Imagine a new big screen version of the infamous Boston Strangler case, filmed in . . . Cleveland. Or an organized crime thriller based in America’s top fishing port, New Bedford, Mass., shot on location in . . . Halifax...

Bigger, better, fewer. That is the refrain inside Netflix that feature film executives, led by division chief Scott Stuber, are grappling to operate under as the digital streaming giant changes course and confronts new realities, such as lagging subscriber growth (it lost 200,000 subs in its latest quarter) and rising competition (Disney’s bundle of Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ now has 205 million subs combined, just behind Netflix’s 221 million global subs).

Before the UK passed the Digital Economy Act in 2017, critics warned that categorizing file-sharers as criminals would encourage "copyright trolls" to demand cash settlements while implying a criminal conviction might be an alternative. The government didn't listen and it is now happening. One of the parties involved is FACT, the company behind the infamous 'Piracy, It's a Crime' campaign

Mega is one of the leading file storage platforms on the Internet with more than 117 billion files stored on its servers. Given this scale, it is no surprise that these files include some infringing content. During the first quarter of 2022, Mega reported a significant increase in copyright takedown requests, targeting more than a million links.

There is never a dull moment in India's fledgling TV news industry both on and off air. In the last two years, the TV news genre has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. The rating of the genre was suspended ever since the TRP scandal was unearthed by the Mumbai Police, forcing news channels to operate without viewership data.

Virtual private networks (VPNs) that encrypt data and provide users with anonymiity online have seen a surge in use in India in recent years as the government tightened its grip on the internet to curb dissent, and as more people worked from home.

Virtual private network provider ExpressVPN has shut down its physical servers in India, rejecting the data storage demands made in the new cyber security directives issued in April by India’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), the company announced in a blog post.

It seems that Netflix has started charging its customers for sharing passwords with friends. This is not surprising, considering the company already announced the change in its policy in March. The announcement made it clear that Netflix no longer wants people to share account password with others and that it will start asking people to pay extra if they want to share the account with more people.

Box office revenue is expected to touch a record ₹12,515 crore in 2022, beating the previous high of ₹10, 948 crore in 2019, as audiences throng cinemas in large numbers with revenge consumption kicking in after two years of covid-led disruptions, according to a report by media consulting firm Ormax and media investment firm GroupM.