‘YouTube can’t violate Indian laws’

NEW DELHI: Popular video-sharing platform YouTube cannot host any content that violates Indian laws, the Delhi high court has said.

NEW DELHI: Popular video-sharing platform YouTube cannot host any content that violates Indian laws, the Delhi high court has said.

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The order came from a bench of justice S Muralidhar on Tata Sky’s plea for removal of videos from YouTube on how to crack the encryption of set top boxes.

The court said “there could be complaints regarding some material on the website of YouTube which by their very nature require it to act immediately without insisting on the complainant” to demonstrate that the complaint is within the online platform’s rules for action.

In an interim order, the high court on August 27 directed the video-sharing website to remove the content objected to by Tata Sky, a leading direct-to-home television channel service provider.

YouTube said in court on Wednesday it had complied with the order and removed the URLs of objectionable videos.

Had Tata Sky not been unclear about the kind of violation that took place, YouTube may have acted even more promptly to remove the offending content, the website said.

Since YouTube had already removed the offending URLs and promised to act immediately on such complaints, the court disposed of Tata Sky’s petition.

Tata Sky contended that under the rules the website was obliged to act promptly once it was clear that the offending videos were illegal.