Internet providers in the city, including the state-owned telecom company MTNL, have started blocking torrent or file-sharing websites like thepiratebay.se and bitsnoop, among others.

Its officials are clueless about the rationale behind such prohibition. While most Internet service providers claimed these websites are being blocked at the insistence of the Telecom Department (DoT), sources in the DoT claim that the move has come in the wake of an order from the Delhi High Court, but is applicable not to websites as a whole, but on the download of certain films.