AMENDMENT OF THE CABLE TELEVISION NETWORK CAN'T CONTROL PIRACY
The government of India is coming with an amendment in the cable Television Network which was introduced in the Lok Sabha.
According to the bill there is a mechanism for registration of all cable operators and central government empowers to appoint a registering authority for reviewing or granting registration. In my opinion there is no need to amend or to insert any provision for registration of all cable operators because it is already there. The government should provide a provision for registration of every channel which is not being registered/authorised/sanctioned i.e Video Channels, because at present the channels which got approval by the government for downlinking or uplinking are only registered. If we go to back in the history of the cable system we find that the only source for exhibiting or transmitting movies was the VCR for the cable operator in the form of a channel. Therefore a channel which is called a video channel through which the cable operator transmitting movies according to his choice or the choice of the subscriber is not registered with the government. This unregistered channel is the only accused for spreading piracy and creating a big hurdle for stopping piracy in the film industry. Not only this, this particular channel has become a source of unlimited earning of a cable operator because of the advertisements are exhibiting/ transmitting either along with the transmitting movies or on the transmitting movies. There is no stoppage or no control over the income coming through this unregistered channel.