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Google terms court ruling on Hotstar app as temporary

New Delhi, July 20-2023, By IBW Team

Google terms court ruling on Hotstar app as temporary

Google yesterday said an Indian court’s directive ordering the company to charge a lower four percent in-app payment on Disney’s streaming service in the country, Hotstar, was a temporary measure until the court proceedings play out.

Disney in India has gone to court in what is the latest and most high-profile challenge to Google’s policy of imposing a “service fee” of 11-26 percent on in-app payments.

The service charge was introduced after an antitrust directive ruled against Google’s earlier 15-30 percent fee and forced Google to allow third-party payments.

A court in Tamil Nadu on Tuesday said Google should receive a lower four percent fee for in-app purchases from Disney+ Hotstar, and cannot remove Disney’s app from its India app store, in what is a significant challenge to Google’s payments business model.

“The order is interim in nature, and the temporary four percent figure is simply a fee that the developer will pay to Google each month while these legal proceedings play out,” Google said in a statement, according to a Reuters report filed from New Delhi and Bengaluru.

Google will need to comply with the court directives until it is overturned or modified.

Disney, which runs the popular Disney+ Hotstar streaming app in India, has challenged Google’s new billing system in a court in India’s Tamil Nadu state.

Its lawyers had argued Google was threatening to remove the Hotstar app if it didn’t comply with new payments system.


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