October was the month that came Wareztuga two applications of the Android store. The community is known for enabling content viewing and sharing of files that violate copyrights. Fight with the associations that defend the producers have gone on for some years, but the arrival of the mobile devices marks a new chapter in history.
wareztuga and Wareztuga TV Player. These are the names of the two software that came with Google Play, but have been available before through parallel installation. No applications have the official approval of administrators Wareztuga as the TeK found. Still, nothing prevented programmers create a mobile client that enables access to content for the streaming site Wareztuga.tv. In any one of the applications are requested credentials that users use the service to other platforms that access to content can be full. 
Ricardo Pontes is responsible for implementing wareztuga. The idea stemmed from the lack of content Wareztuga on smartphones and tablets, and because the platform is Google’s “most complete, high margin progression and open source,” he told TeK.
Although not official approval of the site administrators, Ricardo Pontes continues to search for a contact. But as revealed, “due to recent problems they had with justice, do not make another contact.” What about possible problems with the law? “When it comes to legal issues not already have some fear that is not the application or I, the developer, to make available the contents displayed in the application,” said Ricardo Pontes. But is this the case? The president FEVIP, GEDIPE and MAPiNET, Paulo Santos, disagrees with this type of argument that has been repeatedly used also by site administrators that make sharing illegal content. For the leader of the associations representing the audiovisual producers in Portugal, the developers of applications are helping to illicit activity. “They are leading the way for the content, although they are not responsible for it. This is complicity,” he said by way of simplification Paulo Santos. Applying Ricardo Pontes is paid, it costs one euro, and differs from Wareztuga TV Player software. The author of this app asked for their answers if kept out of the public sphere, but the information that the application has had between 1,000 and 5,000 downloads is in plain sight on Google Play. There is indeed demand for this type of contents. And the positive reviews are present in the pages of the two software.
Piracy in your pocket
Can these cases be an example of a new trend? Piracy came to mobile platforms?
The leader of the organization considers that the number of applications of this kind are low because the most cases requires an identification of the perpetrators – the type of information that organizations use to move criminal complaints or intimarem administrators platforms with illegal content.
The president believes that MAPiNET technology such as Google and Apple have responsibility from the moment they approve applications with illegal content in their stores, but remember that none of the companies have an obligation proactive. “After being advised that there are applications that violate rules is that they are required to make removal,” explained Paulo Santos to TeK.
In case of non-cooperation, the solution may pass interim measures to the removal of content is made and for someone to be held accountable.Although the case is related to one that is possibly the site of sharing of illegal content more used in Portugal, the truth is that the App Store Play and Google have been a new focus of cases of people who violate the intellectual property of others. And one area where these cases feel is in videogames – the TeK said recently the example of two applications that violated intellectual property of Nintendo.
Rui da Rocha FerreiraWritten under the new Orthographic Agreement
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