[x-pubpol] Poland: "Internet Group"

[Joly MacFie]

Wikileaks Dec 2009 via Marcin Cieslak


¶ <http://wikileaks.org/cable/2009/12/09WARSAW1211.html#par6>6. (U)
The government has formed an "Internet Group" that
brings together the ministries of Justice, Interior, Finance,
and Culture with internet service providers (ISPs) to target
and coordinate enforcements efforts against internet piracy.
The Business Software Alliance's (BSA) representative in
Poland praises the increasing efficiency of the GoP's IP
protection efforts and its increasing focus on combating
internet piracy.  That new focus led to the October take-down
of a massive, illegal file-sharing service receiving over two

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million hits per month.  Police arrested two men operating
the service and seized the company's property.  The Ministry
of Culture is also working to amend the Corporation Law to
enable the GoP to capture more effectively corporate and
business software piracy and peer-to-peer piracy cases.
 ¶ <http://wikileaks.org/cable/2009/12/09WARSAW1211.html#par7>7.  (U)
The GoP's report describes a stepped-up training
regime.  One hundred and forty one judges were professionally
trained on IP law in 2009.  In a separate program, another 60
judges will attend a new one-year post-graduate program in
Intellectual and Industrial Property Law in 2010.  Polish
police and the Internet Group have created a dedicated
"Portal for Knowledge Management" and a specialized training
guide - "Methodologies in Disclosing and Combating
Intellectual Piracy on the Internet" - to support prosecutors
and judges in internet piracy cases.  At the same time, the
report documents increased criminal proceedings, convictions,
and imprisonments.   Discontinued or terminated cases are
down, and sentencing more often results in imprisonment.


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