Actions under the “Follow the money” campaign are paying off! The number of offers to sell access codes to paid pirate websites continues to decline. This is possible thanks to the cooperation of the companies associated in Sygnal with Polish and foreign sales and advertising platforms.
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PLN 1 million in compensation for sharing
The District Court in Wieliczka has sentenced a man for illegal sharing of the signal (control word sharing) of Canal + and Cyfrowy Polsat TV platforms over the Internet. The operators received 526.3 thousand zloty as a compensation.
EC public consultation on the protection of intellectual property rights
The Sygnał Association submitted comments to the European Commission in the framework of public consultations of a document of the Roadmap type concerning the protection of intellectual property rights (Intellectual property action plan).
The General Meeting of Members of the Sygnał
On 17 June 2020. The General Meeting of Members of the Sygnał Association once again entrusted Teresa Wierzbowska with the function of President of the Board. Due to the coronavirus epidemic, the meeting scheduled for March did not take place. Due to the common safety, with precautions taken, yesterday’s meeting was attended mainly by representatives of member companies.
Thank you for # stayingathome and watching legal VoD
“Thank you for # stayingathome and watching legal VoD” – this is how the leading Polish VoD platforms: Ipla, Player and TVP VOD want to thank all of those who choose legal sources during the quarantine and watch movies, series, concerts and other audiovisual content. The campaign is organized by the Sygnał Association.
Cardsharing. Raids in 5 places in Poland
Policemen from the Cybercrime Unit of the Provincial Police Headquarters in Lublin carried out official activities in a case concerning the activities of a group of people involved in the illegal provision of digital television signals using non-authorized devices, used for cardsharing.
Legal changes and the future of digital sector development
In Warsaw on March 9-10 the 12th TIME Economic Forum was held. Teresa Wierzbowska, president of Sygnał, took part in the discussion about the digital tax, the code of digital services and audiovisual and copyright directives.
In Poland pirate VOD services are losing their popularity
In Poland, piracy is on the defensive. In an interview with Wirtualnemedia.pl Teresa Wierzbowska, president of the Sygnał Association dealing with the problem of TV/video piracy in Poland, argues that the data concerning Australia do not find analogies on our market.
Detention for three months for cardsharing
Police officers fighting economic crime from the Provincial Police Headquarters in Olsztyn arrested a 49-year-old man suspected of cardsharing. For several years now, an inhabitant of the Mrągowo poviat has been illegally sharing access to the programs of paid digital platforms.
The nationwide training program “piractwo.tv” has been successfully completed!
On Februar 13, 2020 in Katowice Regional Police Headquarters we completed the nationwide programme of trainings addressed to the police and prosecutors called “piractwo.tv”. We trained 782 police officers and prosecutors of 16 voievodoships.