At a global conference of regulators and business execs in Singapore this week, a keynote speech by AETN All Asia Networks MD Louis Boswell described two things that have to be done to stem consumers going online for illegal downloads and streams of video material: the industry needs to continue to find new ways of delivering high quality content to consumers in the way they want to consume it, and governments need to take regulatory action to send the clear message that piracy is wrong. “At the moment many regulators in this region are simply signaling that they don’t want to fight and that is a huge mistake,” said Boswell. “The onus is on our industry to innovate and be better than pirates, but without a strong legal framework to protect our intellectual property we will fail.” Read the full text of the speech here.