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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
The news agency is being questioned for enforcing its copyright. But the government needs to be asked why ANI is given such exclusive access in the first place.
Asian News International, or ANI, has landed itself in controversy after placing copyright strikes on several popular YouTube channels that have used its content. Many Indian YouTubers are terming the news agency’s actions as extortion, especially because YouTube has a policy of permanently removing channels that receive three strikes during a 90-day period.
Leading the charge against ANI is Mohak Mangal. In a recent video, the YouTuber, who has 4.2 million subscribers, compared ANI’s actions to kidnapping someone and demanding ransom. Soon after, the news agency filed a defamation suit against him. On Thursday, however, hearing the defamation suit, …
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Alakh Pandey and Prateek Maheshwari’s edtech startup will be a first-of-its-kind story from India of a YouTube content platform that has gone on to pull off a public listing.
Indians who are among the world’s largest consumers of free tech products and also significant beneficiaries of free markets suffer from a poor understanding of both technology and accountability. Separately, Aamir Khan breaks a paradigm with a YouTube release.
