This definitely is not good news.Media regulation by TRAI is just a way for the government to have control over the content which is being distributed and make cash from private players.Though I sincerely doubt it would be able to do so efficiently.

This could be the worst move any developing nation could ever make, at times when everywhere in the world the new media is very much let to organise itself, only in india something like this happens. I guess the old timers in the government are still stuck in socialist days and want their hand in everything that gets into or goes out of the country. Banning a television for showing adult programs at midnight is something so silly that it only increases the face value of the forbidden fruit. I mean seriously if someone is so stuck on watching few topless models at midnight, let him watch, what harm is he gonna cause that way. How could people put up with the idea that the govt should direct us what to watch and what not. I’m getting too tired of this.

This is what happens when creative companies dont work together. lets not blame the government. The FICCI Frames conference doesnt even look at mobile, it does internet !! There are 3 defunct groups that claim to represent the “interests of the mobile community” but are actually investments in entrepreneurial egos. No one really represents the interests of content providers, we dont have a code of conduct, we dont have a self regulation mechanism and we dont have one body we all agree to work in, why should we complain and blame the government?

Small companies will sell their soul for valuation (quite rightly so, its a matter of survival), big companies (the few there are) couldnt care less as they cant do to edgy stuff anyways. Only in print which has a history of working together and coming together in times of crises does the government feel scared of fingering (see the Bombay times and its pictures, most of us wouldnt sell wallpapers like that). But internet, broadcasting and mobile communities are divided up in narrow walls and as teh british did, when we are divided, they will rule so quit complaining and either come together in one place or suffer the consequences!!!!