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STOCKHOLM: An activist group has claimed to have scraped tens of millions of tracks from Spotify, raising fresh concerns over copyright abuse and the use of...
NEW DELHI: India’s information and broadcasting ministry (MIB) has thrown open the floor to industry heavyweights, demanding fresh ammunition in the war against digital piracy. The...
MUMBAI: Indian authorities have dismantled an international television piracy network that streamed over 10,000 channels—including banned Pakistani networks—to customers via WhatsApp groups, in what investigators describe...
MUMBAI: A global piracy party just got shut down—with a solid rap on the knuckles, thanks to global OTT aggregation platform the Uday Reddy-run Yupp TV....
MUMBAI: While the Motion Pictures Association (MPA) loves pointing fingers at India for its piracy woes, they may want to swivel their gaze towards Europe. New...
MUMBAI: Piracy in the Nordics isn’t just about dodging subscription fees anymore—it’s now fuelling organised crime. New research by Mediavision reveals over 1.5 million households in...
Mumbai: Friend MTS, a provider of video content security solutions, reported that several video service providers in Canada have chosen it to prevent piracy using dynamic...
MUMBAI: LaLiga president Javier Tebas said he is prepared to collaborate with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to stamp out piracy of...
MUMAI: Piracy has been the bane of both broadcasters and streamers for some time now. Yes, both have anti-piracy crews who spend crores of rupees behind...
Mumbai: India’s music industry, a vibrant blend of tradition and modernity, is evolving rapidly with over 20,000 original songs created annually by around 40,000 artists. As...
MUMBAI: There’s reason to celebrate at Disney Star India. The media behemoth’s anti-piracy cell – led by Major Ashok Yadav – has – with the help...
Mumbai: An FIR was registered on a complaint filed by Viacom18 at Banaswadi police station, Bangalore against a suspect who was arrested on 12 August. Viacom18...
Mumbai: With vast sums of money to be made, it’s not surprising that streaming pirates are continually upping their game to keep their highly profitable illegal...
New Delhi: Maharashtra Cyber Police has arrested a 28-year-old Hyderabad-based IT engineer for alleged copyright violation of Viacom18’ content using a standalone pirated application called Thop TV....
New Delhi: The popular messaging app, Telegram, is fast becoming the leading source of pirated content throughout Asia – and the cause of substantial revenue loss...
New Delhi: The government has sought public comments on the draft Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill 2021 which proposes to penalise film piracy with a jail term and...
Mumbai: Hours after its release, the much-awaited movie Radhe got leaked on pirated websites, compelling the producers to take action. After appealing to the public to say no...
KOLKATA: Independent video software provider Synamedia has integrated its security and watermarking solutions with Akamai to protect customers’ streaming OTT content. Synamedia’s solutions now detect and...
KOLKATA: There is no dearth of OTT platforms in India, and which one is the most popular is a matter of debate. But what is very...
KOLKATA: With the tectonic shift in technology, piracy has found new ways to expand its reach and impact. And given the ongoing lean period in TV...
KOLKATA: Of all the challenges, piracy is one major issue that has been bothering the over-the-top ecosystem for a long time. Video piracy tends to eat...
KUALA LUMPUR: A new study of the online content viewing behaviour of Malaysian consumers, has found a massive 64 per cent decrease in consumers accessing piracy...
MUMBAI: Conditional access system (CAS) and subscriber management systems (SMS) are two key pillars of delivering broadcast services in a secured and encrypted manner to authorised...
MUMBAI: The increasing popularity of streaming platforms brings with it the threat of piracy. To tackle this menace, SonyLIV recently chose Intertrust’s cloud-based multi-DRM (digital rights...
MUMBAI: With the advent of digital content platforms, pay TV industry across the world is facing stiff competition. The pay TV Innovation Forum report produced by...
MUMBAI: A few days ago FIFA accused the Saudi Arabia’s satellite operator Arabsat of being involved in the act of transmitting pirated signals of the World...
MUMBAI: India’s intellectual property (IP) mascot – IP Nani – was launched by Commerce and Industry minister Suresh Prabhu over the weekend. Speaking on the occasion,...
NEW DELHI: There is general agreement among broadcasters and delivery platform operators including direct to home (DTH) as well as digital cable operators that a joint...
MUMBAI: CASBAA has announced the formation of the Coalition Against Piracy (CAP), a major initiative to coordinate industry resources in the fight against rampant content theft....
NEW DELHI: The newly-launched Scheme for IPR Awareness – Creative India; Innovative India aims to conduct over 4000 IPR awareness workshops/seminars in academic institutions (schools and...
MUMBAI: That the Indian Premier League has become one of the most valuable sports properties globally is a well-documented fact. The audience in India stays glued...
MUMBAI: Continuing its no-tolerance stand against illegal transmission/re-transmission of Pay TV Channels by cable operators indulging in piracy of STAR TV Signals, officials of Star TV...
MUMBAI: Continuing its no-tolerance stand against illegal transmission/re-transmission of Pay TV Channels by cable operators indulging in piracy of STAR TV Signals, officials of Star TV...
NEW DELHl: Advertising-financed piracy was an extremely profitable business as an economic study of the US market alone showed estimated pirate website ad revenue at $227...
NEW DELHl: Advertising-financed piracy was an extremely profitable business as an economic study of the US market alone showed estimated pirate website ad revenue at $227...
MUMBAI: In a major relief for Zee Entertainment Enterprises (Zeel), Delhi Police acting on FIR No. 243/2014 after carrying out a detailed initial investigations raided premises...
MUMBAI: Shemaroo Entertainment has obtained a John Doe order from the Mumbai High Court to protect its latest release Hunterrr from the menace of piracy. The...
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) has directed Taj Television – the distribution arm of Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL) – to...
MUMBAI: With digital universe being the destination of the future, MPDA in association with Film & Television Producers Guild of India (FTPGI) has launched an initiative...
NEW DELHI: Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar today welcomed the initiative taken by the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry to launch a joint campaign...
MUMBAI: The empire is striking back. In the US, broadcasters won a battle to disallow transmission of their free to air signals to Aereo subscribers when...
The word piracy sends shivers down the spines of all content owners, but there is one man who has made it his mission to eradicate piracy...
MUMBAI: A good deal of copyright infringement of Hong Kong-made films from YouTube has been unearthed with pirated footage of over 200 Hong Kong films found...
NEW DELHI: Digitalization of cinema is vital in controlling the distribution and exhibition of cinema in digital format and safeguarding intellectual property since the Indian...
BANGALORE: Taking a cue from his counterpart in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka CM Dharam Singh said that his cabinet had okayed the proposal to bring about and...
NEW DELHI: The entertainment industry, comprising various segments, today collectively made a representation to the finance ministry seeking tax sops, including exemption from service tax for...
NEW DELHI: Zee-Turner, a distribution joint venture between Zee Telefilms and Time Warner, has appealed to the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) on a...
MUMBAI: The Thai government has outlined a ten point plan to improve the pay TV piracy environment within Thailand, including commitments by cable ops to respect...
MUMBAI: Credit Rating Information Services of India Ltd (Crisil) Crisil has been working on drawing up a risk evaluation model for the Indian entertainment industry,...
Music television channels and Radio FM will need to face the ‘music’ resulting from the salvo that has been fired by the Indian Music Industry (IMI)....
