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Supreme Court No relief given to Netflix web series “Bad Boy Billionaires”.
Netflix promoted the web series “Bad Boy Billionaires” as an “investigative docuseries” that “explores the greed, fraud and corruption that built up – and ultimately brought down – India’s most infamous tycoons”. Subrata Roy of Sahara alleged that the Netflix series was tarnishing his reputation.
Netflix failed to get any relief from the Supreme Court today for its new web series “Bad Boy Billionaires”, which has been put on ice by a court in Bihar. “We are not giving relief. You should not come here,” said Chief Justice Bobde, advising Netflix to go to the High Court if he wants to challenge the order of the Bihar court.
Netflix promoted the web series “Bad Boy Billionaires” as an “investigative documentary” that explores “greed, fraud and corruption – which was produced and eventually brought down – India’s most maligned tycoon”. This is said to be based on the rise and fall of billionaires including Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi and other tycoons accused in various cases.
It was expected to air from today, but had to hit the road after Sahara’s Subrata Roy went to court accusing him of tarnishing his reputation. The court ordered an interim stay on the series, which allegedly uses Subrata Roy’s name.
Appearing for Netflix, senior advocate and former Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi told the apex court that the court had earlier considered such petitions. This was opposed by Subrata Roy’s lawyer Vikas Singh.
The 68-year-old head of the Sahara group is accused of illegally recovering thousands of crores of rupees from investors. They have been asked to refund the principal amount of 24,000 crores and so far about 12,000 crores have been paid. Arrested in 2014, Subrata Roy was in Delhi jail until he got bail last year. He has denied any wrongdoing and the bond scheme has not yet been formally charged.
Mehul Choksi, a diamond trader wanted in India for the PNB scam, had also approached the Delhi High Court with a similar objection, but the court refused to consider his plea. His petition to pre-screen the documentary has also been rejected by the Delhi High Court.
Netflix lawyers have said that the web series contains the story of a diamond tycoon who went to London with his uncle, which was followed by the Punjab National Bank scam. Mr. Choksi has only one or two media interviews in the series and only two minutes are devoted to him.
There is another case against Netflix in Hyderabad on the same issue. Mr. Rohatgi told the top court that Netflix has filed a petition to move the case. The Chief Justice said that he would consider the petition.
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Xiaomi and Vivo Outperform Samsung, Apple Way Down in Rankings
Chinese brands Xiaomi and Vivo were used by 21.9% and 20.79% of Casino Days players from South Asia respectively, and together with the positioned in third place with a 18.1% share South Korean brand Samsung dominate the market among real money gamers in the region.
Cupertino, California-based Apple is way down in seventh with a user share of just 2.29%, overshadowed by Chinese brands Realme (11.43%), OPPO (11.23%), and OnePlus (4.07%).
Huawei is at the very bottom of the chart with a tiny share just below the single percent mark, trailing behind mobile devices by Motorola, Google, and Infinix.
The data on actual phone usage provided by Casino Days, even though limited to the gaming parts of the population of South Asia, paints a different picture from global statistics on smartphone shipments by vendors.
Apple and Samsung have been sharing the worldwide lead for over a decade, while current regional leader Xiaomi secured their third position globally just a couple of years ago.
Striking Android Dominance among South Asian Real Money Gaming Communities
The shifted market share patterns of the world’s top smartphone brands in South Asia observed by the Casino Days research paper reveal a striking dominance of Android devices at the expense of iOS-powered phones.
On the global level, Android enjoys a comfortable lead with a sizable 68.79% share which grows to nearly 79% when we look at the whole continent of Asia. The data on South Asian real money gaming communities suggests that Android’s dominance grows even higher and is north of the 90% mark.
Among the major factors behind these figures, the authors of the study point to the relative affordability of and greater availability of Android devices in the region, especially when manufactured locally in countries like India and Vietnam.
“And, with influencers and tech reviews putting emphasis on Android devices, the choice of mobile phone brand and OS becomes easy; Android has a much wider range of products and caters to the Asian online casino market in ways that Apple can’t due to technical limitations,” the researchers add.
The far better integration achieved by Google Pay compared to its counterpart Apple Pay has also played a crucial role in shaping the existing smartphone market trends.
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