After a brief and fumbling ban on porn, the Indian government seems to be trying ban torrents - the very idea of torrents. If you visit a torrent website, a report suggests, you might be committing a crime, one that earns a 3 lakh fine and 3 years in jail. (And you know they don't have wifi in jail). The extent of this ban extends to looking at" a torrent file, or downloading a file from a host that may have been banned in India, or even for viewing an image on a file host like Imagebam." Here are 5 more stories that may interest you:

Man Orders Phone For Sister Gets Concrete Instead. Files Complaint Against Snapdeal CEO

A budding lawyer's desire to gift his younger sister a mobile handset on the occasion of 'Rakshabandhan' was foiled by\ the online tricksters who delivered a cement bar instead of the gadget. Following a complaint from advocate Ankur Kapley, Ambazari police have registered an offence of cheating and criminal breach of trust against top officials of online shopping portal snapdeal.com and courier company xpressbees.com.

Kapley, duped of Rs 9,245, may have faced some financial loss inflicted by the frauds but it was an emotional shock too as the lawyer rushed to purchase another handset for sister from a neighbourhood mobile phone outlet. The lawyer, whose complaint was promptly registered by the city police, now plans a public interest litigation for regulating online trade.

Kapley had ordered an sophisticated mobile phone handset through snapdeal.com on August 9. His order was also confirmed through an email. On the following day, Kapley received another email from Snapdeal.com stating his handset had been despatched and the gadget shall reach him by August 16. Kapley was supposed to pay cash-on-delivery.