WIPO Expands Anti-Piracy Efforts with Payment Provider Blocking Program
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Ernesto Van der Sar
Summary
WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization), a UN agency, is expanding its anti-piracy efforts with a new program called "WIPO Alert Pay." Building on its existing advertising blocklist system (WIPO Alert) launched in 2019, the new initiative aims to cut off financial flows to pirate sites by partnering with payment providers. The program seeks to prevent payment processors from facilitating transactions for websites that host or distribute infringing content, thereby targeting the revenue streams that sustain piracy operations.
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In 2019, WIPO launched an advertising blocklist that lets member states flag infringing sites.
This list can then be shared with advertisers, who can use it to make sure that revenues don't end up going to these sites.
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