Recently, information has emerged that the Pirate community TVs already cover 6% of the communications sector. Piracy, in general, is a potential growing phenomenon in Angola, warn experts, who highlight the pay-TV segment as a cause for concern. Technicians advance that this evil brings disastrous consequences for the country's economy and recommend combat through a multidisciplinary force, which encompasses several organizations. Angola has already taken the first steps in this direction.
According to Manuel Purificação de Carvalho (Head of the Department of Support to the INACOM Board of Directors), the famous “community televisions” have been illegally spread across the country, especially in the peripheries, which entails “enormous” damage to the Angolan economy. This information was advanced in a webinar held this week in Luanda, said that combating this phenomenon requires a joint effort.
Without giving numbers, the technician refers that illegal television subscription brings "enormous" damage to the Telecommunications sector and to the country in general. "The Government fails to collect a set of taxes, while at the same time generating large losses in terms of employment, for example". He stressed that the fight will only become effective if there is synergy, as the National Institute of Communications (INACOM) has implemented.
While subscription television piracy is growing in African countries, particularly in Angola, in Europe this type of piracy is more sophisticated with the expansion of the so-called IPTV (Internet Protocol Television), television transmission via the Internet, who claims to be responsible for Content Protection of the Portuguese telecommunication group NOS. Invited to address the theme “Strategy to Combat Piracy and New Trends”, Pedro Bravo warns of this phenomenon as the new threat of piracy, showing data of its reality.
