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Code red, primal fear & outsider: 3 regulatory challenges for OTT platforms

A kiss, a love story, meat on the table? It's not clear what can offend people's sensibilities. They are all over social media, filing public interest litigation (PILs) and are issuing calls to ban, maim or kill a film, show, or a celebrity every other day. Will a content code stop them? Should we be afraid that the regulation their clamour pushes through will inhibit the wonderfully different programming on offer by streaming brands such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video or Voot? Why aren’t Google, Facebook, YouTube et al a part of this regulatory sweep? The first part of a series looks at streaming video as a regulatory regime for online content is being put in place. As the government and industry frantically put together a regulatory architecture around digital (entertainment) content, Business Standard's Vanita Kohli-Khandekar analyses three main questions that arise.

IAF objects to Anil Kapoor-starrer Netflix film scenes, asks for withdrawal

The film, a mockumentary featuring Anil Kapoor playing an actor depicting an officer and director Anurag Kashyap, is scheduled to be released on Netflix later this month

Top 10 Indian Web Series of 2020: Perfect to binge watch this weekend?

Filmmaker Hansal Mehta''s "Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story" has emerged as the highest user-rated show in IMDb''s ''Top 10 Indian Web Series of 2020'' list. "Scam 1992" earned acclaim for the thrilling portrayal of stockbroker Harshad Mehta, played by Pratik Gandhi, who single-handedly took the stock market to dizzying heights, and his catastrophic downfall. The IMDb ratings are determined by users who rate films and TV shows on a 10-point scale. With a rating of 9.5 out of 10, "Scam 1992", a SonyLIV show, has also landed a spot in IMDb''s top 250 TV series of all time.

The bogey of content regulation

On November 9, the Cabinet Secretariat issued a notification that brings digital and online media within the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting

Characteristics of bubbles

There is no reason why the potential bubble in tech stocks will pop anytime soon

Counting every move

Technology has brought change to tennis, cricket, golf, pole vaulting, football, running, you name it. But the change has rarely been so complete, and so near-instantaneous as in chess

Netflix to host StreamFest in India; free viewing on December 5-6 weekend

US-based content streaming platform Netflix on Friday said it will host 'StreamFest' in India on December 5-6 that will allow non-subscribers to experience the service for free

Serial entertainers

Literary fandom in East Asia is certainly of a different, and usually more intense, quality than elsewhere

Apple to slash App Store developer fee by half to 15% from Jan 1, 2021

Apple has faced ongoing scrutiny from government regulators and criticism from developers about the percentage of revenue it takes for App Store purchases

Socialising social media

Online media platforms must be regulated to protect the public from lies that polarise society

For companies like Zoom and Netflix, a Covid-19 vaccine dampens prospects

Shares in video conferencing network Zoom fell 4% on Tuesday after plunging about 17% a day earlier

India's movie buffs are up, close and personal with Hollywood: Study

The study, "Hollywood Is For Everyone", covered a sample of 1,500-plus movie buffs across eight metros and non-metros, including Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Bengaluru, Pune, Ahmedabad, Lucknow and Indore

The House of Netflix

Book review of No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention

The power of infamy

Book review of Nothing to Lose

Content over glamour: Why new-age OTT wave reminds of Doordarshan era

Actors from various backgrounds have been finding prominence thanks to OTT shows and films

Valuation gaps: Growth stock rally leaves more room for disappointment

Since 2002, the MSCI AC World Growth Index has about doubled the return of its value counterpart, yet its relative earnings expectations have failed to grow at a similar pace

Netflix tumbles 6% after results show tough streaming competition

The world's largest paid streaming service added just 2.2 million new subscribers in the third quarter

Netflix misses estimates for new subscribers as pandemic boost slows

The company added 2.2 million paid subscribers globally during the quarter that ended Sept. 30, missing Wall Street's target of 3.4 million and its own forecast

How the rise of Netflix and Prime has women rewriting rules of Bollywood

As incomes rise in the $2.9 trillion economy, per capita spending on media and entertainment is expected to almost double to $35 in India by 2021 from five years earlier, according to data from Statis

Netflix's docuseries 'Bad Boy Billionaires' tells stories all too familiar

The docuseries tells life stories of India's most notorious billionaires - Nirav Modi, Subrata Roy, Vijay Mallya and Ramalinga Raju