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The Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance (AAPA) Seeks to Expand EU Pirate Site Blocking to Browsers and VPNs


The Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance (AAPA) released a 2025-2029 manifesto, requesting the EU to enable stronger anti-piracy protections.

The European anti-piracy group, whose members include Sky, BT, Irdeto, the Premier League, LaLiga, Viaplay, Wiley, and Vodafone, has just released a new manifesto in which it calls for concrete measures. “After years of laying the groundwork to combat online piracy it’s time for EU policymakers and beyond to fully acknowledge that decisive, targeted measures are needed at the European level. The most broad suggestion calls on the EU to propose new legislation that builds on insights it received though the DSA, while also implementing some of the key measures from its earlier recommendation to combat live-streaming piracy.

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