US Justice Department sees threat from piracy services
Brian Benczkowski, deputy attorney general of the United States Department of Justice, issued a warning. The way in which pirated copies are disseminated online is considered by the deputy attorney general to be appalling. Just under ten years ago, individual downloads were the rule, says Brian Benczkowski. Today, however, technologically advanced multinational streaming services take the lead. They also generate millions of dollars in profits.
Through P2P filesharing boomed
Based on their relatively simple and modest roots in the 90s, filesharing at the turn of the century experienced a renaissance. Peer-to-peer technologies, including the now ubiquitous BitTorrent protocol, brought a big problem for the film industry. Twenty years later, BitTorrent still attracts hundreds of millions of users worldwide. But the immediate availability of streams, including movies, TV series, live TV and sports, is now considered one of the biggest threats to copyright owners and distribution platforms.
Brian Benczkowski: Online piracy has changed
This week, the thirteenth law enforcement and industrial law enforcement meeting took place in Washington, DC. Brian Benczkowski has presented his remarks to the US Department of Justice on the dramatic changes in online piracy over the last decade.
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"Robberies have evolved from marketing individual copies of movies, music and software on street corners or offering individual downloads online to technologically advanced, multinational streaming services that generate millions of dollars in illegal profits." Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski.
While online streaming of pirated content is nothing new, the professionalism of content providers and distributors has changed noticeably in recent years. For example, the many illegal IPTV providers pose a new challenge. The investigation is also made more difficult because one can no longer see the server locations due to the content delivery networks such as Cloudflare & Co. If you want to know where the streams go, you must first contact the CDN service provider through a court of law. The lawyers of the MPA can sing a song of it.
Piracy-enabled streaming boxes, which in many cases derive their content from the nature of Benczkowski's services, remain at the top of the agenda. The deputy attorney general also referred to recent charges against eight Las Vegas residents allegedly operating two of the largest platforms in the country.
Robberies bypass judicial authorities
This use of content delivery techniques is a concern of the Department of Defense. This suggests that they will continue to pursue high-impact cases. However, Brian Benczkowski noted that changes to the law or creative legal strategies may be needed to capture the perpetrators.
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The existing laws do not always deal with the behavior that criminals show today. In other words, smart criminals can try to avoid consequences by developing new techniques or security measures to bypass the judiciary. "
Benczkowski believes that prosecution will never be able to solve the problem of cybercrime by law enforcement alone. However, he believes that progress will be made through cooperation and development of relations with foreign law enforcement agencies.
