The General Meeting of Members of the Sygnal Association will be held on March 20, 2024. The agenda provides for: 1. Opening of the General Meeting of Members and Election of the Chairman of the General Meeting; 2. Ascertaining that the General Meeting of Members has been duly convened, is capable of adopting resolutions, and […]
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Training for Prosecutors from all over Poland
In 2024, we have expanded our educational activities for law enforcement agencies with specialized trainings prepared for Prosecutors. The training series is organized by the Department for Cybercrime and Computerization of the National Prosecutor’s Office in partnership with Sygnał Association. Nearly 300 Prosecutors from all over the country took part in the trainings held in […]
Effectiveness of Audiovisual Content Infringement Notifications – Sygnał Association Report
The year 2024 could be a breakthrough in the standardization of intellectual property protection mechanisms in Europe. Increasing awareness of the value of copyright translates into the implementation of increasingly sophisticated mechanisms for responding to illegal distribution of content online. The European Commission’s recommendations, as well as an ongoing study of their application throughout 2024, […]
Completion of the Educational Cycle for the Police Units
701 police officers were trained as part of the educational cycle on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Sygnal Association. On November 28-29 in Piaseczno, the last lecture and workshop meeting on the protection of intellectual property and the fight against TV theft on the Internet took place, under the honorary patronage of […]
Sharing in Bydgoszcz
Policemen from the Bydgoszcz city police station fighting economic and corruption crime detained a 44-year-old man running an illegal TV signal sharing business. The Bydgoszcz resident had made sharing a permanent source of income for himself. He took from 20 to 30 zlotys for a monthly digital TV package, when an honest customer had to […]
Three People Linked to Ogladaj.to Pirate Site Detained by Police
The service illegally distributing movies, TV series and entertainment programs on the Internet operated for at least three years. Film distributors and program broadcasters estimate losses of at least PLN 15 million Malopolska police officers report. The investigation has been conducted by the Regional Prosecutor’s Office in Lublin since mid-2020. At the beginning of October […]
Three People Detained for their Pirate Services
Sizeable success in the fight against pirate streaming services. In the case of a portal illegally disseminating movies and series, police officers from economic crime untis in Lesser Poland Voivodoships, under the supervision of the District Prosecutor’s Office in Lublin, detained three people. The estimated damage caused to members of the Sygnal Association is about […]
More than 500 Police Officers Trained
The eighth meeting of the educational series on protecting intellectual property and combating TV theft on the Internet, organized by Sygnal in cooperation with the Police Headquarters and provincial police headquarters, was held at the Police School in Piła from October 10-13. This time, the training was attended by more than 100 policewomen and policemen […]
Sygnał at European Commission and EUIPO Conference in Alicante
We feel honored to have been invited to participate in the conference “Stepping Up the Fight Against Online Piracy of Sports and other Live Events” organized by the European Commission and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) on October 9-10 in Alicante. The association was represented at the conference by Sygnal President Teresa Wierzbowska. […]
On Blocking Pirated Sports Broadcasts at PIKE
– Introducing a mechanism to quickly block sports broadcasts on pirate sites in Poland is a necessity, argued Sygnal’s representatives Teresa Wierzbowska and Karolina Makowska at the 50th PIKE International Conference and Exhibition in Lodz. – Web blocking, dynamic blocking, live blocking are already used in Western European countries. Taking down illegal sports broadcasts and […]