![VideoLAN confirms India's Ministry of Electronics and IT has removed its ban on downloading the VLC media player, in effect for over nine months (Manish Singh/TechCrunch) VideoLAN confirms India's Ministry of Electronics and IT has removed its ban on downloading the VLC media player, in effect for over nine months (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)](https://karkey.in/wp-content/uploads/http://www.techmeme.com/221114/i10.jpg)
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
VideoLAN confirms India’s Ministry of Electronics and IT has removed its ban on downloading the VLC media player, in effect for over nine months — India has lifted the download ban on VLC, more than nine months after it mysteriously blocked the official website of the popular media playback software in the South Asian market.