The piracy liability trial between several major record labels and Internet provider Grande is about to begin. To rule out conflicts, both sides submitted an updated series of questions for the jury selection. The music companies still want to know who reads TorrentFreak and Ars Technica but are also more specific. There are new topics of interest including VPN use and church-going habits.
Hollywood studios — at this point, anyway — are set to debut a bounty of potential blockbusters in 2022 that the movie theater business desperately needs. With COVID-19 variants continuing to wreak havoc, however, it remains exasperatingly unclear which of the year’s films will stick to their scheduled debuts — or even open on the big screen at all. (Variety Intelligence Platform calls the box office trends that’ll likely hit in 2022.)
Two years is generally too short a period for any cycle of change to manifest itself, hold sway and finally become permanent. COVID-19 has defied that trend. The new normal that the pandemic has set off in the ecosystem in which brands, businesses and consumers operate reinforced itself in a fast-forward mode in 2021.
A new survey from S&P Global Market Intelligence's Kagan research unit has found that about one in ten (11%) of Netflix users share passwords, a rate that is slightly down from 13% in 2019 and 12% in 2020.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Tuesday wrote to the Tamil Nadu Digital Cable TV Operators Association to withdraw its legal notice filed through Utkrishtha Law Agency seeking directions for pay channels not to inflate the prices of Cable TV channels.
The ministry of information and broadcasting (I&B) has given its go-ahead to the multi-system operators (MSOs) to share infrastructure with other MSOs on a voluntary basis. As per the guidelines released by the ministry, the responsibility for compliance with guidelines and other regulations will lie with each MSO independently.
Mark Zuckerberg has been big on all the concepts related to virtual reality and Facebook's acquisitions over the years have been a testimony to that. Now that the company has officially been rebranded to Meta, here is what 2022 looks like for what was once a social media giant.
In 2021, over-the-top (OTT) streaming platforms saw films in the four south Indian languages, including their dubbed versions, gain big audiences and as much as 10% of overall viewing minutes.
Popcorn Time, the once-popular app that made watching pirated movies and television shows almost as easy as using Netflix, shut down.
Fewer people are signing up for the streaming service, and that's worrying investors. Then again, subscribers aren't canceling, and that's important, too.