The Italian telecoms regulator AGCOM already has tools at its disposal to fight piracy but legislation winding its way through the corridors of power will move things to a new level. In addition to making it easier for copyright holders to disable access to identified infringing content at the ISP level, similar powers will enable urgent and precautionary blocking even before an infringement takes place.

Netflix loves to tout its culture of avoiding rules and minimizing corporate red tape. But of course, the company does have operating guidelines, famously detailed in the Netflix Culture document posted on its website. Co-founder Reed Hastings even wrote a 2020 book elaborating on the principles, titled “No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention"

Netflix's plan to come up with a lower-priced ad-supported subscription plan has failed to enthuse the Indian OTT market. Experts believe that the strategy will have a negligible impact on the Indian market, which has a plethora of mass OTT services that follow a hybrid AVOD + SVOD model.

Viacom18, the joint venture (JV) between Reliance Industries backed TV18 and Paramount Global, is set up to become a bigger player in the market due to the Rs 13,500 crore fund infusion by James Murdoch and Uday Shankar's Bodhi Tree Systems, Paramount Global President and CEO Bob Bakish told analysts during the company's Q1 2022 earnings call.

The Walt Disney Company has revealed that there are 500 local original titles in various stages of development and production for Disney+ and gave a breakdown of the number of titles slated for each region during its second-quarter earnings call for fiscal 2022.

When it comes to internationally renowned cinema, Switzerland may not be the first country that immediately springs to mind, but a law being voted on this Sunday seeks to change that by forcing streaming services to invest in local moviemaking.

Conversely, more than half of consumers in Japan (55%), Hong Kong (53%) and Australia (52%) think it is not okay to share their login details, as do 47% of Singapore’s consumers.

The communications ministry has ruled out any direct spectrum allocations to corporates for private 5G networks, with a top government official saying the latter will need to lease capacities from telcos for now. The official added that enterprises can participate in the upcoming 5G airwave auctions if they want.

With Marvel’s global juggernaut Doctor Strange missing in action in China, Disney CEO Bob Chapek called the situation there “very fluid and very complicated, both from a business standpoint and from a political standpoint.”