UK Minister for Intellectual Property Baroness Lucy Neville-Rolfe has launched the Government’s intellectual property (IP) enforcement strategy, highlighting the threat of illegal streaming services and set-top boxes. The strategy document – Protecting creativity, supporting innovation: IP enforcement 2020 – lays out the areas that the government sees as the most pressing priorities, and some of […]
A report by business advisory firm Grant Thornton estimates that digital piracy has caused the loss of 500 jobs to the Irish economy by 2015. The estimated cost to the economy shows retailers suffered losses of circa €320 million in revenues, while the loss to the Exchequer in VAT receipts could be as much as […]
Research carried out for the Australian Screen Association (ASA) on the effectiveness of court-ordered site blocking of pirate sites shows a decline in piracy to target pirate sites, other pirate sites and an uptake in licensed content. The study was undertaken by Dr Brett Danaher, a visiting research Professor of Economics at Carnegie Mellon University […]
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson and Kevin Hart talk great big screen moments in the latest ‘Moments Worth Paying For’ trailer, supporting the efforts of pro-copyright education body the Industry Trust for IP Awareness, for their action-packed comedy Central Intelligence. The exclusive 35” trailer features co-stars Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart in a hilarious piece to […]
The UK High Court has approved an Order requiring the five major UK ISPs to block access to eight sites following an application submitted by the Motion Picture Association (MPA) – the European arm of the Motion Picture Association of America. These sites enable people to search for, locate and access copyright infringing film and […]
Many Zimbabweans have been happily ‘subscribing’ to MultiChoice’s DStv satellite signals from neighbouring South Africa for years. Except their reception equipment and the whole ‘subscribing’ process has been illegal. Harare-based The Standard newspaper (dated May 8th) was full of complaints from subscribers to DStv who were in uproar that local agents and resellers never informed […]
A study published by French anti-piracy body l’Association de Lutte contre la Piraterie Audiovisuelle (ALPA) looking at the illegal consumption of films and TV programmes suggests that one in three French Internet users visit sites dedicated to audiovisual piracy. The study, carried out in collaboration with research firm Médiametrie and
South Africa has a near-neighbour in Zimbabwe where MultiChoice’s DStv South African satellite signals are easily received, and extremely popular. Indeed, there’s quite a local business in Zimbabwe of ‘informal’ DStv agents and installers happy to supply the illegal kit to view South African-targeted programming. Now MultiChoice is getting tough, and has issued a strong […]
The Chairman and ranking member of the US Congress House Judiciary Committee have written to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler voicing their concerns that under the FCC’s proposed rule to boost competition in the cable TV set-top box market, future set-top boxes or their replacements could “purposely be designed to distribute pirated content obtained from sources […]
Internet Australia (IA), the body representing Internet users, has applauded the nation’s Productivity Commission’s recommendation that ‘geoblocking’ must go. “We have consistently argued that geoblocking is fundamentally wrong and that it has resulted in unfair price-gouging of Australian consumers for decades,” said CEO Laurie Patton. IA has used the Productivity Commission’s report to repeat its […]