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Internet major Google has said it has received four content censorship requests this month from the Indian Premier League , the administrative body of the Twenty20 cricket tournament. A total of five complaints were received in 2010 about certain websites carrying "illegal retransmission of the authorised feed, copyrighted content for which IPL is the owner", according to Google. Out of the five, four complaints were made this month while one was made in March. Interestingly, Google recently signed an agreement with IPL, wherein rights for live web coverage of matches have been given to YouTube, part of the internet major. Google on Tuesday had named India at the third place among a list of nations from which it received maximum requests for censoring information. The list, which was based on requests for removal of information made to Google between July 1 and December 31, 2009. The complaints from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), which owns IPL, have been l...

Airtel, which happens to be one of the top three Broadband players in the country, has announced an offer that might just be the thing all you IPL fanatics out there were waiting for. It is offering a full 1Mbps upgrade over its current 1Mbps bandwidth users so that they get a speed bump of a full Mb. This will allow users to watch the live telecast of the matches on YouTube with no buffering issues. Airtel, being an official sponsor of the tournament, has offered this facility until the tournament ends. The speed bump offer commenced on March 12 and will continue till April 25. While there are no additional charges for the speed increase, the user WILL be charged for data transfer. Now, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how fast you will run out of your limit with continuous YouTube live streaming. But then, if you can't watch IPL on a TV for some strange reason and this is the only option available, then you might as well go for it!