India’s OTT industry loses up to 30% revenue to piracy
OTT content industry in India is estimated to grow 17% over FY21 to touch a revenue of Rs33,800 crore by FY22. (Photo Imaging: Kishore Rawat)Premium
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NEW DELHI: Advertising and subscription-led video streaming services are losing up to 30% of their annual revenue to piracy as more and more Indians log in to digital platforms to watch content.
Popular shows such as Scam 1992 on SonyLIV and Ashram on MX Player have seen pirated versions surfacing within half an hour of their launch.
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Calls on the government to ‘endorse and support it’.
15 Feb, 2021 - 08:27 AM IST | By indiantelevision.com Team
NEW DELHI: The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has welcomed the toolkit for implementation of the code for self-regulation of online curated content providers brought out by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) last week.
“The tool kit and the code have been drafted by industry stakeholders who are also members of the CII national committee on media and entertainment and CII sub-committee on OTT and digital content. CII welcomes and supports this initiative and requests the government of India to endorse and support it, CII national committee on media and entertainment chairman & Disney-Star India Pvt Ltd MD K Madhavan said in a statement.
West Bengal. Six of them have made the amendments in the last three years, and two in 2020 alone, indicating an accelerating trend.
In at least two states, Karnataka and Gujarat, the amendments have led to protests by groups of both landowning and landless farmers, who have demanded that the amendments be withdrawn and allotment of surplus land to the landless be prioritised.
India’s efforts at land reforms have a long history. After Independence, starting in the 1960s, 21 states enacted land reforms laws to address the
historic inequality in land ownership in India. The laws set a limit on how much land an individual or corporation could hold, also known as a land “ceiling” and allowed the government to reapportion surplus land to the landless.