Italy's plan to introduce an anti-piracy "mega-firewall" is causing alarm among ISPs. Alongside concerns that the system introduces a single "point of failure" that could undermine the security of national networks, ISPs believe they could be held liable when over-blocking enters the equation. More generally, consumers could end up paying for blocking, rather than the rightsholders set to benefit from it.
Russia's ongoing campaign to block VPN providers, hound them out of the country, or have them delisted from search results, is massive and ongoing. Realizing that not everything can be achieved by brute force, a video campaign financed by the government is now trying to persuade citizens that using a VPN is much worse than not using a VPN at all.
In 2022, the Indian government officially recognized Esports as a sport, placing it on an equal footing with mainstream sports like cricket and football. In the same year, Esports debuted as an official medal sport at the Asian Games and as a pilot event at the Commonwealth Games. The Indian DOTA 2 (a multiplayer battle arena video game) team created history by winning bronze at the first Commonwealth Esports Championship held in Birmingham last year.
Last week, a German court ruled that Uberspace is liable for hosting the website of youtube-dl, an open-source tool that allows people to download content from YouTube. The owner of the hosting company warns that this "ridiculous" and "devastating" verdict opens the door to privatized censorship.
Transaction video-on-demand service BookMyShow Stream has partnered with VROTT, a subscription-based streaming platform to offer the latter’s global titles dubbed in native languages on its platform
The government is working on regulations to restrain big tech companies from achieving, or misusing, market dominance, in light of the competition watchdog’s recent rulings against Google, officials in the know told ET.
Given the three seemingly parallel regulatory streams arising from the DIB, the Digital Competition Act (DCA), which is another proposed legislation on digital competition, and the amendments to the Competition Act, “it is rather clear that the technology sector, especially those that are considered Big Tech, is heading into a realm of active regulation", said Ravisekhar Nair, partner, at Economic Laws Practice (ELP).
Anti-piracy coalition ACE continues its crackdown on pirate sites with a series of new DMCA subpoenas. The targets of the latest wave include The Pirate Bay. ACE hopes that Cloudflare can help to identify the operators of the notorious torrent site. Whether this quest will result in any actionable information is unknown.
The government on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that the new Data Protection Bill was ready and would be introduced in Parliament during the monsoon session in July
Given the three seemingly parallel regulatory streams arising from the DIB, the Competition Act (DCA), which is another proposed legislation on digital competition Act (DCA), which is another proposed legislation on digital competition, and the amendments to the Competition Act, “it is rather clear that the technology sector, especially those that are considered Big Tech, is heading into a realm of active regulation", said Ravisekhar Nair, partner, at Economic Laws Practice (ELP)