{"id":1019129,"date":"2026-07-06T08:38:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T03:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019129"},"modified":"2026-07-06T09:01:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T03:31:31","slug":"centre-cracks-down-on-telegram-over-film-and-ott-piracy-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/06\/centre-cracks-down-on-telegram-over-film-and-ott-piracy-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre cracks down on Telegram over film and OTT piracy issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soon after the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) pulled up Meta \u2014 first over WhatsApp\u2019s planned username rollout, then over Instagram ads accused of promoting child sexual abuse material \u2014 the government has turned its attention to Telegram, over rampant film and OTT piracy on the messaging app, according to official sources. <\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&amp;B) on Saturday issued a formal notice directing Telegram to take immediate steps against the unchecked circulation of pirated movies and streaming content on its platform. The platform has been given 15 days to file a detailed Action Taken Report (ATR) outlining the corrective measures it has put in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soon after the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) pulled up Meta \u2014 first over WhatsApp\u2019s planned username rollout, then over Instagram ads accused of promoting child sexual abuse material \u2014 the government has turned its attention to Telegram, over rampant film and OTT piracy on the messaging app, according to official sources. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&amp;B) on Saturday issued a formal notice directing Telegram to take immediate steps against the unchecked circulation of pirated movies and streaming content on its platform. The platform has been given 15 days to file a detailed Action Taken Report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019149,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019129\/revisions\/1019149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}