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    Software Downloads Netflix & Disney+ Videos to Make DRM-Free Copies

    • 18.05.2022
    • TorrentFreak

    Software available right now from the Microsoft Store claims to allow Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO, Disney+ subscribers and more to download movies and TV shows to their own machines, as a permanent DRM-free copy. In itself this raises legal issues but buried away in the software's fine print is something that all prospective users should know about.

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    Is it Illegal to Use Pirate Streaming Sites?

    • 18.05.2022
    • TorrentFreak

    Downloading pirated movies and TV shows is against the law in the United States. The same is true for those who operate a pirate streaming site. However, people who use these streaming sites to consume pirated content may not be copyright infringers. Law professor James Gibson explains why.

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    Global SVOD subscriptions to reach 1.69 billion by 2027: Report

    • 18.05.2022
    • exchange4media

    Global SVOD subscriptions will increase by 485 million between 2021 and 2027 to reach 1.69 billion, Digital TV Research has said in its latest research report. Six US-based platforms will have 988 million paying SVOD subscribers by 2027, up from 612 million in 2021.

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    DCC backs Trai on 5G spectrum prices, DoT may seek Cabinet approval next week

    • 18.05.2022
    • Telecom.com/EconomicTimes

    The DCC, an inter-ministerial panel with the telecom secretary as its chairman, is also of the view that millimetre wave spectrum in the 27.5-28.5 GHz range be kept out of the 5G spectrum auction and retained instead for satellite players planning to offer broadband-from-space services.

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    MoS Rajeev Chandrasekhar calls Trai a model regulator

    • 18.05.2022
    • Telecom.com/EconomicTimes

    In his message to TRAI on its 25th anniversary, Chandrasekhar said that his association with the regulator dated back to the earliest days when it was first set up and the debates on the need, structure and process were being done.

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    Disney vows to show very few commercials on ad-supported Disney+

    • 18.05.2022
    • LiveMint

    Walt Disney Co. is taking a less-is-more approach to selling commercials on its Disney+ streaming service.

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    I&B Minister Anurag Thakur meets MPA chairman Charles Rivkin

    • 17.05.2022
    • ANI

    Mr. Anurag Thakur pitches for 75 Indian creative minds enhancing skills with American studios

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    What India’s new VPN rules mean for your privacy

    • 17.05.2022
    • Telecom.com/EconomicTimes

    On April 28, India’s cybersecurity watchdog CERT-In issued new rules that require companies offering virtual private networks (VPNs) to preserve a wide range of data on their customers, including their contact numbers, email IDs and IP addresses, for five years.

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    DoT working on bringing regulatory structure at world level: Vaishnaw

    • 17.05.2022
    • Telecom.com/EconomicTimes

    “Under the PM Gati Shakti portal for Rights of Way (RoW) approvals, 32 states have joined in our federal structure for a simultaneous, simplified approval system for RoW and the credit goes to honorable PM’s vision,” Vaishnaw said

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    5G will boost India’s economy by $450 bln in 15 years: Modi

    • 17.05.2022
    • Telecom.com/EconomicTimes

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for rapid 5G network rollouts in India, saying the next-gen mobile broadband technology would transform lives and boost India’s economic fortunes by a whopping $450 billion in the next one-and-a-half decade.

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