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    RIAA Ramps Up Efforts to Remove Music Download Apps from Google Play

    • 02.10.2023
    • TorrentFreak

    Over the past month, the RIAA has sent dozens of takedown notices to Google, asking the company to remove problematic apps from its Android app store. The targeted apps advertise themselves as music download tools. This includes the popular "Video and Music Downloader" app that was downloaded more than five million times.

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    Delhi HC restrains online platforms from unauthorised streaming of ICC Cricket WC 2023

    • 29.09.2023
    • BestMediaInfo

    The Delhi High Court has restrained online platforms from unauthorisedly broadcasting and streaming the upcoming ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023. The court's order came on a lawsuit by Star India and Novi Digital Entertainment which operates Disney+ Hotstar platform.

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    MoS IT bats for net neutrality amid TRAI’s move to selectively ban OTTs

    • 29.09.2023
    • Telecom.com\EconomicTimes

    New Delhi: Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, on Friday said India is one of the first countries in the world to ensure net neutrality and "pushed back against Telcos wanting to be gatekeepers of the Internet".

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    Sony-Zee Merger Delayed – Global Bulletin

    • 29.09.2023
    • Variety

    The proposed merger between Indian powerhouse Zee Entertainment Enterprises and Sony‘s Indian TV businesses, which has been nearly two years in the making, is likely to be delayed further, Sony said in a filing on Friday.

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    JioCinema Investor Uday Shankar Hails India’s Next Video Revolution: ‘Now Is the Time to Create an Alternative to Television’

    • 29.09.2023
    • Variety

    Uday Shankar, the former head of Disney in India, says that “limitless” changes to the Indian media landscape may soon leave behind conventional ideas of television and video.

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    Uday Shankar believes time ripe to create an ‘alternative to TV’

    • 28.09.2023
    • Indian Broadcasting World

    Bodhi Tree Systems co-founder and former Disney APAC chief Uday Shankar has made it clear that though he was nurtured by the TV ecosystem, which he also lovingly helped grow while in various media organisations in India, the time has arrived to create an alternative to television.

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    Digital India Bill set to add myriad online offence laws under ‘user harm’

    • 28.09.2023
    • Telecom.com\EconomicTimes

    The Digital India Bill is likely to define and encode in law various online offences such as cryptojacking, astroturfing, dogpiling or cyber-mob attacks, dogwhistling, swatting, gaslighting and catfishing, people in know of the development told ET.

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    Demands for imposing revenue share between internet cos, telcos akin to rent-seeking: IAMAI

    • 28.09.2023
    • Telecom.com\EconomicTimes

    New Delhi: The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) has said demands made by telcos for revenue sharing mechanisms between internet companies and telecom service providers (TSPs) "smack of rent-seeking", and would disincentivise growth for OTT-based businesses.

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    I&B ministry rolls out amendments to Cable Television Network Rules

    • 28.09.2023
    • LiveMint

    New Delhi: The ministry of information and broadcasting on Thursday issued a notification amending the Cable Television Network Rules, 1994, setting out a new procedure for the renewal of registrations for multi-system operators (MSOs).

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    Tata Play unveils Tata Play Binge PaaS for OTT aggregators across the globe

    • 28.09.2023
    • BestMediaInfo

    Tata Play announced the launch of the Tata Play Binge PaaS for OTT aggregators across the globe. The first project collaboration to that effect is with Philippines’ leading Pay-Tv provider, Cignal TV.

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