{"id":1019169,"date":"2026-07-06T09:09:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T03:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019169"},"modified":"2026-07-06T10:00:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T04:30:35","slug":"centre-asks-telegram-to-curb-pirated-content-seeks-compliance-report-in-15-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/06\/centre-asks-telegram-to-curb-pirated-content-seeks-compliance-report-in-15-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre asks Telegram to curb pirated content, seeks compliance report in 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. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&amp;B) has sought an Action Taken Report within 15 days, warning that continued non-compliance could invite legal action under the country&#8217;s copyright and information technology laws. <\/p>\n<p>According to government officials, the move signals a shift in the Centre&#8217;s anti-piracy strategy from targeting individual piracy channels to holding digital platforms accountable for preventing copyright violations.<\/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. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&amp;B) has sought an Action Taken Report within 15 days, warning that continued non-compliance could invite legal action under the country&#8217;s copyright and information technology laws. According to government officials, the move signals a shift in the Centre&#8217;s anti-piracy strategy from targeting individual piracy channels to holding digital platforms accountable for preventing copyright violations.<\/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":[82,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019169","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=1019169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019189,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019169\/revisions\/1019189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}