Producers of TV shows & web series said they have started preparing for plan B and are ready for any uncertainty amid the rising cases

Three-in-five complain about the difficulty of finding content on streaming platforms according to an Accenture report that says aggregated services looking more like cable TV may be the future

HBO ended the year with 73.8 million subscribers to its streaming service and namesake cable network, up from 69.4million in September. These gains, together with the addition of nearly $ 900,0000 paying monthly phone subscribes, sent share up 3% to $26.46 in midday trading.

“Vodafone Idea deposited Rs 818 crore on December 31 as LF & SUC based on self assessment by the company," a senior government official told ET. Another official said with this payment, their statutory dues with the DoT stands clear as of now.

Cinema chains that have suffered covid-induced losses for several months and continue to witness curbs and shutdowns in several parts of the country, are now being accused of ruining chances of small-scale films in theatres by hiking ticket prices.

Disney clearly is counting all of its labels — Disney, 20th Century Studios and Searchlight, and proclaiming itself the winner with $1.17 billion in the U.S./Canada (+180% over 2020) and $2.9 billion global.

Copyright law exists so that creators of all kinds can enjoy the fruits of their labor. But what if a piece of software, that appears to breach the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA to enable cheating in Genshin Impact, gets cracked by a third party and distributed online for free? Apparently, the logical first step by the creators is to claim breaches of the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions.

The piracy liability trial between several major record labels and Internet provider Grande is about to begin. To rule out conflicts, both sides submitted an updated series of questions for the jury selection. The music companies still want to know who reads TorrentFreak and Ars Technica but are also more specific. There are new topics of interest including VPN use and church-going habits.

Hollywood studios — at this point, anyway — are set to debut a bounty of potential blockbusters in 2022 that the movie theater business desperately needs. With COVID-19 variants continuing to wreak havoc, however, it remains exasperatingly unclear which of the year’s films will stick to their scheduled debuts — or even open on the big screen at all. (Variety Intelligence Platform calls the box office trends that’ll likely hit in 2022.)