Joining Forces and Reaching Agreements Is Key in the Fight Against Piracy

The roundtable was kicked-off with the presentation of the report ‘How voluntary agreements among key stakeholders help combat digital piracy’, by its author, Nigel Cory, the expert and analyst of Commercial Policy of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF)*. Among the main conclusions of this study, he states that although “there is no single, simple solution to combat this scourge» of Internet piracy, voluntary agreements between the main stakeholders – rights holders, access providers, advertising managers or domain name registrars – «can serve as an important complement to the efforts, both in legislative and other areas, made by governments”, playing a key role in the fight against Internet piracy.