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How to recognize a pirate site - 8 signs of scammers

Recommends the initiative "Clear Sky", taht aims to develop legal audio-visual product in Ukrainian segment of the internet and fight against the distribution of content that violates intellectual property rights

About a month ago, the Ukrainian anti-piracy initiative "Clear Sky" provided instructions on how to recognize a pirate site. And last week, similar recommendations were presented about the pirate site Torrent Freak. The recommendations of the "Clear Sky" are, rather, b2b character: they refer to the list of sites-pirates, compiled for advertisers, and to Content ID.

2015-11-24

Competitive trade-off: how the industry problem unites brands

We are analyzing what made “1+1 Media Group”, StarLightMedia, “Media Group Ukraine” and the “Inter Media Group” join their efforts in the “Clear Sky” initiative.

2018-02-12

Cyberpolice opened proceedings against illigal OTT-service

The media group "1+1 Media" appealed to the Department of Cyberpolice of the National Police of Ukraine with a statement about the illegal relay of the channels of the group by the online resource tvoetv.in.ua. The group estimated its losses in 1 million 148 thousand UAH. Cyberpolice opened proceedings under Article 176 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (violation of copyright and related rights).

2016-02-05

Ukraine is not even in the top ten: the rating of the most pirated countries is published

World authority in digital piracy MUSO published a report for 2017 year. According to the report, global piracy grew by 1.6% over the past year. 300.2 billion visits to sites that provide illegal content were identified.

2018-03-27

More Than 35,000 ‘Pirates’ Targeted in Swedish Lawsuits This Year

A decade ago, Sweden was a favorable "haven" for Internet pirates. The homeland of Pirate Bay, the birthplace of the Pirate Party and the place where illegal downloading was normal things. Today is not

2018-09-21

2019-11-04

Pirate Butterfly Effect

Piracy is a crime implying the intentional use of someone else’s intellectual property for enrichment.

Each author holds rights to his or her creation. Content generation takes considerable resources—financial and human alike.Labour, equipment, and office rental costs are rather high. The problem of piracy makes is almost impossible to recoup the costs. As a result, creative industry investors are unwilling to risk their money and don’t fund Ukrainian projects.

Why paid content is no deceit but a common practice of the present

Legal content is uploaded to the platforms with a good player for viewers to watch even the highest-quality video without any problems. Since legal content creators produce HD and 4K videos it is a significant advantage. You won’t have to watch an ad before a film or a series on such platforms.

How Ukraine and the world battle piracy?

In the 2000s, the online world saw the first wave of anti-piracy effort. Guided by the idea that demand controls supply, the government cracked down on users of pirate websites.So, in the USA and France, the Three Strikes system was introduced.

How everyone can combat piracy

It doesn’t matter whether a person is involved in the film industry or security agencies or not. To overcome piracy, two easy steps must be taken:

1. Respect yourself and the film industry, and not to consume low-quality unauthorized content.

2. Raise awareness of intellectual property rights violation being a criminal offence, while consumption of legal content ultimately benefits everyone: the viewer, the producer, and the country.

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