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BigFlicks was announced last year as a part of Reliance Entertainments BIG strategy where it was getting into all forms entertainment be it radio, social networking and movie downloads and soon to be rentals. So on one end BigFlicks seems to be competing with Rajshri media on the NRI segment which caters to movie downloads and [...]

1) What does Reliance Entertainment think of Piracy and plan to combat it? (Given the fact that they own Big Adda and BigFlicks.com)

2) Is there a possibility of syndication/integration of content among separate platforms like BigAdda, BigFlicks and Reliance Communications (Mobile)?

3) Will BigAdda Open Its API in the near future?

Both movie and music industry in India have been the sufferers due to the technology revolution that hit the world with piracy and easy free downloads available to the masses. Soon the rates of CD’s started to fall and one saw that the roadside hawkers shifted their business from selling food to selling cd’s and [...]

Screen Digest predicts that online revenue from movie downloads in the United States and Western Europe will reach about $1.3 billion in 2011. $720 million of which will be generated in the United States and $572 million in Western Europe. Most of this amount will be garnered by the studios and content owners. Service and [...]

UPDATED: An Interview with Kamal Gianchandani, COO, on the DVD Rental business and its prospects can be read here.
We had written about BigFlicks before as well. Now the Reliance movie entertainment portal has launched but not as a DVD rental portal as thought earlier but as a movie download and streaming service.
So lets [...]

Well the dvd rental business has shown the first signs of consolidation. Seventymm has acquired 100 per cent equity of the New Delhi-based Madhouse for an undisclosed amount. This is probably because of the fact that Madhouse had a good network in the delhi and gurgaon belt and also had a good team backing it. [...]

Not too long ago we posted about Big Adda the social network by Reliance Entertainment which was asking users to choose their favourite logo. (Its already got over 41000 votes and has also started blogs for its users).
So its not only social networking thats big on Reliance’s agenda, its also home entertainment through DVD rentals (Dvd [...]