The UK Intellectual Property Office has published the latest edition of its Online Copyright Infringement Tracker. Live sports piracy remains stubbornly high and with a 36% overall infringement rate, the situation is worse than it was in 2019. Relentless anti-piracy campaigns failed to stop 3.9 million people from accessing illegal sports streams in 2022.

Warner Music India has signed a deal to acquire majority stake in Divo, a digital media and music company in India with presence across all four south Indian language music markets. This investment will help deliver Warner Music India’s strategy of having a leading presence in the entertainment sector across the whole country, the company said in a statement.

The Motion Picture Association is upgrading a platform and services that assess content security safeguards of producers and their suppliers. The Trusted Partner Network, in which members’ content security is measured against a set of best practices, will now include software and cloud security assessments, adding to those of physical locations and home workplaces. The intent of the Trusted Partner Network, being relaunched as the TPN+ platform, is to have a set of standards for vendors as a way to prevent instances like the pre-release leaks of footage from major blockbusters.

Exclusive data provided to Variety Intelligence Platform by piracy-focused research firm Muso measured 2022 activity across a wide range of piracy sites, including illegal streaming, torrent, web download and stream-ripping platforms.

With NTO 3.0 (New Tariff Order) coming into force from February 1, 2023, a handful of multi-system operators (MSO) or distribution platform operators (DPO) belonging to AIDCF are yet to confirm the compliance to TRAI.

The move follows a recommendation by the parliamentary standing committee on finance on acting against anti-competitive behaviour in digital markets to prevent the formation of monopolies. The panel had also suggested digital competition legislation to ensure a fair, transparent and contestable digital ecosystem in the country and identification of systemically important digital intermediaries (SIDIs).

India has been ranked third in the list of highest contributors of visits to content piracy websites with over 7 billion visits through torrent sites in 2022, according to a report by global advisory firm Ankura.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been pushing for self-reliance in everything from manufacture to vaccine development, and especially technology, while also trying to rein in global tech firms with laws to limit data transfers, banning Chinese apps, and policing online content more vigourously.

The Indian government has said that since the IT Rules and content-related Code of Ethics for online platforms came into effect in 2021, 265 complaints have been received and were settled as per law.