Responding to a consultation paper from the Singapore Ministry of Law, CASBAA “warmly welcomed” proposals to empower courts to issue injunctions that would prohibit Singaporeans from accessing the most egregious pirate websites. The steps are badly needed, CASBAA said, as “the rapid growth of flagrantly infringing websites in recent years has eroded the business of the pay-TV industry.” Legitimate content providers trying to serve the Singapore market – online and offline – are “impeded by competition from unregulated, untaxed offshore pirate websites that pay nothing to creators, artists, writers, musicians, and all the people who make the industry function.” The Association hoped for early enactment and bringing into operation of the new judicial enforcement mechanism.
Read the CASBAA submission here