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India’s Expanding Site Blocking Orders Hit Legal Wall at Delhi High Court
https://torrentfreak.com/indias-expanding-site-blocking-orders-hit-legal-wall-at-delhi-high-court/
### The Hydra Gets a New Head
If you’ve ever tried to track down a pirate site, you know the drill: you block one domain, and two more pop up like a digital hydra. For years, Indian courts have been using “dynamic injunctions” to stay ahead of the game, essentially allowing officials to add new mirror sites to a blocking list without needing a new court date every single time. It was efficient, it was effective, and—according to a recent Delhi High Court ruling—it might actually be illegal.
In a trademark dispute involving the Mahindra conglomerate, the court hit the brakes on this “future-proofing” trend. While rightsholders wanted the power to add new infringing domains to an existing order, Justice Tushar Rao Gedela said, not so fast.
The logic? Once a judge signs off on a final ruling and closes a case, their authority ends. You can’t just have a court official playing “whack-a-mole” with new websites once the legal proceedings are officially over.
Why this matters:
- More paperwork, more money: Studios and rightsholders can no longer rely on automatic expansions; they’ll likely need to file fresh litigation for every new wave of clones.
- Legal inconsistency: Different judges in the same court might rule differently, creating a massive headache for lawyers.
- A call to action: The judge didn’t just say “no”—he explicitly called on the Indian Parliament to rewrite the rules to handle the realities of the modern internet.
For now, the “dynamic” era is on ice, leaving the heavy lifting to the legislature.