The EU’s game-changing Audiovisual Media Services Directive, which is expected to prompt new rules of engagement between producers and streaming giants, is finally in various stages of implementation across Europe.

Companies like Amazon's Prime Video and Netflix are inspecting planned shows and scripts, with some even deleting scenes that could be controversial, five Bollywood directors and producers, and two industry sources said.

The announcement gave film exhibitors less than two weeks to rehire staff members, reorder concessions and outfit their cavernous venues with plexiglass, hospital grade air filters and other safety measures. Though welcomed, the process was no simple endeavor.

In a meeting with OTT representatives, the Minister said the government will create an Inter-Departmental Committee to look at complaints that remain unresolved at the self-regulatory level.

Governments will borrow some elements of the distributed ledger technology behind private cryptocurrencies, but they will very much want to retain control of what circulates as money in their economies. Some will succeed.

Now that the government can force any messenger app to share the original source of a message, there is no privacy/encryption left.

Bloomberg reports that the companies are preparing to apply for licenses to operate retail payments and settlement systems in the country.

Court protects Amazon Prime Video India Commercial head Aparna Purohit from arrest in ‘Tandav’ web series row.

Prakash Javadekar holds talks with OTT representatives.