Piracy remains a major threat for the movie industry, MPA Stan McCoy said yesterday during a panel session at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
After McCoy praised the collaboration between the MPA(A) and Russian authorities in their fight against online piracy, the President and Managing Director of the MPA’s EMEA region noted that pirates are not standing still.
McCoy stressed that the devices themselves, and software such as Kodi, are ‘probably’ not illegal. However, the addition of copyright-infringing pirate add-ons turns them into an unprecedented piracy threat.
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