European Union States Bitcoin and Tor Encourages Property Infringement In a cooperative investigation with multinational consulting firm Deloitte, the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) recently discovered that anonymity technologies including Bitcoin and Tor are encouraging infringement of property and illegal reproduction of content.
After a so-called thorough analysis on 25 different infringing business models, EUIPO Executive Director Antonio Campinos claimed that Tor and Bitcoin are providing online criminals and their customers an infrastructure that is undetected from the authorities.
“[infringement] more and more relies on new encrypted technologies like the TOR browser and the bitcoin virtual currency, which are employed by infringers of IPR to generate income and hide the proceeds of crime from the authorities,” said Campinos.
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