Is the tide turning against streaming pirates?

John Groom explores the legal treatment of illicit set-top boxes and highlights the increasing enforcement successes achieved by rightsholders

John Groom, Baker McKenzie

Sales of illicit set-top boxes, designed toenable users to watch copyright-protected content for free, have steadily increased in recent years. Rightsholders have fought back strongly against this behaviour, committing significant resources to investigate, identify and expose wrongdoers, and pursuing a variety of civil, criminal and commercial measures around the world.