{"id":122323,"date":"2017-11-26T15:30:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T13:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=122323"},"modified":"2017-11-25T19:36:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T17:36:43","slug":"telegram-blocks-taylor-swift-piracy-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/122323-telegram-blocks-taylor-swift-piracy-channel","title":{"rendered":"Telegram blocks Taylor Swift piracy channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google and Apple pressured Telegram into blocking a channel called @top_pop following reports that Taylor Swift\u2019s music was being illegally distributed through it, reported\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/google-apple-order-telegram-to-nuke-channel-over-taylor-swift-piracy-171123\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TorrentFreak<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Channel creator\u00a0Anton Vagin said he received a notification from Telegram that Apple and Google had received complaints from Universal Music over the sharing of Swift\u2019s latest album.<\/p>\n<p>If Telegram did not take action, its app may have be pulled from Google Play and the App Store, stated the report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRepresentatives from Apple and Google contacted us and made a complaint that your public channel @top_pop was violating intellectual property rights by publishing content owned by Universal Music. Unfortunately, your channel is now blocked,\u201d stated the notice.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/201280-the-most-popular-movies-and-apps-in-south-africa.html\">The most popular movies and apps in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google and Apple pressured Telegram into blocking a channel called @top_pop following reports that Taylor Swift\u2019s music was being illegally distributed through it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":102525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[101,25409,25407],"class_list":["post-122323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-piracy","tag-taylor-swift","tag-telegram"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}