India is likely to roll back a ban on accessing the website of VideoLAN, an open-source community which developed the popular VLC Media Player, according to sources in the government. The rethink comes after technology experts and civil society pushed back, questioning the rationale behind the ban. The website of the developers of the media player, which enjoyed its heyday in the early 2000s, has been offline throughout the country since
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