A draft amendment to the Copyright Law proposed by 18
Legislators with the aim of combating setup boxes related
infringements was passed on April 16, 2019.
As the IP Office's press release issued on the same day
commented, the content industry is severely harmed due to
unlicensed setup boxes or apps that facilitate users to access
infringing audio/visual content by offering them easy-to-navigate
interfaces that assemble illegal sources of copyrighted content
gathered on the Internet.
In a bid to curb the parasitic economy growing around these
setup boxes and apps, a new Article 87(1)(8) is now introduced to
the Copyright Law, which reads:
"One who intends to facilitate the public to access
publicly broadcast or transmitted contents that infringe on
copyrights, and knowingly (a) offers the public a software that
collects IP addresses of the said infringing contents, (b)
instructs or assists the public to use, or presets path for the
public to access the said
