VLC Media Player banned in India? Know all more about VLC
VLC media player is most popular media player VLC is a free and open source across all platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files, and various streaming videos.
One of the India’s most popular media players across multiple platforms, android, windows, ios VLC Media Player is reportedly being banned in india. The VLC Media Player website no longer works in India and users cannot download the program’s .exe file (windows executable file) software for installation anymore.
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Meanwhile, if you already have VLC Media player installed on your device, phone, ios or PC, you should still be able to run the program no issues. On a Windows laptop/desktop, even if you have the offline executable setup file, you will be able to install the software and use it. also you can download the software other sites.
Ban the VLC media player in india
Most Popular Media Player Software and Streaming Media Server VLC media player is no longer working in India. According to a report by MediaNama, VLC Media Player has been blocked in India. block by the govt.
Some reports suggest that the VLC media player has been banned in the country as the platform was being used by the Chinese hacking group Cicada for cyber attacks. security reasons banned, A few months ago, security experts discovered that Cicada was part of a long-running cyberattack campaign that was using the VLC media player for a malware loader. The website has been blocked as per the order of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology under the IT Act, 2000. for safety reasons blocked this website in india.
Many more apps and website blocked in for security reasons, Let us tell you that in 2020- 2022, the Indian government blocked hundreds of Chinese apps, including PUBG Mobile, Tiktok, Camscanner, and more. Now the government has also blocked PUBG Mobile Indian version BGMI in India and removed it from Google Play store, windows app store and Apple App store. The reason behind blocking these apps is that the government feared that these platforms were sending user data to China. It should be noted that VLC Media Player is not supported by a Chinese company. It has been developed by Paris-based firm VideoLAN, VLC is easy to use for all media files.