the preferred program on computer as well as Android, that likely currently had actually the gamer mounted ignored the website being removed.
Neither VLC Media Gamer neither the federal government has actually exposed why the media gamer was removed. Nonetheless, several records recommend the action was taken after the program was made use of by China-backed hacking team Cicada for cyber assaults. Records additionally included that VLC Media Gamer was made use of by Cicada to release harmful code on target makers, as component of a bigger cyber assault project.