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AAPA: 'Training essential for
anti-piracy enforcement'
embers of AAPA, the
Audiovisual Anti-Piracy
Alliance, have briefed
delegates at a Eurojust-Europol-OHIM
seminar on Infringements of
Intellectual Property Rights on the
Internet of the additional threats posed
by more ubiquitous access to higher
broadband speeds throughout the
world and the growing problem of
illegal streaming of pay TV content
which damages rights holders and
providers.
The latest in a series of conferences
organised by the EU Observatory on IP
Infringements (managed by OHIM) and
Europol, and involving Eurojust for the first
time, brought together over 100 delegates
from law enforcement agencies, including the
police, prosecutors and customs bodies, as
well as private sector stakeholders to discuss
the challenges created by the increasing use of
the Internet for counterfeiting and piracy. The
objective of the conference was to increase the
awareness and understanding of public sector
enforcement agents of Internet piracy and to
equip them with the knowledge and skills
required to take effective enforcement action.
Mark Mulready, security director
(intelligence) at Irdeto