NDTV

New Delhi, Mar 9: On a day the mandatory sharing bill was passed in parliament, the battle for the telecast rights continues.

Nimbus has reiterated that it wants DD to encrypt its feed and says it is willing to share the terrestrial feed but it will not share its feed with DTH.

Harish Thawani, head of the Nimbus, said the bill was "detrimental" to Nimbus' interests as regards to conditionalities on Direct-to-Home transmission and encryption of signals.

He said the measure would be a one-time solution for such issues with relation to all sports in the future, not just cricket.

They will put their proposal in front of the committee formed by the government to look into the matter and hoped for a favourable response.

Referring to DTH, Thawani said it was a rich man's medium and the poor should not be made to subsidise for it.

He said Nimbus and BCCI had no problem with the common man watching the matches on the terrestrial network but wanted the DTH signals to be encrypted, as it would be piracy if they went into neighbouring countries.