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EC expected to publish anti-piracy plan next week
By Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 23 June 2014
The European Commission is expected to announce a new set of strategies for fighting online piracy next week.
Though, according to Torrentfreak, rather than proposing new legislation at an EU level it is thought the plan will follow the lead of the City Of London Police’s IP Crime Unit in the UK, which has mainly been using existing copyright laws to step up its fight against piracy.
Often by putting pressure on advertising agencies, domain registrars and payment providers to more carefully monitor websites they provide services to. The aim is to cut off websites that prolifically infringe copyright from both their user-base and their revenue streams.
It is thought the EC’s anti-piracy document will have ten proposals in it. It will also set out plans to step up cooperation between anti-piracy authorities across the European Union, and beyond, in a bid to cut off audience and income for piracy operations in as much of the world as possible.