The ban on video sharing sites might not have met with a favourable response from certain quarters, what with ‘ Anonymous ’, a group of hackers breaking through Government websites to express their displeasure. But there are some like Ankit Fadia and Anurag Kashyap who feel that the ban will be good in the long run.“This is not the first time that the government’s websites have been hacked. But yes, the ‘Anonymous’ group has done it for the first time. Hopefully, after this incident, the government will begin to consider security as something important because they have never taken security seriously,” says Ankit Fadia, ethical hacker and computer security expert.Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap feels that even though some tech savvy people might find a way to wriggle out of this, most of the people will start buying movies online, if torrent sites are blocked.“Now they have stopped piracy and torrent sites. People who have been making films in the budgets of 10 lakh or less using 3G or 4G format, and passing them around on video sharing sites, will start making money. Due to piracy, they could not add revenue because people would rather watch them for free,” Kashyap says.He adds, “ Ab torrents band ho gaye, toh free access kam ho jaega — kuch log phir bhi ek rasta dhoond lenge – but woh rasta bohot kam logon ko milega, the very tech savvy. Rest of them will start paying minuscule amount of money for the movies. For instance, movie.com makes a film accessible to you for 80 bucks, from world over. You can watch short films for 10. With this, there’ll be more people downloading them and keeping them in their digital libraries. 3G and 4G will start giving revenue,” Kashyap opines.Point taken, but what needs to be done in this scenario where hackers will keep on putting pressure on the government to retract its decision. “The government’s decision is fair. It doesn’t need to negotiate or compromise with the hackers to reach an agreement. All they need to do is tighten the security of their websites, to make sure they are not easily hacked,” Fadia avers.