ZEEL And Telegram Crack Down On Piracy While Young Users Embrace It

Digital piracy isn’t a new concept by any means.

People have been duplicating and sharing music, movies, TV shows, video games, software applications, and even educational material without paying the expected price for it.

Do you remember the age of LimeWire, The Pirate Bay (TPB), torrents, DVDRips, 320kbps mp3 audio and FLAC files, and more that played an instrumental role in enabling the free distribution of digital media?

Even live sporting events that are televised and streamed live find themselves being shared freely across numerous illegal websites.

Piracy in its essence has been around since before the internet went mainstream, with people recording songs and movies on cassette players and VCR (videocassette recorders) tapes, as well as video games on floppy disks.

However, since the widescale adoption of the internet, piracy has soared, leaving media production houses helpless at times. This is when they approached governments around the world to take active measures to reduce the spread of pirated media.

This fight remains alive.

ZEEL

In India, OTT giant Zee Entertainment Enterprises AKA ZEEL has secured a Dynamic+ John Doe order from the Delhi High Court.

This comes with extensive protection for its vast content library, which includes films, TV shows, and other OTT titles on its ZEE5 platform.

The order allows ZEEL to directly notify India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT), Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to quickly pull down websites and platforms that are hosting its content illegally.

This means that ZEEL doesn’t require additional court orders to block such websites in the future.

The order, which extends beyond live sporting events, includes restraining 103 websites currently distributing ZEEL’s content illegally.

The order marks a big step in Indian copyright law and sets a benchmark in curbing piracy.

In a statement provided to the Korea Communications Commission, Telegram conveyed its commitment to remove copyrighted material and illegal content from its platform.

This includes curtailing the unauthorized distribution of South Korean copyrighted content.

P.CoK, the Kakao Entertainment-owned anti-piracy task force that also works to combat piracy published a post on X that showed this plan in action.

This included screenshots of messages that previously bore pirated manhwa (the Korean term for comics and print cartoons) content, which were replaced with “This message couldn’t be displayed on your device due to copyright infringement” dialog boxes.

A part of the caption from the post read, “Telegram recently informed the Korean Communications Commission of its commitment to strict action against illegal content and copyright violations.”

Furthermore, the social networking platform notified the KCC of the appointment of a youth protection officer to strengthen its self-regulation, which came two days after a KCC request.

Telegram has been known for being a haven for illegal content and pirated materials, even landing the platform’s CEO Pavel Durov in prison over allegations of drug trafficking, unauthorized transactions, and other illegal activities.

Even in India, Telegram was pulled up for enabling piracy, extortion, and more, with the government shutting down groups on the platform.

Piracy

Despite numerous such efforts, piracy remains rampant around the world.

In fact, according to some studies, a large number of users feel piracy is justified.

Source

A study conducted by Ipsos and published by the Norwegian government that surveyed 1,411 participants aged 15 and older found that almost half of Norwegians below the age of 30 don’t find any issues in engaging in piracy, with nearly half saying they possess pirated digital media.

The primary reason justifying the act included the high costs associated with accessing media content.

Interestingly, around 33% of respondents across all age groups felt that indulging in piracy and purchasing knock-off products (the non-digital form of piracy) was acceptable. For knock-off products, 49% of respondents under the age of 30 felt it was acceptable if the authentic product was too expensive.

Ahead of this, 21% under 30 felt piracy is acceptable when the official channels are expensive, with another 29% partially agreeing.

In cases where no official channel offered the content, 66% under 30 and 47% of all respondents felt that piracy was fine.

Considering the levels of piracy around the world, which includes pirated videos getting over 230 billion views every year and 37% of software worldwide being unlicensed, it’s going to be a while before piracy is eradicated, if ever.

What are your thoughts on piracy? Do you think streaming platforms need to reduce their pricing or are they fairly priced?

Let us know in the comments below!

First published on Fri, Nov 22, 2024

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