What measures taken to keep an eye on OTT platforms, SC asks executive

The Best Court docket Tuesday requested the Centre to apprise it of the measures that had been being taken to keep an eye on Over-the-top (OTT) platforms akin to Amazon High and Netflix.

Issuing realize on a plea through Advocates Shashank Shekhar Jha and Apurva Arhatia, a bench headed through Leader Justice of India S A Bobde sought to grasp from the Centre’s recommend what measures had been being taken through the federal government.

The legislation officer spoke back that the federal government was once nonetheless considering the stairs however the bench spoke back that mere contemplation was once now not sufficient and requested him to report affidavit mentioning its reaction.

“We can’t settle for mere contemplation. Everyone contemplates. Record a sworn statement at the steps taken,” the bench, additionally comprising Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian, stated whilst giving the Centre six weeks to put up its reaction.

The plea sought the putting in of a right kind board or establishment to observe and organize content material on other OTT/streaming and virtual media platforms. It stated there’s no legislation or authority at this time to observe the virtual content material, and added that that is ensuing within the courts getting flooded with instances.

The court docket tagged the topic with every other petition coping with the similar matter.