Pirates of the Net 

Challenges and Solutions for Digital Content Distribution

Internet piracy is an issue for both content and service providers. Content providers suffer from lost revenue. Service providers are overwhelmed by the huge data volumes generated by P2P file sharing and one-click file hosting. The ubiquitous and free-of-charge availability of high-quality content is a major stumbling block for the launch of commercial content-distribution schemes.

This session will start with an overview of the contents being exchanged in today's Internet to show the extent of the problem. There is an ongoing and controversial discussion about how to deal with Internet piracy. We will provide different perspectives and also talk about possible solutions using commercial, technical, legal, and regulatory control mechanisms.

Bobby Chang COO RapidShare AG	Eric Nooter CTO Scarlet Belgium	Carsten Rossenhövel Managing Director EANTC	Hendrik Schulze CTO ipoque	Christian Sommer Director, EMEA Anti-Piracy Operations Warner Bros. Entertainment	Simon Aspinall Managing Director Internet Business Solutions Group Service Provider Cisco	Jean Berbinau Secretary General Regulatory Authority for Technical Measures ARMT France
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