After watching this news, I checked to find that the website is opening anymore. This has been my only music player (not counting WMP) for more than 15 years 
VLC player banned in India
Its still in Linux distro repos. But yeah the website is blocked.
IIRC the justification was that some Chinese hackers were using some exploit in it.
IIRC the justification was that some Chinese hackers were using some exploit in it.
Waiting for them to ban GitHub and Kubernetes too as huawei contributed in them.
Can we use VLC using a VPN?After watching this news, I checked to find that the website is opening anymore. This has been my only music player (not counting WMP) for more than 15 years
You don't have to since it's now unbanned.