{"id":1019131,"date":"2026-07-06T08:39:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T03:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019131"},"modified":"2026-07-06T09:03:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T03:33:47","slug":"centre-cracks-down-on-piracy-issues-notice-to-telegram-over-leaked-movies-and-ott-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/06\/centre-cracks-down-on-piracy-issues-notice-to-telegram-over-leaked-movies-and-ott-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre cracks down on piracy, issues notice to Telegram over leaked movies and OTT content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre has issued a notice to messaging platform Telegram over the alleged circulation of pirated movies, OTT shows and other copyrighted audio-visual content on its platform, directing the company to take corrective measures and submit an action taken report within 15 days, The Indian Express reported on Saturday quoting its sources. <\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&amp;B) has asked Telegram to strengthen its mechanisms for detecting, reporting, blocking access to and removing pirated content. The government has also sought details of the platform\u2019s grievance redressal system for filmmakers, OTT platforms, content producers and law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre has issued a notice to messaging platform Telegram over the alleged circulation of pirated movies, OTT shows and other copyrighted audio-visual content on its platform, directing the company to take corrective measures and submit an action taken report within 15 days, The Indian Express reported on Saturday quoting its sources. According to the report, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&amp;B) has asked Telegram to strengthen its mechanisms for detecting, reporting, blocking access to and removing pirated content. The government has also sought details of the platform\u2019s grievance redressal system for filmmakers, OTT platforms, content producers and law [&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-1019131","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\/1019131","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=1019131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019151,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019131\/revisions\/1019151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}