The Supreme Court has advised the Indian government to work with various ministries to come up with a solution to take down pornographic content from the web. The government had told the apex court that it was difficult to block international porn websites in India.

According to a Times of India report, most of the sites blocked are web forums where users share images and links to download porn content. Some of these sites are also used to host and share images and files. The report further says the blocked sites are hosted outside India and supposedly operate under the US' 18 USC 2257 law. The petition had pointed out the lack of adequate Internet laws has led to more people accessing such obscene videos. According to him, over 20 crore such videos or clippings are available in the market and are being downloaded through web or accessed via video CDs.

Earlier, the Indian government had ordered the Internet Service Providers to take down as many as 39 websites for hosting obscene content.