piracy

The lawsuits allege that the suspects engaged in a multi-state scheme to sell pirated set-top boxes to the unsuspecting public.

The Philippines is no longer in the priority watchlist of European Union (EU) in terms of threat to its intellectual property rights (IPR), a biennial report of the European Commission showed.

More than half of corporations in the Philippines are still using unlicensed software in their business operations, according to the latest BSA Global Software Survey in 2018.

During its recent budget hearing at the Senate, OMB chief Anselmo Adriano said the agency is a storage-based regulatory office and is powerless when it comes to piracy committed over the Internet.

The Optical Media Board said pirated materials have migrated from optical discs to USBs, SD cards, internal, and external storage devices.

In 2017, the government captured a total of P8.2 billion worth of goods, with the bulk of the items comprising of consumer electronics.

Globe Telecom and the international group Coalition Against Piracy (CAP) have come out in support of a Senate bill aiming to deter online piracy in the country by blocking Internet websites that illegally distribute copyrighted material like videos, music, and gaming.

The amount of goods seized over the nine-month period already represents an 840-percent increase over the seizures of the National Committee on Intellectual Property Rights (NCIPR) during the same period in 2017.

ABS-CBN has sued a Canadian firm called Dazcon for selling set-top boxes that enabled buyers to illegally access hundreds of ABS-CBN?s copyrighted movies and TV shows.

The average user in the Philippines has increased their use of illegal streaming websites by 74% between 2016 and 2017.