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    India’s DPI a force whose time has come, nothing can stop it: MoS IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar

    • 04.09.2023
    • Telecom.com\EconomicTimes

    The minister said the Indian approach on DPI smashes old normal, which was about big tech companies dominating the space, and paves the way for a new normal, one that is open source, nimble, consumer-driven, and 'non-intermediated'.

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    Price hikes, password-sharing curbs to shape SVoD’s future in India

    • 04.09.2023
    • LiveMint

    NEW DELHI : Streaming platforms Netflix and Disney+ Hotstar are in various stages of curbing password sharing in India, while others like Amazon Prime Video raised fees earlier this year, setting the course for subscription-based video-on-demand (SVoD) services in the country.

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    IAMAI and CUTS write to TRAI highlighting concerns on OTT regulation consultation paper

    • 01.09.2023
    • Telecom.com/EconomicTimes

    On July 7, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) had kicked off its much- anticipated consultation process on the question of regulating over-the-top (OTT) apps such as WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal which pits the app makers and the startup community against telcos.

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    Mukesh Ambani’s Viacom 18 bags TV and digital rights for Indian cricket team’s home matches for five years

    • 01.09.2023
    • LiveMint

    Viacom18 won the media rights for all BCCI India matches for a total of ₹5963 crore. It will pay ₹3101 crore for digital rights which is ₹35.23 per match and for TV, it will pay ₹2862 or 32.52 crore per match.

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    Indian enterprises are expanding public cloud presence: EY-FICCI

    • 01.09.2023
    • Telecom.com/EconomicTimes

    The report by EY and FICCI titled "India's cloud and data revolution" found that 78% organisations already have more than 30% data on cloud; and 58% are focusing on new workloads for modernisation initiatives. India is turning into a hub of cloud first companies led by a strong influx of global capability centres that thrive on a cloud focused talent pool.

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    Credit for music scores remains a jarring note in Bollywood

    • 01.09.2023
    • LiveMint

    While composers and lyricists are granted rights under the Copyright Act, legal experts point out that labels often manage specific agreements where they remain sole owners of the work in question

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    Govts. Must ‘Encourage or Compel’ Internet Companies to Fight Piracy

    • 01.09.2023
    • TorrentFreak

    A massive coalition of major rightsholders says governments must encourage or even compel companies doing business on the internet to collaborate in the fight against piracy. The USPTO submission from the IIPA coalition contains direct criticism of ICANN on domains and Cloudflare by implication; the U.S. government must stop pirate sites from using reverse proxy services, IIPA says.

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    Now buffering: Advertisers wary of investments in desi short video apps?

    • 31.08.2023
    • exchange4media

    While some industry watchers say Indian short video platforms may have lost their charm among advertisers with some reevaluating investments, others opine the future is still promising for the apps

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    Google Removes ‘Pirate’ URLs from Users’ Privately Saved Links

    • 31.08.2023
    • TorrentFreak

    To date, Google has processed more than seven billion copyright takedown requests for its search engine. The majority of the reported links are purged from Google's search index, as required by the DMCA. Recently, however, Google appears to gone a step further, using search takedowns to "moderate" users' privately saved links collections

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    AVIA, Indonesian body sign pact to fight online piracy

    • 31.08.2023
    • Indian Broadcasting World

    The Asia Video Industry Association (AVIA) and the Video Streaming Association of Indonesia (AVISI) yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in Jakarta.

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