Rob Report 2024 highlights India’s entertainment sector loses Rs 224 billion annually to piracy, urging stronger enforcement, fair pricing, and better access to legal content

The unexplained blocking of Linktree once again exposes India’s broken regime for internet takedowns. Users across multiple ISPs cannot access the service, yet the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) claims it never issued an order, and Department of Telecommunications (DoT) refuses to clarify.

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance has selected the subject ‘A Study On Virtual Digital Assets (VDAs) and the Way Forward’ for scrutiny during 2024-25. The Committee listed this as item number 3141 in the Lok Sabha Bulletin Part – II that was uploaded on August 14.

Spotify’s explicit content problem is not an accident. It reflects a design choice in how the platform handles responsibility. Instead of owning the problem, Spotify outsources it to distributors and users and only steps in after violations surface.

Academy Award-winning producer Guneet Monga Kapoor is taking her advocacy for women in Indian cinema to the Toronto International Film Festival, where an Indian government-backed program will showcase projects with female creatives in key roles.

Since September 2023, a national campaign run by Sky and entertainment partners has attempted to convince illegal stream consumers to dump them in favor of platforms operating on the right side of the law. 

Shows like The Royals and Nadaaniyan, which faced heavy trolling online, emerged among the top streaming
originals in Ormax Media’s mid-year list, with 15.5 million and 8.9 million viewers.

India’s ambition to become a $5 trillion economy by 2027 and fulfill the vision of Viksit Bharat @2047 hinges critically on the vitality of its digital economy.

The Parliament is set to question the MIB on August 20 over the proposal to allow multiple television rating agencies in India