“The best way to fight piracy is to fight not only criminal associations but also those who do business by stealing intellectual property. Unfortunately, a necessary step, although probably unpopular, will be to impose fines on users of Pezzotto, to users of applications that can be easily downloaded from the Android and Apple stores but also from Amazon portals, users of the many sites easily accessible from search engines (which still do not collaborate as they should)”.
Agcom Commissioner Massimiliano Capitanio wrote this on Linkedin: “Perhaps it is not yet clear that, soon, sanctions of 150 to 5,000 euros will arrive, and that is, as with all fines, a step we would like to avoid but what we have made necessary, especially because those who do business illegally make unsuspecting users believe that nothing will happen (wary user…). Meanwhile, Spain is also moving in the same direction. A common front in Europe can only do good.”
