A report emphasizes that it is "indispensable" to protect the called "conditional systems of access", which serve to personalize the contents that the user receives.

The EU is already provided with a regulation in this sense, but the community Executive wants now to check his functioning and impel the contacts between national and expert governments to put together his experiences.

From the coming into effect of this board in 2007, the Commission has verified that the repression of the piracy against the systems of conditional access it has been carried out "in an unequal way" in the Member states.

In some countries, the representatives of the sector think that the sanctions that apply the national governments are "too moderate" and denounce the "absence of technical knowledge", he adds the document.

Also, they request that there are penalized the persons who possess some system to gain access to the contents of payment of illegal form - as the case of decoders is pirates - an assumption that is not gathered in the current community regulation.

The report reveals that many new types of services exist in full development that are already protected by the board - like for example the videos à la carte, the transmission in alive for Internet or the television mobile - which systems of conditional access use to leak the clients who pay.

On a possible extension of the coverage of the regulation, the study concludes that it is necessary firstly to be provided with additional information relative to the copyright or the exclusivity of transmission of sports events, or on the use of a conditional access for different intentions than to protect the income of the providers.

On the other hand, the report concludes that the development of the cross-border services has remained "very limited", bearing in mind that the board tries to create a domestic market in this area.

With a view to satisfying the million European citizens who reside out of his fatherlands, Brussels also is going to obtain information of the potentials bought for the cross-border offer of audio-visual and cinematographic contents.


(06-10-08)