Jun 15, 2026 · 16 min · 8 segments
The FIFA World Cup is off to a lousy start, Elon Musk is the world's first trillionaire, national security is used as a rotten excuse. And ZEE5 pulled a dirty one. Catch up on this and the most…
I mean, I, I had-- I got my US and Canada visa lined up, but in the end, I decided not to even watch this World Cup.
I'll come to that in a second.
But the news of the week that we're going to start with is that Zee5 is trying to...
I don't even know how to put this, actually.
799 rupees for three months with the promise that you can watch the World Cup on three devices.
Literally 24 hours before the start of the World Cup, Zee5 quietly changed the plan to say that you can watch the tournament only on one device.
And this was not a mistake.
This was official.
It was reflected on Zee5's website.
And people who had already paid 799 rupees for three devices, well, they also face the same limitation.
I don't know if Zee5 thought that people will not notice this very small but significant change, but boy, were they wrong.
People noticed.
They went to social media.
There was massive outrage.
Massive outrage on social media.
After which Zee5, almost very clearly in response to this outrage, reversed that change.
But some users are still reporting that they do not have that limitation reversed.
I mean, I, I had-- I got my US and Canada visa lined up, but in the end, I decided not to even watch this World Cup.
I'll come to that in a second.
But the news of the week that we're going to start with is that Zee5 is trying to...
I don't even know how to put this, actually.
799 rupees for three months with the promise that you can watch the World Cup on three devices.
Literally 24 hours before the start of the World Cup, Zee5 quietly changed the plan to say that you can watch the tournament only on one device.
And this was not a mistake.
This was official.
It was reflected on Zee5's website.
And people who had already paid 799 rupees for three devices, well, they also face the same limitation.
I don't know if Zee5 thought that people will not notice this very small but significant change, but boy, were they wrong.
People noticed.
They went to social media.
There was massive outrage.
Massive outrage on social media.
After which Zee5, almost very clearly in response to this outrage, reversed that change.
But some users are still reporting that they do not have that limitation reversed.
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