Last digital headache from China for American companies: hacking “ export ”

Digital pirates in China become more sophisticated and block their services at the national level to avoid local police, and American copyright holders would like to speak to the director.

The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA), which represents various American entertainment industries, from Hollywood to the game, calls on China to do more to stop these operations, which have been nicknamed “export” hacking.

IPA called practice and appointed notable offenders in a submission last week to the US trade representative. The submission was part of the annual examination of the commercial representative of the compliance of China to the obligations of the World Trade Organization (WTO), reports Torrentfreak.

“Although significant hacking on the Chinese domestic market remains a lasting challenge, the export of hacking content, hacking and hacking services (PDS) from China to foreign markets is a growing and just as disturbing global trend,” said submission.

The report highlights several of the worst offenders, including the Internet TV platform and the exporter of Flujotv confidentiality devices (formerly Magistv), which targets Latin America; The Loklok application, serving Southeast Asia; And the Gimy website, popular in Taiwan.

IPA stressed how hackers change their tactics and are looking for new escapes to exploit. Another example provided by the group was the video game rescking.

“Instead of traditional methods that involve the technical cracking of game software for duplication and complete distribution, game hacking in China is increasingly characterized by the rehabilitation of original games with non -substantial revisions,” said the report. He added that changes could be as simple as making slight adjustments to the source code of games.

In addition, the comments of IPA paint a table of the copyright application of China as slow, inconsistent and bureaucratic. For example, even after the initial sanctions against offenders, rights holders must often file new complaints for repeated offenses. Electronic commercial platforms must generally set up specific items, rather than closing entire stores. And geo-blocked services can work completely under the radar.

“This allows operations based in China to escape application measures by simply blocking their services from access to China or by serving a different set of content to users who access these services from China,” wrote IIPA.

The group now calls for specific reforms to solve the problem, including more resources and better coordination for the National Copyright Administration of China (NCAC), the simpler complaint procedures and the clearer rules for the content platforms downloaded by the user.

They also want China to apply its laws against all the country’s hacking operations in the country, even if the services are not accessible locally and to improve cross-border cooperation so that geo-blocked hack does not pass through the mesh of the net.