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Media

New Piracy Figures and Dangerous IPTV Adverstisements – Sygnał in the Media

We encourage you to read articles in which Sygnał’s representatives talk about new measures by EU institutions to prevent piracy of live sports events, comment on the results of the latest Deloitte report and warn against advertisements of pirate IPTV services on Facebook. – ‘’The European Parliament is working on blocking illegal sports broadcasts within […]

Conferences

Conference in Gdynia, Meeting on the Report, and Workshops in Mielno

A scientific conference at the Naval Academy in Gdynia on ‘ICT Crime XXI’, a meeting on the latest piracy report and further training for police officers – these are Sygnał’s recent activities. The scale of video content theft on the Internet, losses to the market and methods of combating it were discussed by Sygnał’s President […]

Conferences

At PIKE on the Latest Piracy Figures

We have obtained the latest data on the audiovisual content piracy problem, including the the television content, in Poland. Presentation of the key findings of the report based on the provided data was prepared for Sygnal by Deloitte, and presented during the Polish Chamber of Electronic Communications conference held on May 23, 2023, in Sopot. […]

Events

Summary of the Past Year Activities and Discharge of the Management Board

On May 11, 2023, the Annual General Meeting of Sygnał’s Members took place, during which summarized activities of the Association from the past year were reported. Lifted pandemic restrictions allowed the Association to resume most of its activities. These were conducted as a part of the Sygnał’s 20th anniversary celebrations postponed from year 2021. The […]

Conferences

International conference on blocking pirate domains

26 April is International Intellectual Property Day. On this occasion, ICC Poland – the Polish National Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce – and CANAL+ Poland, in cooperation with the Signal Association, organised an international meeting in Warsaw on cross-industry cooperation in the field of intellectual property protection.

Trainings

More police garrisons trained

120 police officers from Economic Crime Departments from police units in the Warmińsko-Mazurskie, Podlaskie and Wielkopolskie provinces were trained in April this year at a workshop organised by Sygnal in cooperation with the Police Headquarters. The two-day meetings were held at the Police College in Szczytno and the Police School in Piła. During the training, Signal members discussed the specifics of TV content theft crimes on the internet, presented the association’s recent achievements, and described the extent of cooperation with law enforcement agencies and its effects.

Events

Golden Badges for successes in the fight against piracy awarded

The Anti-Piracy Coalition has once again honoured police officers from police units that have particularly distinguished themselves in the past year with their effective fight against music, TV and computer piracy with Golden Badges. The Departments for Fighting Economic Crime of the Provincial Police Headquarters in Olsztyn and the District Police Headquarters in Ostrów Wielkopolski were honoured for their fight against infringements of intellectual property rights. A special award for educational cooperation went to Superintendent Iwona Klonowska, Commandant-Rector of the Police Academy in Szczytno.

Police Operations

Owner of zalukaj.vip temporarily arrested. Pirate site disappeared from the web

Police officers from the Central Office for Combating Cybercrime have brought an end to a major pirate site offering films and series. Two men were charged with illegal distribution of copyrighted works. The originator and owner of the service was temporarily arrested. The total amount of damage resulting from the operation of the service is estimated by the wronged parties at several million zlotys.