Some copyright-infringed websites (Photo: baodautu.vn)Le Quang Tu Do, Deputy Director of the Broadcasting and Electronic InformationAuthority, admitted that many websites have been violating copyrightregulations in the country by uploading videos without permission.
The website creators are so cunning that they set up their servers overseas tohide traces. Every time an illegal website gets banned, a new one immediatelyemerges and appears unrelated to the banned one.
By late June, authorities have detected and banned over 500copyright-infringing websites, but this amount is outpaced by thesites that replace them.
Pham Hoang Hai, Director of the Vietnam Digital Content Copyright Centre,revealed that illegal websites fall foul of copyright regulations bylive-streaming unauthorised videos, or edit videos and re-upload themon their platforms.
"According to Media Partner Asia, copyright infringement has becomeincreasingly common with 15.5 million unauthorised users in 2022, causinga loss of 348 million USD to the video industry," he said.
He also estimated that unauthorised users would hit 19.5 million by 2027,equivalent to a loss of 456 million USD, if the issue is left unchecked.
Nguyen Thanh Van, Deputy Head of VTV's Inspection Committee, underscoredthat Gap nhau cuoi nam is one of VTV's most pirated programmeswith over 30,000 unauthorised videos on Facebook and 8,000 on Youtube.
He also said copyright infringement has caused a lot oftrouble for national television as football tournament organisers arelikely to revoke the copyright granted to VTV once they detect theirtournament aired on other platforms without permission.
"If we have the copyright revoked, it is difficult to buy the rightsin the following years due to reputational damages," hesaid.
The situation is worse for K , the television channel granted the copyright tothe English Premier League (EPL).
The channel has detected nearly 4,000 unauthorised links broadcasting thetournament in just one month with viewership of millions.
EPL organisers asserted that the severity of copyright infringement related tofootball broadcasting in Vietnam is second only to China in the world.
Nguyen Quang Dong, head of the Institute for Policy Studies and MediaDevelopment, suggested two solutions for video owners to defend themselvesdigitally.
The first solution is that the owners report their cases to copyrightauthorities, such as the Copyright Office under the Ministry of Culture, Sportsand Tourism and ask the authorities to fine their violators.
The second solution involves the use of digital tools, which are believed to bequicker and more effective. One candidate for the job is DNS blocking.
Celine Boyer, Head of the Cyber Security at Canal Group, shared thisview, saying that a French law enacted in early 2022 has allowed internetservice providers to actively block copyright-infringed websites.
That means Canal has the authority to block all illegal websites accessible toFrench users, no matter which country their servers are located.
She recommended the culture ministry develop a tool directly connectingvideo owners and internet service providers to help the former present evidence tothe latter more easily, enabling instant blocking.
Nguyen Ngoc Han, General Director of the Thu Do Multimedia, suggested the useof Sigma DRM to encrypt copyright-protected videos on the Internet and theuse of Finger Print to remove illegally live-streamed ones./.
VNA
