Press Releases & News
- Amsterdam – September 16, 2011
Industry debate promoted by AEPOC & Intellect confirms challenges for content protection in connected devices - London – September 12, 2011
Content protection: connected TV’s big challenge - Brussels – September 6, 2011
Successful anti-piracy activity in Portugal – Belgian court rejects appeal against imprisonment and compensation - Brussels – July 7, 2011
Police arrest another six suspects to stop illegal distribution of Pay-TV content - Brussels – June 21, 2011
AEPOC: Joint police and industry action brings down card sharing pirate in record time - London – April 20, 2011
AEPOC says TV manufacturers need to secure content - Brussels – January 25, 2011
AEPOC Announces Association's New Executive Director - Brussels – October 25, 2010
Pay-TV pirates sentenced to up to 18 months in jail and payment of more than 2 million Euros in damages - London – November 30 to December 1, 2010
AEPOC endorses Digital TV Summit 2010 - Cannes – October 4, 2010
MIPCOM 2010 - AEPOC Standpoint from President Rousseau: "Piracy destroys trust in the ecosystem" - Amsterdam – September 29, 2010
AEPOC to extend Association's resources to strengthen fight against audio-visual piracy - Brussels – February 17, 2010
Philippe-Olivier Rousseau elected as new AEPOC President - Geneva – November 16, 2009
Uneven level of law enforcement activity in the EU creates safe harbours for pirates - Brussels – July 20, 2009
AEPOC increasingly alarmed about understanding of piracy in the EU - Prague – April 21, 2009
AEPOC Extends Anti-Piracy Focus to Eastern Europe - Brussels – December 29, 2008
AEPOC intensifies consultations against piracy with the Commission - Paris – November 11, 2008
EC confirms importance of CA-Directive and wants to extend scope - Stockholm – July 3, 2008
Sweden to extend its so far minimalist implementation of the CA-Directive - Budapest Agenda – June 24, 2008
Speech of President Jean Grenier at DTVCEE congress - Update: AEPOC at Digital TV CEE congress, June 24 2008, Budapest,
– next AEPOC BOD and OGA meetings, June 12 2008, Stockholm - Rome – April 17, 2008
AEPOC demands substantial amendments of the European CA Directive - Brussels – January 23, 2008
AEPOC: Attentive law enforcement and tighter legal environment to effectively narrow down living space for pirates - Dublin – November 8, 2007
AEPOC: Shaping the audio-visual future - for the benefit of plurality - Lisbon – July 16, 2007
EU to strengthen co-ordinated actions against digital piracy putting in front dialogue with the industry - Munich – April 19, 2007
AEPOC: "Accepting private piracy equals to opening the Pandora Box" - Geneva – February 12, 2007
AEPOC: "Adequate legal protection marching at the same speed of technological
progress is crucial for the media sector" - 4th AEPOC Anti-Piracy Symposium, Geneva 29th January 2007
Building the framework of the content everywhere reality:
Taking rights protection to the next level - 4th AEPOC Anti-Piracy Symposium, Geneva 29th January 2007
Invitation to AEPOC free of charge conference & Association's 10th anniversary celebration - Paris – December 11, 2006
AEPOC suggests end-to-end anti-piracy view of all stakeholders in the digital value chain - Lausanne – October 6, 2006
AEPOC: "CA and DRM technologies are important accelerators of the EU Information Society" - Brussels – September 4, 2006
AEPOC Update - Overview of up-coming activities, public appearances and events - Paris – April 28, 2006
AEPOC: "Piracy is the number one enemy of the EU information society threatening digital growth and media convergence" - London – December 8, 2005
Broadcast and IP Broadband industries to team up against piracy - Brussels – November 2, 2005
Piracy in Europe requires worldwide co-operations and precise EU-legislation - Venice – September 30, 2005
AEPOC-President Jean Grenier receives award for successful combat against piracy - Baden-Baden – July 5, 2005
Anti Piracy Battle in Europe gains Momentum - London – May 30, 2005
AEPOC: "Piracy is never an opportunity" - Geneva – April 8, 2005
European and Canadian Anti-Piracy Associations meet in Geneva - Brussels – December 21, 2004
AEPOC expects piracy problem to worsen 2005 and after - Amsterdam – October 27, 2004
2nd AEPOC European Anti-Piracy Symposium:
Media industry in agreement on main approaches to piracy of audiovisual services - Amsterdam – October 27, 2004
AEPOC grows to 33 members - Vicenza – October 7, 2004
AEPOC Workshop in Vicenza denounced piracy of audiovisual services - Brussels – September 20, 2004
2nd AEPOC European Anti-Piracy Symposium will discuss status of audio-visual piracy in Europe - Brussels – July 1, 2004
AEPOC defines anti-piracy standards for the audiovisual services industry in Europe - Bratislava – June 29, 2004
AEPOC re-elects Jean Grenier President - Paris – April 16, 2004
AEPOC targets piracy of audiovisual services in the enlarged E.U. - Brussels – December 16, 2003
AEPOC defines anti-piracy agenda for 2004 - Vicenza – October 13, 2003
1st AEPOC European Anti-Piracy Symposium sets the course in the fight against piracy of audiovisual services - Venice – September 2, 2003
AEPOC President Jean Grenier at E.U. ministerial seminar "The circulation of European works of art inside the E.U.: support mechanisms and new technologies" - Lisbon – June 13, 2003
AEPOC announces next steps in the fight against piracy of audiovisual services - Brussels – May 7, 2003
AEPOC welcomes E.U. Commission's explicit analysis of threats to European media business and proposes further steps against piracy of electronic pay-services - Munich – March 31, 2003
AEPOC expects E.U. Commission report on 1998 Conditional Access Directive to be issued soon - Brussels – January 7, 2003
Technological Development has overtaken EU Legislative Framework against Conditional Access Piracy - Amsterdam – October 25, 2002
AEPOC identifies urgent need for action in the fight against Pay-TV piracy - Madrid – June 28, 2002
Spanish pay-tv platform Sogecable recently implemented complete swap of smart-cards - London – February 22, 2002
Strengthening the power of Europol to resist cyber-crime in the audiovisual sector - Brussels – December 17, 2001
Weakness of the Directive 98/84/EC - Warsaw – September 6, 2001
Creation of a transnational effort and lobbying to defeat decoder piracy