The legal dispute between a group of filmmakers and Reddit is heating up. The movie companies want Reddit to identify several users so they can provide evidence for a lawsuit against Internet provider RCN. Reddit refuses to do so, citing the right to anonymous speech, but the filmmakers suggest that's a disingenuous defense.

Shomali said creating for Netflix was about “freedom” to “tell stories that I believe in and that I want to be heard.” She added: “I always call Netflix the global village of the world where all the countries meet” and creatives get a chance to be seen.

On top of billions of URL removals, at least 10,000 domains have already been deindexed and permanently removed from Google's search results on copyright grounds. In response to some pirate sites ditching regular domains and publishing their IP addresses instead, Google is now deindexing by IP address when certain standards are met.

A national court in Buenos Aires, Argentina, requires local Internet providers to block thirty pirate streaming services. The dynamic blocking order sets an important precedent, local anti-piracy outfit Alianza stresses. Blocklist updates are no unnecessary luxury either, as many of the targeted domains were already outdated before the measures went live.

With India’s own 4G and 5G stack developed by a consortium led by Tata Group’s TCS (Tata Consultancy Services), the country can take the lead in the telecom equipment market. The discussions are already on with multiple countries across the world to implement India’s 4G-5G technology.

Global streaming operation Netflix is forecast to spend $1.9 billion on local content in the Asia-Pacific region this year as group revenue from the region accelerates to 12%, according to a new report. The content investment spending figure represents a 15% hike.

Taking note of the inconveniences that may be caused to Indian teleport operators uplinking foreign TV channels, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) has come up with a temporary solution till the processes get fine-tuned.

"India in particular, by laying the groundwork for digital public infrastucture starting with identity system, allows people to build on top of that. And to make financial access and financial payment an element of that in a trusted financial access and financial payment an element of that in a trusted way allows for an incredible variety of applications. We are just at the beginning of this. We are seeing incredible ingenuity about using this, and it is many different sectors," Gates said speaking at the event.

In the new special report “2023 Media & Tech Trend Tracker,” Variety Intelligence Platform offers a guided tour of an ever-evolving landscape, one that has experienced profound changes since the first iteration of this report, “The Future of Content,” was introduced just a year ago.