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Film, music industries offer cyber copyright guide
LOS ANGELES : The US movie and the music industries have published a guide to help companies prevent copyright abuse on their computers and plan to distribute it to Fortune 1000 companies.
“A Corporate Policy Guide to Copyright Use and Security on the Internet,” requests that companies take steps to ensure their computer and Internet systems are not being utilised for film and music piracy.
The groups – the Recording Industry Association of America and The Motion Picture Association of America, represent the film and music arms of the world’s biggest media conglomerates, including Bertelsmann AG , EMI Group, AOL Time Warner, Vivendi Universal, Sony, News Corp. and Walt Disney.
A Reuters report indicates that the movie and music industries have been aggressive in pursuing copyright infringement litigation against renegade services like Napster.
The groups said they issued the guide to raise awareness at the corporate level of illegal activities that may be taking place on company networks. The guide requests that companies advise employees against copyright abuse on computer systems in the workplace and warned that such unauthorized copying is illegal, can tarnish corporate reputations and increase security risks for computer systems and put organisations at risk of legal liability.
The International Federation of Phonographic Industry (IFPI), the trade body for the record industry worldwide, drafted the brochure for top European companies and is spearheading the effort overseas.
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News TV viewership jumps 33 per cent as West Asia war draws audiences
BARC Week 8 data shows news share rising to 8 per cent despite T20 World Cup
NEW DELHI:Â Even as individual television news channel ratings remain under a temporary pause, the genre itself is seeing a clear surge in audience attention.
According to the latest data from Broadcast Audience Research Council India, television news recorded a 33 per cent jump in genre share in Week 8 of 2026, covering February 28 to March 6.
The news genre accounted for 8 per cent of total television viewership during the week, up from 6 per cent the previous week. The spike in attention coincided with escalating geopolitical tensions involving the United States, Israel and Iran, which have kept global headlines firmly fixed on West Asia.
The rise is notable because it came at a time when cricket was dominating television screens. The high-stakes stages of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, including the Super 8 fixtures and semi-finals, were being broadcast during the same period.
Despite the cricket frenzy, viewers appeared to be toggling between sport and global affairs, boosting the overall share of news programming.
The surge in genre share comes even as the government has enforced a one-month pause on publishing ratings for individual news channels. The move followed regulatory scrutiny of the television ratings ecosystem.
While channel-level rankings remain temporarily out of sight, the genre-level data suggests that when global tensions escalate, audiences continue to turn to television news for real-time updates.
