{"id":1019140,"date":"2026-07-06T08:50:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T03:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019140"},"modified":"2026-07-06T09:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T04:14:10","slug":"centre-directs-telegram-to-crack-down-on-pirated-content-seeks-action-report-within-15-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/06\/centre-directs-telegram-to-crack-down-on-pirated-content-seeks-action-report-within-15-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre directs Telegram to crack down on pirated content, seeks action report within 15 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre has issued a notice to messaging platform Telegram, directing it to curb the widespread circulation of pirated films, OTT content and other copyrighted audio-visual material on its platform, government officials said on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>According to a PTI report, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has sought an Action Taken Report (ATR) from Telegram within 15 days, signalling what officials described as a shift in the government&#8217;s approach from individual content takedowns to holding platforms accountable for preventing piracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre has issued a notice to messaging platform Telegram, directing it to curb the widespread circulation of pirated films, OTT content and other copyrighted audio-visual material on its platform, government officials said on Saturday. According to a PTI report, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has sought an Action Taken Report (ATR) from Telegram within 15 days, signalling what officials described as a shift in the government&#8217;s approach from individual content takedowns to holding platforms accountable for preventing piracy.<\/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":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019140","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=1019140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019162,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019140\/revisions\/1019162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}