WILL THE DIGITAL SERVICES ACT REACH ITS POTENTIAL TO BE A GAME-CHANGER?

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Will the Digital Services Act reach its potential to be a game-changer?

For years – long before the advent of the pandemic – content creators, rights holders and broadcasters have highlighted the detrimental effect online piracy has on the audiovisual industry. The global pandemic has created new opportunities for pirates. The concerns shared by Europol about criminals’ agility to adapt their pirate IPTV offers to national COVID-19 lockdown measures illustrates one of the problems which industry faces; i.e., the lack of an effective legislative framework able to counter fast-changing criminal practices.

It’s encouraging to see some governments around the world starting to respond. For example, Singapore is undergoing the most comprehensive review of its copyright regime in 30 years. The United States has implemented a new law – The Protecting Lawful Streaming Act 2020. The Act classifies streaming video piracy as a felony, with the associated penalties and fines. However, it’s the European Union’s (EU) Digital Services Act (DSA) that has the potential to be a game-changer.

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