On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Suhit Kelkar <[email protected]> wrote: > CAVEAT: i am not a lawyer, and this isn't legal advice. it is only > meant to provoke further investigation. > > > Hi, > > there's this section 43 of the Indian IT Act, 2000, which says in > subsection b, that > > [any person who, *without the owner's permission*] > ==quote== > (b) downloads, copies or extracts any data, computer data base or information > from such computer, computer system or computer network including information > or > data held or stored in any removable storage medium; > ==end quote== > [could stand to be fined to the tune of up to a crore rupees]. > > this is sufficiently vague for the authorities to screw people who > have not been permitted by sify to work with their cryptography. > > of course, the law doesn't apply if your name is raju ;) > > best > > suhit kelkar. > -- > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
I think this is a law for is for things which are copyright protected or basically for softwares which are meant to be sold. But the dialer falls into a category that says its necessary for the basic usage of the service & needs to be used by the end person. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
