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The Philippines highlighted major progress in curbing online piracy and strengthening cooperation with e-commerce platforms in its latest submission to the United States Trade Representative (USTR) for the 2025 Notorious Markets for Counterfeiting and Piracy Review.

Globe Telecom has called on lawmakers in both chambers to prioritize the passage of site-blocking legislation that would authorize the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) to direct Internet service providers to block piracy websites.

Viva Holdings and its 37 subsidiaries signed on Tuesday, April 15, the E-Commerce Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to strengthen protection of its content and retail products across digital platforms, making it the first entertainment-driven company to fight piracy and counterfeiting online through the agreement.

The 2024 Review of Notorious Markets for Counterfeiting and Piracy identified 38 online markets and 33 physical markets that are reported to engage in or facilitate substantial trademark counterfeiting or copyright piracy in 2024.

The study found that Filipinos are 33 times more likely to encounter cyber threats on popular piracy sites than on legal film or TV sites.

The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) said it has issued requests to disable the following sites: SFlix sites (sflix.to, sflix.se, and sflix.is) and MyFlixer sites (myflixerz.to, myflixertv.to, and myflixer.today).

The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) has issued its first site-blocking request against 11 domains and subdomains under the YTS brand, one of the top piracy websites in the world.

The total intellectual property (IP) infringing goods seized in January to December last year reached an estimated market value of P26.86 billion, surpassing the previous record of P24.90 billion registered in 2021.

The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) said the top source for intellectual property violations was the online space, particularly on Facebook, other websites, Shopee, Instagram, and Lazada.

42% of the intellectual property rights violations in the country from March to June 2020 were piracy activities, including illegal streaming and illegal reproduction of copyrighted content.