Delhi High Court puts restraining order on unauthorized broadcast of England vs India series

The Delhi High Court on July 30 (Thursday) stopped 39 unauthorized websites from streaming the upcoming series between the home team England and visitors India in violation of the broadcasting rights which are being held by official broadcaster Sony Ten Network channels.

The Three Lions will take on India in the rescheduled fifth Test match slated to start on July 1 (Friday) in Edgbaston, Birmingham. After the red-ball match, the focus will shift towards the white-ball series. To note, the Men in Blue will face England in a three-match T20I series and the same number of ODI matches.

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“Defendants No. 1 to 39 (f1.mylivecricket.live and others) are restrained from, in any manner, hosting, streamlining, reproducing, distributing, making available to the public and/or communicating to the public or facilitating the same on their websites through the internet in any manner whatsoever, any cinematograph work, content, program, and show or event in which the Plaintiff has copyright,” said the court in its interim order dated June 29.

“Defendants No. 40 to 57 (distribution platform operators) and 92 (unknown person) are restrained from, in any manner to host, stream, reproduce, distribute, broadcast, make available to the public and/or communicate to the public any unauthorized and unlicensed reproduction or broadcast on the local channels or through other means of various copyrighted content, including but not limited to the matches of the said sporting events through cable network, the court added,” the statement added.

As mentioned above, India will first take on England in the final Test match. Skipper Rohit Sharma has been ruled out of the match with senior pacer Jasprit Bumrah to lead the Indian side. England team has also announced its playing XI for the match with the wicketkeeper-batter Ben Foakes missing the game after testing Covid-19 positive. Veteran pacer James Anderson makes his return to the line-up after regaining match fitness.