{"id":1019172,"date":"2026-07-06T09:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T03:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019172"},"modified":"2026-07-06T10:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T04:30:23","slug":"piracy-leash-on-telegram-as-centre-seeks-action-against-film-and-ott-content-leaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/06\/piracy-leash-on-telegram-as-centre-seeks-action-against-film-and-ott-content-leaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Piracy leash on Telegram as Centre seeks action against film and OTT content leaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre has issued a fresh notice to messaging app Telegram, directing it to take immediate measures against the widespread dissemination of pirated films, OTT content and other audio-visual material through its platform, sources said on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>In its notice, the information and broadcasting ministry sought a report from Telegram within 15 days on the steps taken to prevent, detect and remove pirated content from the platform. <\/p>\n<p>The notice came a few days after the electronics and IT ministry served notices to Telegram and Signal on their existing username feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre has issued a fresh notice to messaging app Telegram, directing it to take immediate measures against the widespread dissemination of pirated films, OTT content and other audio-visual material through its platform, sources said on Saturday. In its notice, the information and broadcasting ministry sought a report from Telegram within 15 days on the steps taken to prevent, detect and remove pirated content from the platform. The notice came a few days after the electronics and IT ministry served notices to Telegram and Signal on their existing username feature.<\/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-1019172","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\/1019172","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=1019172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019191,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019172\/revisions\/1019191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}