Content theft sites pushing pirated movies, music and TV programs made nearly a quarter of a billion dollars last year from advertising, according to a new study from the Digital Citizens Alliance.
The report, Good Money Gone Bad: Digital Thieves and the Hijacking of the Online Ad Business, found that the 30 largest piracy sites each stand to make more than $4 million a year in ad revenue.
Download the full report here.
As in past years, CASBAA gave its views to the US Trade Representative as that organization began its annual review of intellectual property policies and practices around the world. Most of the situations in CASBAA’s Asian markets have not radically changed, though the rise of online piracy is a growing concern as the region’s broadband networks are built out. The submission expresses grave concern about development and export of Android-based pirate “black boxes” that make available whole bouquets of pay-TV programming, usually streamed from China to other markets in the region. On the good news side, it lauds the Indian government for its cable digitization policy, and notes that the Vietnamese government’s liberalization of its pay-TV regulations in May 2013 has resulted in a smooth market situation there.
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Along with CASBAA members, companies in other parts of the world are coping with quantum leaps in piracy of television content. A relatively small number of highly profitable pirate websites play an important role in building and promoting the pirate eco-system, and European courts have recently found justification to order blocking of some of these sites. In a legal info-sharing webinar, eminent legal practitioners from Europe gave CASBAA members a bit of the history and described current developments in judicial site blocking injunctions.
Download the powerpoint presentation from this webinar here.
Relatively few governments in the Asia-Pacific region require that consumers be given the right to terminate pay-TV contracts in the event of changes in channel line-ups. A CASBAA survey of member operators produced some interesting insights into which regulators impose requirements in this regard, and which have less restrictive approaches.
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CASBAA is joining with media and telecom companies in Hong Kong to recommend a series of changes in the HK SAR’s Broadcasting Ordinance and Telecom Ordinance. In keeping with the global trend toward lightening restrictions on licensed TV (as competition with unregulated internet-based OTT and pirate offerings becomes ever more intense), the Hong Kong group is recommending that the government relax some of the current outdated restrictions on advertising, content regulation, and cross-media ownership (among other things).
The full recommendations will be released soon; in the meantime here for information is a background survey on cross-media ownership prepared by CASBAA. CASBAA’s view of the overall issues with unbalanced regulation of licensed television and unlicensed OTT is contained in our publication “A Tilted Playing Field,” which can be accessed here.
CASBAA is joining with media and telecom companies in Hong Kong to recommend a series of changes in the HK SAR’s Broadcasting Ordinance and Telecom Ordinance. In keeping with the global trend toward lightening restrictions on licensed TV (as competition with unregulated internet-based OTT and pirate offerings becomes ever more intense), the Hong Kong group is recommending that the government relax some of the current outdated restrictions on advertising, content regulation, and cross-media ownership (among other things).
The full recommendations will be released soon; in the meantime here for information is a background survey on cross-media ownership prepared by CASBAA. CASBAA’s view of the overall issues with unbalanced regulation of licensed television and unlicensed OTT is contained in our publication “A Tilted Playing Field,” which can be accessed here.
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This paper provides background information on the practice adopted by some governments of requiring “essential content” to be shared among TV operators. It includes a table showing the content sharing lists of governments in Europe and Asia, and takes account of latest developments in Malaysia and Singapore.
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This paper provides background information on the practice adopted by some governments of requiring “essential content” to be shared among TV operators. It includes a table showing the content sharing lists of governments in Europe and Asia, and takes account of latest developments in Malaysia and Singapore.
Full Article here
